** Shares of the renewable energy co SPI.O jump 20% to
$12.85 in premarket trade
** Phoenix Motorcars, which was recently acquired by SPI
Energy unit, delivered its second all-electric shuttle to the
City of Santa Cruz urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nACSd4mg5a
** The all-electric zero emission shuttle bus will serve the
Santa Cruz trolley, replacing their existing wooden trolleys and
helping to promote the City's sustainability goals
** Separately, SPI Energy names Wenbing Chris Wang as senior
vice president of finance to support Phoenix Motorcars unit and
Solar Juice IPO urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nACSWwjnfa
** Stock has gained more than five-fold YTD, as of last
close
(Reporting by Arundhati Sarkar in Bengaluru)
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