Blink Charging Co

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Stockholders and Board of Directors of

Blink Charging Co.

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Blink Charging Co. and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive loss, changes in stockholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2023, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2023, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”), the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2023, based on the criteria established inInternal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and our report dated March 18, 2024 expressed an adverse opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting because of the existence of material weaknesses.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Critical Audit Matters

The critical audit matters communicated below are matters arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matters below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matters or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.

Business Combination

Critical Audit Matter Description

As described in Note 3 to the financial statements, the Company acquired Envoy Technologies, Inc. in April 2023. This acquisition was accounted for as a business combination. We identified the evaluation of the acquisition-date fair value of the intangible assets acquired as a critical audit matter.

The principal consideration for our determination that the evaluation of the acquisition-date fair values of the intangible assets acquired was a critical audit matter is the high degree of subjective auditor judgment associated with evaluating management’s determination of the fair values of the acquired intangible assets, which is primarily due to the complexity of the valuation models used and the sensitivity of the underlying significant assumptions. The key assumptions used within the valuation models included prospective financial information such as future revenue growth and an applied discount rate. The calculated fair values are sensitive to changes in these key assumptions.

How the Critical Audit Matter was Addressed in the Audit

Our audit procedures related to the evaluation of acquisition-date fair values of intangible assets acquired included the following, among others:

Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets Impairment

Critical Audit Matter Description

As described in Notes 5 and 6 to the financial statements, the Company recognized goodwill and other intangible assets impairment charges of approximately $89.1 million and $5.1 million, respectively, in the statement of operations during the year ended December 31, 2023. We identified management’s impairment analysis as a critical audit matter.

The principal consideration for our determination that the evaluation of goodwill and other intangible assets impairment was a critical audit matter is the high degree of subjective auditor judgment associated with evaluating management’s determination of the fair values of each reporting unit and the discounted cash flow model used in management’s assessment. This led to a high degree of auditor judgement, subjectivity, and effort in performing procedures in this audit area.

How the Critical Audit Matter was Addressed in the Audit

Our audit procedures related to the evaluation of reporting date fair values of goodwill and other intangible assets included the following, among others:

/s/ Marcum LLP

Marcum LLP

We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2014.

New York, NY

March 18, 2024