At a valuation of $2.4 billion, EV startup Canoo is going public an effort to raise enough money so that it could help to bring its first electric vehicle, a VW microbus-style van.

It was first uncovered a year ago, to market.On Tuesday, the company declared that it was merging with Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp IV, an alleged blank check unique reason for obtaining company.

Thus, Canoo will turn into a trade on an open market company recorded on NASDAQ under the new ticker CNOO.

It's a similar kind of reverse merger move that hydrogen trucking company Nikola pulled off recently to open up to the world and that EV startup Fisker is at present attempting to execute.As it intends to offer its EV on a membership just premise, Canoo is unique insofar when it goes into creation in 2021, and it needs to make other vehicle cabins which will use similar underlying “skateboard” platform.

Canoo is additionally the most recent company to take advantage of abrupt financing free for all in the electric vehicle startup space, which has seen new cash go to China's Li Auto, Karma Automotive, and XPeng, and others.Krause, a previous CFO at both Deutsche Bank and BMW, in June stepped down as director of Canoo in after shifting away from the CEO job a year ago.

Krause left his post as CEO only a couple of months before he and Canoo were sued by his significant other for harassment, discrimination, wrongful termination, and breach of contract.