cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic. In Q1 2020, VinFast was the fifth best selling car brand in Vietnam. On 25 February 2020, it was reported that VinFast vehicles were spotted in South Africa for field tests at Kakamas in the Northern Cape Province and in Cape Town. On 20 July 2020, the company has gone to manufacturing ventilators, based on open source information provided through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), for patients who have a hard time breathing due to COVID-19 with reported donations made to Singapore, Russia and Ukraine. On 10 September 2020, VinFast announced that a loss of VND 6.6 trillion ($284 million) in the first half of the year. In December 2020, VinFast has released preliminary images of a pickup truck being developed weeks after the Lang Lang testing centre was purchased. Other vehicles in development included a three-door hatchback, two different coupe-type SUVs, a small SUV, a four-door coupe, a couple of people movers and electric scooters. According to the Intellectual Property Office of Vietnam, the patents for these vehicles are set to expire on 14 January 2024. According to Reuters on 30 April 2021, unnamed sources claimed that VinFast planned an SPAC based funding in the United States. VinFast's CEO could neither confirm nor deny these plans. On 28 May 2021, it was reported that the company's IPO will be delayed due to SPAC scrutiny. On 27 July 2021, parent Vingroup announced that Michael Lohscheller, the CEO of Opel, had been appointed CEO of VinFast Global. Five months later, on 27 December 2021, it was announced that Lohscheller had resigned the position. On 30 September 2021, VinFast reported that Cerence software will be used for its electric vehicles as an intelligence voice assistant. On 25 December 2021, Vinfast delivered the first batch of 100 VF e34 electric crossovers to Vietnamese customers at VinFast's manufacturing complex in Hai Phong. The VF e34 marks VinFast's first EV model and the first ever electric vehicle to be manufactured and sold in Vietnam. On 6 January 2022, reports emerged that VinFast plans to build new EV plants in Germany and the United States as part of the company's plans to retire production of gas-powered vehicles and transition fully to EVs by late 2022. On 29 March 2022, Vinfast announced it would locate its first North American auto plant in North Carolina's Chatham County. Headquarters moved to Singapore On