Kandi Technologies Corp. said in a letter to shareholders that it stands by the revenue figures in its Securities and Exchange Commission filings. However, the Chinese maker of electric cars, go-karts and other vehicles acknowledged discrepancies in charts in those SEC filings that compared 2009 and 2010 unit sales for all of its product lines. It attributed the errors to “new accounting employees.”
Kandi did not directly address the question of how and where it sold the roughly 3,700 electric cars that it reported selling over the past two years. Sharesleuth’s investigation found that dealers in the United States — the company’s primary market — sold well under 1,000 of the vehicles..
Kandi said in its letter that it sells its vehicles to Chinese export agents, distributors and other middlemen, and that it had no knoweldge of — or relationship with — the dealers that market those vehicles to retail customers.
“To the best of our knowledge, these distributors through their dealer networks distribute our vehicles throughout the world,” the company said.
