![]() The market is full to the brim with electric pickups now, and every one of them is better than the Endurance, at least on paper. What is certain is that Lordstown’s (or Foxconn’s) trucks are not the holy grail that they promised to be anymore. ![]() It would be interesting to watch how things will unfold from here. Now Lordstown Motors can use this data to improve the Endurance’s performance over-demanding and treacherous conditions. The race provided valuable insights about the battery pack, software, and technology. The story reads a little different in the Nikkei Asia report, which quotes Foxconn’s CEO as saying the trucks are made “in cooperation with Lordstown.” This suggests those trucks are pretty much Foxconn trucks. The Lordstown Endurance didn’t have enough juice to make it without a charging method in the remote area. “ Thanks to our collaboration with Foxconn, our pre-production vehicles are rolling out of assembly and into diverse testing environments,” reads the Facebook post. The Lordstown Endurance's resurrection news was backed by a picture shared on Facebook on the official Lordstown account, featuring several white-painted Endurance trucks on the production line. Foxconn revealed this at their annual tech day last October when they presented three EV prototypes. Although Foxconn has various partnerships within the car industry, the Taiwanese company has also big ambitions to build its own electric vehicles. According to Foxconn’s chairman Young Liu, the electric pickup will begin deliveries “in the second half of this year.”įoxconn announced they will also build Fisker cars at the plant they bought from Lordstown Motors, so this is one of those “win-win” situations. ![]() The truck produces a combined 440 hp, thanks to its four motors, and is. Now it turns out this was not such a bad move after all, as Lordstown is back on track with Endurance manufacturing. The Lordstown Endurance is unique among electric pickups and EVs as a wholein that it features in-wheel hub motors. The last time we’ve heard from Lordstown, the new CEO Dan Ninivaggi announced they would sell the factory to Foxconn in a push to maximize efficiency. It’s nothing other EV startups haven’t already encountered, but in the case of Lordstown Motors, it meant the money stream has run dry. Financial hurdles compounded with CEO Steve Burns and CFO Julio Rodriguez's resignations after revealing the company needs more funding to keep Endurance alive. There’s been a lot of drama for Lordstown Motors, proving not every EV startup finds it easy to take on Tesla.
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