Deliveries begin to Lordstown Endurance customers
If we can believe what we read, Lordstown Motors has overcome the next hurdle to become a true car manufacturer. The electric truck its announced company endurance pickup truck has received homologation certificate from EPA and California Air Resource Board (CARB), open to retail sales. Furthermore, the first deliveries to customers “are leaving the Foxconn EV Ohio factory to deliver to customers.” Production at the factory started in August. Lordstown says it wants will deliver 50 units to customers before the end of the year and another 450 units in the first quarter of next year. Earlier this month, the company managed to build 12 units, acknowledging the slow pace of growth as it focused on ensuring quality and addressing spare parts constraints. The rate is expected to increase through the end of 2022.
And in a year where six of the nine finalists for Car, Utility and Truck of the Year in North America were battery-powered vehicles, Endurance is one of three finalists inside truck categories – all three of which also made it to the semi-finals. Ohio pickups are resisting Ford F-150 Lightning and chevrolet Silverado ZR2 for the jury’s title in January.
According to the final timeline we received, the production target by the end of 2023 is 3,000 units. Achieving this still depends on finding cash, even after making a new investment deal with manufacturing partner Foxconn that could put up to $170 million in the company’s coffers, assuming the deal This agreement passes regulatory oversight. In the meantime, thank you to Lordstown.