500 units of Lordstown's full-size battery-electric pickup trucks have been homologated and are now leaving the Foxconn EV Ohio plant for customer delivery.
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, but it will gradually accelerate as supply chain constraints get resolved.
The truck started life in another company with a very different design. Development for the range-extended electric vehicle Workhorse W-15 began in 2016. In May 2017, automotive press got their first chance to see and test drive the W-15 at an event held in Long Beach, California. The truck had an all-wheel drive powertrain with 460 hp coming from two traction motors — one each for the front and rear axles.
In autumn 2019, Steve Burns, the CEO of Workhorse, left to help found automotive startup Lordstown Motors. In exchange for a 10% minority stake in the latter company, the W-15 design was licensed to Lordstown in November 2019. After that point, Workhorse ceased any further development of the W-15 prototype.
In January 2021, a prototype Endurance caught fire and was destroyed ten minutes into its first test drive. Details of the incident were not released to the public until February 2021. In March, Hindenburg Research, an investor which bets against Lordstown stock, published a report alleging that company had falsely inflated preorder numbers to increase investor confidence. The report included additional details about the fire obtained from a police report.
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