Michael C. Battaglia
Analyst · ROTH Capital Partners
All right. Great. Thanks, Vitalie, and good afternoon, everyone. We certainly appreciate you joining us today, and we have several developments to discuss. But before we dive into the financial performance for the second quarter, I want to take a moment to welcome several new members to the Blink leadership team, each of whom brings critical experience and capabilities that align with our strategy to establish Blink as a profitable technology-driven leader in EV charging. We began our personnel changes in February when we introduced Chris Carr as our new Senior Vice President of Sales and Business Development, and Chris and his team are already achieving meaningful progress expanding our sales footprint and win rate and which is certainly evidenced in our Q2 revenue results. Additionally, I'd like to welcome Michael Bercovich, who joined Blink on June 23 as our new Chief Financial Officer. Michael brings over 20 years of global experience leading finance and accounting organizations through periods of significant growth and transformation. He is a strategic, operationally focused leader with a proven track record of driving value creation. Over the course of his career, Michael has successfully raised and deployed over $250 million in capital through venture, private equity, family offices and institutional investors. In his short tenure, he has already introduced a new level of financial discipline and accountability to Blink. Also joining Blink recently is Harmeet Singh, our new Chief Technology Officer. Harmeet joined Blink through our recent acquisition of Zemetric, which I'll touch on shortly. As the Founder and CEO of Zemetric and in his previous roles, Harmeet has been a pioneer in EV charging innovation. His prior leadership roles at Shell and Greenlots have equipped him with deep industry knowledge that will be instrumental as we continue to advance Blink's technology platform in alignment with our BlinkForward strategic road map. In Europe, we recently promoted Alex Calnan to lead our operations across the region. Alex previously oversaw our U.K. market and is succeeding Miko de Haan. These appointments reflect our commitment to building a results-oriented, aggressive and future-looking leadership team to accelerate Blink's transition to a profitable EV charging company powered by innovation, operational discipline and customer-centric services. Some of these leaders have only been with us for a few weeks, yet they're already making a tangible impact across the organization. Now turning to our second quarter results. As we mentioned on our first quarter call in May, after a slow start for product sales in the early months of 2025, we began to see momentum pick up as we entered the second quarter. With that return to product momentum, combined with the continued strength of service revenue, our second quarter results showed strong sequential growth. In fact, in Q2, we achieved solid growth across the business with total revenues growing 38% sequentially, product revenues growing 73% when compared to Q1 of 2025. Services revenue experiencing another strong quarter, growing 46% year-over-year and 11% compared to the first quarter of '25 and other revenues growing 47% year-over-year. On the product side, 73% growth in sequential revenue was primarily driven by strong demand for our DC fast chargers and Level 2 Series units. As I just mentioned, we began seeing signs of demand improvement at the start of the second quarter, and that materialized across April, May and June. Record growth in services revenue reflects increased demand for our charging and network services in both Europe and the United States. We continue to see strong opportunities to identify, build, own and operate profitable charging sites with an emphasis on DC fast charging. This trend is evident in energy distributed across our networks. During the quarter, Blink delivered a record 49 gigawatt hours of energy, representing a 66% year-over-year increase. Turning to Slide 5. You'll see the consistent growth trajectory of our charging revenue over the last several quarters from Q2 2024 through Q2 2025. Service revenue reached $11.8 million in the second quarter, up 46% year-over-year and increasing 11% sequentially from Q1. This performance reflects higher charger utilization, growth in our portfolio of Blink-owned assets and importantly, increased contributions from DC fast chargers. In fact, revenue from Blink-owned DC chargers increased by more than 300% in the second quarter of 2025 versus prior year, driven by increased utilization and a higher number of units in the field, totaling approximately 150 in the U.S. Turning to Slide 6. I want to provide an update on our progress to reduce operating expenses under the BlinkForward initiative. Our focus on operating discipline and capital efficiency is designed to preserve liquidity while allowing us to invest in high-impact areas that drive both customer value and financial performance, and we are already seeing measurable impact. Of note, as Michael Bercovich will cover in a few minutes, we did incur largely onetime noncash charges of $16.5 million during the second quarter. This amount includes noncash charges related to a write-off of inventory and other asset impairment as well as an increase in the reserve for doubtful accounts receivable. However, and this is important, we achieved a 22% reduction in compensation expense during the second quarter -- excuse me, during the second quarter, and our second quarter operating expenses include approximately $8 million in nonrecurring expenses. These expenses will be eliminated in future quarters with the completion of our previously announced workforce reduction and the scaling down of outside consulting engagements. Our focus remains on aligning our cost and cash burn structures with our long-term objectives, driving operational efficiency and positioning the company to realize consistent revenue growth and eventual profitability. Turning to Slide 7. As part of our strategic evolution, in July, we announced our acquisition of Zemetric, a charging infrastructure company with hardware and software charging solutions that address fleet, multifamily and commercial applications. As we mentioned on last quarter's call, Blink identified a critical gap in our product portfolio. We were missing a viable offering for price- sensitive market segments. Among its other capabilities, Zemetric brings an intelligent and interoperable AC Level 2 product, which immediately fills that gap. The single plug Zemetric L2 chargers are expected to achieve UL certification in the coming weeks and reach volume production in October. In short, we identified a deficiency and we addressed it while accelerating time to market. In addition, the Zemetric software platform brings new capabilities to Blink in our network. Their technology driven by AI was designed with a fleet-first approach that simplifies integrations and helps fleets to lower their total cost of ownership. It also features advanced load management capabilities that combine fleet charging with grid services, smoothing out charging loads on the grid so customers can avoid expensive infrastructure upgrades. Finally, both the Blink platform and Zemetric platforms support interoperability using open standards, which helps to make integration more seamless. Along with Harmeet joining as our CTO, we are pleased to welcome Bonnie Datta, who joins Blink as Senior VP of Global Commercial Operations; and Kapil Singhi, our new Vice President of Hardware and Firmware Engineering. Slide 8 highlights another significant development. On July 17, 2025, we entered into a nonbinding term sheet with Axxeltrova, a private equity firm in the U.K. to form up to GBP 100 million special purpose vehicle, or SPV, to accelerate EV infrastructure deployments in the U.K. under the Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure, or LEVI program. Blink has already secured multiple contracts with local councils. This SPV structure enables us to deliver the equipment and services required under the LEVI program. We are currently negotiating the terms of a definitive agreement with Axxeltrova. This agreement aligns with our strategy to leverage non-dilutive off-balance sheet capital and underscores our commitment to profitability and capital efficiency, which are core tenets of the BlinkForward framework. And on Slide 9, and in a very important milestone that we announced a week ago, Blink recently resolved the uncertainty around our Envoy subsidiary with an amendment to our previously planned merger agreement that provides a clear path forward. In short, we reached an agreement with the former shareholders of Envoy, our wholly owned car sharing services subsidiary, which released Blink from its payment obligations and liability in exchange for stock and performance-based warrants. The amended agreement provides that our sole remaining payment obligation is satisfied and that Blink will be released from all claims and liabilities following the issuance of $10 million in shares of company common stock and warrants exercisable for shares of company common stock with an aggregate notional value of $11 million divided into 3 tranches with vesting conditions based on defined stock price achievements. And these defined stock price achievements are warrants valued at $2.5 million that vest if Blink's stock trades at $1.70, another $2.5 million vests at $2.10 and the last $6 million vests at $4.85. Each share price milestone must be achieved for 7 consecutive trading days, and the warrants will expire 20 months after their issuance date. We're very pleased to have reached this agreement with Envoy shareholders, and we would like to reiterate that Blink remains debt-free. With that, I'll now turn the call over to Michael Bercovich, our new CFO, to provide further detail on our financial performance for the quarter. Michael?