Foxconn Chairman announced: Lordstown Endurance electric pickup truck will be delivered in 2022
Lordstown will begin delivering electric pickups this year, according to the chairman of Foxconn, the company that owns the EV startup’s Ohio factory.
“The electric pickup trucks in partnership with Lordstown will start shipping in the second half of this year, Young Liu said in an interview with Nikkei Asia published Sunday. He also said Foxconn’s own electric bus “will be on the way” in southern Taiwan around the same time.
After numerous delays in preparing for production of the Endurance pickup, Lordstown announced in November 2021 that it has sold its former General Motors plant to Foxconn for $230 million. At the time, they said deliveries would be pushed back to the third quarter of 2022.
Lordstown Endurance
Lordstown was created to save the old GM factory in the Ohio town of the same name. They have revealed what they claim is a production-ready version of the Endurance in 2020, but have delayed the start of production multiple times, causing numerous problems.
As part of the deal, Foxconn invested an additional $50 million in equity in Lordstown in October 2021, and Lordstown agreed to pursue a joint venture agreement with Foxconn, under which the iPhone maker is expected to will act as a contract producer for Endurance.
Lordstown initially introduced the wheel hub motor as the main selling point for the Endurance and other planned vehicles. The company has licensed the design of the hub motor from the Slovenian company Elaphe and has planned to manufacture the motor in its own factory.
Lordstown Endurance
But CEO Daniel Ninivaggi, who replaced Founding CEO Steve Burns after ousted end claims the order is allegedly inflatedarguably downplayed the importance of technology — something Ford was quick to put out for the F-150 Lightning.
Burns called Lightning’s launch a “watershed moment”, arguing that it wasLordstown’s electric truck focus is optimized. Perhaps with the enormous demand for Lightning, Lordstown could extract its own market from this – if it works soon.
