Lordstown Endurance Electric Pickup Now Homologated And Certified For US Sales

The company says it has already built the first customer vehicles and they are ready for delivery.

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Andrei Nedelea

By: Andrei Nedelea

Nov 29, 2022 at 1:10pm ET

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Lordstown Motors has struggled a lot to get this point, but now it looks like it on the final stretch to begin customer deliveries of its Endurance electric pickup truck. The manufacturer just announced that the truck has received its US homologation, as well as its CARB, EPA and FMVSS safety certifications and is ready to reach customers.

The first batch of 500 trucks has apparently already been assembled at the Foxconn facility in Lordstown, Ohio, making for quite a change of fortune for the troubled company founded in 2018. The Lordstown Endurance was initially scheduled to enter production in late 2020, then its launch was postponed until September, 2021, when further delays were announced.

Then in October 2021, the news broke that Taiwan’s Foxconn, the company that manufactures the Apple iPhone, was going to take over the factory as it had automotive ambitions of its own. Foxconn agreed to stick to the plan of producing the Endurance in that location and now it looks like it has finally materialized.

Lordstown Endurance

Lordstown Endurance Interior

General Motors was initially part of the project too, having invested $75-million in Lordstown Motors. However, towards the end of 2021, GM announced that it had sold off all its Lordstown shares and that it was no longer had a representative in the company’s board of directors.

After Foxconn took over the plant, it invested around $170-million in Lordstown, giving the company enough capital to start production. Back in August, the company said that it still needed “substantially more capital” in order to build the first 500 Endurance pickups, but this problem seems to have been overcome.

Edward Hightower, Lordstown CEO and President, said

I am very proud of the Lordstown Motors and Foxconn EV Ohio team for their hard work, grit, and tenacity in achieving this milestone. We are very excited to start delivering vehicles to our commercial fleet customers.

The Endurance will provide benefits to customers that use their vehicles for work. It optimizes key attributes of traction and maneuverability - with our in-wheel hub motors, safety - with our five-star crash performance, and value in the segment