Saturday, June 3, 2023

Foxconn/Lordstown Endurance partnership: And the hits just keep on coming

 
From Motor Trend, no less.

Screenshot from 2020 video by Retiring Guy
Headline:  Motor Trend. 6/2/2023
What's the least efficient electric vehicle in America right now? This is a rhetorical question, clearly. The EPA's just rated the Lordstown Endurance, and it's bad news for a company that really didn't need any bad news. After all, the investment from Foxconn that essentially saved the operation is now unraveling, threatening the tenuous dribble of Endurance production. And now, the few trucks that the company has been able to make are saddled with some truly dismal range and efficiency figures. 
This is a problem for the fleet-oriented buyers that Lordstown is courting, who are driven by the cold calculus of purchase and running costs, and who have options from now from serious and established players.

Other Foxconn and Foxconn/Lordstown posts:
2023

2022

2021
GET ME REWRITE: Yes, Foxconn's $100 milion pledge to UW-Madison was nothing more than a cynical election ploy by Scott Walker.  (8/11)
The mysteries of Foxconn (season 2).  (5/12)
The collapse of Donald Trump's '8th Wonder of the World'.  (4/20)

2020
Apparently, that's not what Scott Walker heard.  (12/19)
Just wondering what else in this Foxconn op-ed is off the mark.  (11/17)
GET ME REWRITE: Two gullible guys from Racine County still believe anything Foxconn tells them.  (10/23)

Keeping tabs on Foxconn Place in
Eau Claire
Green Bay
Madison
Milwau

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