This one and that white one, I guess? Photo by the author.
While Tesla posted news about delivering more than 300,000 vehicles last quarter, some underappreciated scribe was toiling away on a press release announcing that Lordstown Motors had, indeed, begin producing its hub-motor powered electric pickup truck. “is pleased to announce that our first two commercial release production Endurance™ vehicles have rolled off the production line at the Foxconn EV Ohio plant,” reads the official release, adding that, “the third expected to be completed shortly.
“We will continue to build at a slow rate as we address remaining part pedigree and part availability issues. We expect to increase the speed of production into November and December,” said, Lordstown CEO and President. “Our homologation and certification processes are proceeding as planned.” Those certification processes include FMVSS crash testing that has been completed successfully, as well as EPA and CARB applications that the company notes have been submitted .
The company claims these two trucks are part of a larger, 500 unit production run that will get the Foxconn-owned plant up to speed, with deliveries expected to happen within the next 6-8 months. “We expect to deliver approximately 50 units to customers in 2022,” reads the release, “and the remainder of the first batch in the first half of 2023.”
As for the Lordstown Endurance itself, I— I just can’t, you guys. I really, really want to make a joke about the fact that
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This is an absolutely disgusting article from a publication that is meant to support clean energy. Can you please remove the mocking elements referring to the ramp up of production. Please compare how many model S were made in the first month not current mode 3 production.
Much bigger than that if you were to just .. look at it.