Foreign investors typically like "local" skin in the game. It is not about the shared investment, but the experience of dealing with disclosure issues (8-K's)but the experience in fillings of material data.
The finances of being in the fuel cell and electric vehicles arena are burdened with the obstacles of start up costs, retooling and building a fueling infrastructure. As the article below illustrates even large well established companies are over whelmed. https://www.teslarati.com/porsche-mission-e-electric-vehicle-investment/ The expectations that NEAH has some how failed is ludricus.