Lordstown Motors Somehow NOT Dead, Builds 2 Trucks
Against all odds, the Lordstown Endurance is rolling off the line.
Against all odds, the Lordstown Endurance is rolling off the line.
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GM sold its 5% stake in Lordstown on the open market – what should you do now?
Depending on who you ask, Lordstown Motors is usually one of two things. It’s either the most credible of the many electric pickup startups out there and its use of in-wheel electric motors is an inspired plan to create more flexible, efficient assembly processes that truly free vehicle designers to design … [continued]
Lordstown Motors’ electric pickup truck will use the same “Tesla Batteries” from LG Chem found in the Model 3 and Model Y, and it’s making an RV, too!
Workhorse spinoff Lordstown Motors teased its new fully electric truck, dubbed the Endurance, in a new video showcasing its 6.2 million square foot factory in Lordstown, Ohio. The truck takes the lucrative design of the Workhorse W15 truck and shapes it for commercial customers. The company expects the new Endurance to be the first fully electric truck built in the US specifically for commercial customers.
The Lordstown Endurance is an American-made all-electric pickup truck with 4 in-wheel motors that use technology licensed from Elaphe, 600 horsepower, a stump-pulling maximum torque of 4,400 ft-lbs, and a range of 250 miles. If it looks pretty much like a standard pickup truck, that’s by design.
Lordstown Motors is pushing to build 30 pre-production versions of its Endurance electric pickup truck before the end of the year. It expects to build 20,000 of them in 2021.
We’re getting to the point where electric trucks and true SUVs (on actual truck platforms) are nothing new. We still haven’t seen a single customer-owned Cybertruck after years of anticipation, but Rivian and Ford both have normal electric truck offerings in customer’s hands and there’s a Hummer EV (in both … [continued]
A recent press release from Lordstown announced that its Endurance pickup has finally gotten required regulatory approval. According to the release, 500 units of full-size battery-electric pickup trucks have been homologated and are now leaving the Foxconn EV Ohio plant for customer delivery. This is a slow start to production, … [continued]