U Power Limited Reports 1st Half of Fiscal Year 2023 Financial Results.

SHANGHAI: U Power Limited (Nasdaq: UCAR) (the "Company" or "U Power"), a vehicle sourcing services provider with a vision to becoming a comprehensive EV battery power solution provider in China, today announced its unaudited financial results for the six months ended June 30, 2023.

Mr. Jia Li, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company, commented, "In the first half of fiscal 2023, we made considerable progress on the key objective of promoting the sales of commercial electric vehicles and the development of battery-swapping business models through the communication of industry insights with numerous domestic and international partners. This move helps us to customize a clearer growth plan for scaling our core business. We devoted ourselves to completing our U.S. initial public offering in a timely manner, which caused certain impacts on our financial performance. So, we actively expanded the export business of new energy vehicles with overseas partners following our listing on the Nasdaq in April 2023. We established a strategic partnership with Quantum Solutions Co., Ltd. in Japan and will provide battery-swapping vehicles for the Japanese urban express transportation market. We also entered into business cooperation with SCR Asset Management Group in Portugal, jointly exploring the sales of battery-swapping electric vehicles and two-wheeled electric motorcycles in Portuguese-speaking countries. Additionally, we partnered with Zhongneng Lithium Battery Technology Taizhou Co., Ltd, a Chinese company engaging in the research and application of lithium energy storage products, to jointly promote energy storage business based on the battery-swapping model worldwide. To strengthen our market position and enhance our competitiveness, we are committed to technological innovations to continuously develop and improve our proprietary UOTTA technology. As such, investment in research and development remains our top priority. Our UOTTA technology is currently undergoing adaptation for use in commercial electric vehicles through collaborations with major auto manufacturers in China, and we have entered into cooperative agreements with two car manufacturers to jointly develop UOTTA-powered EV models by adapting selected EV models with our UOTTA technology."

Mr. Li continued, "We continue optimizing our business structure and have made profound improvement to our internal management system. We focus on our research and...