Foxconned in Ohio: The ongoing saga

 

Screenshot from 2020 video by Retiring Guy

Headline:  Green Car News, 10/23/2023

The van will offer up to 155 miles of range and vehicle-to-load (V2L) charging capability, Elaine Wu, a member of the engineering team, said during the presentation. Notable features include a camera and sensor suite that gives drivers a 360-degree view around the vehicle, and a foldaway passenger seat that allows the drive to step directly out of the vehicle onto the curb. 

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Since last year, Foxconn, which now owns General Motors' former plant in Lordstown Ohio, backed out of its deal with Lordstown Motors to produce that company's Endurance electric pickup. Foxconn purchased the factory from Lordstown, which has since declared bankruptcy, and plans to use it to manufacture other vehicles, including the Indi One EV and a self-driving electric tractor. 

Foxconn is also reportedly due to make the Pear EV for Fisker, although as of a couple months ago the deal wasn’t yet finalized.

Other Foxconn and Foxconn/Lordstown posts:

2023

October 

Foxconn serves up another empty promise to Lordstown.  (10/8)

After multiple deadline extensions, ex-CEO buys company assets .  (10/1)

September

Lordstown Motors debacle stumbles to a close.  (9/20)

Lordstown Motors down to zero?  (9/6)

Lordstown Motors debacle:  Better to lock the door and hide when Foxconn comes calling.  (9/5)

Illinois reporter recalls how Wisconsin governor Scott Walker got Foxconned.  (9/4)

Fisker enters follows the trail of Foxconn broken promises.  (9/2)

August

Foxconned in Ohio, just like we were in Wisconsin, Scott Walker.  (8/31)

Pollyanna lives in Lordstown.  (8/30)

Another passel of broken promises.  (8/23)

Apparently, former Ohio congressman Tim Ryan has never been to Wisconsin.  (8/15)

Lordstown Motors cautionary tale.  (8/10)

More evidence that everything that Foxconn touches in the USA turns to shit.  (8/8/)

Add Fisker to the list of those who have been Foxconned.  (8/6)

The production hell that was Lordstown Motors.  (8/2)

July

Another bad karma day for Lordstown Motors.  (7/28)

In the United States, it seems as though everything Foxconn touches turns to shit. (7/27)

More bad karma for Lordstown Motors.  (7/25)

Foxconn and Lordstown Motors engage in a war of words.  (7/24)

Take the money and run.  (7/18)

Lordstown Motors corporate welfare debacle in Ohio.  (7/17)

Wisconn Valley.  Voltage Valley.  File under 'Foxconned'.  (7/16).

Read a review of an EV truck you'll never drive.  (7/12)

Add India to the list of places where Foxconn has pulled out.  (7/11)

Lordstown Motors debacle: Sounds like Foxconn has more mischief up its sleeve.  (7/11)

Lordstown Motors continues to swirl down the toilet.  (7/10)

June

Embattled Lordstown continues to make headlines.  (6/29)

It's another Foxconn debacle as Lordstown Motors files for bankruptcy.  (6/27)

Vote of 'no confidence' from Lordstown Motors founder Steve Burns.  (6/22)

InvestsorPlace warns that Lordstown Motors RIDE will crash and burn.  (6/14)

Foxconn goes from Wisconsin bamboozle to Lordstown chicanery.  (6/13)

Lordstown/Foxconn EV debacle on verge of morphing into legal slugfest.  (6/11)

You're in for a bad RIDE with Lordstown Motors according to InvestorPlace.  (6/10)

Foxconn debacle at Lordstown is running on empty.  (6/5)

Foxconn/Lordstown Endurance partnership:  And the hits just keep on coming.  (6/3)

It's all over town, Lordstown's Endurance lacks endurance.  (6/2)

May

The slow drip of bad news out of Lordstown becomes a gusher, part 2.  (5/29)

The slow drip of bad news out of Lordstown becomes a gusher, part 1.  (5/29)

Not making good on a pledge?  It's a Foxconn speciality!  (5/28)

Foxconn/Lordstown Motors deal.  Tick.....tick.....tick..... (5/24)

January

Slow drip of bad news out of Lordstown continues for Foxconn.  (3/19)

2022

Slow drip of bad news out of Lordstown continues.  (5/22)

2021

Four years in, Foxconn still hopes to hit a bullseye.  (10/1)

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

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