GET ME REWRITE: Aftermath of Lordstown Motors' soured deal with Foxconn continues to go south

 

Screenshot from 2020 video by Retiring Guy

Headline:  Car Scoops, 1/11/2024

Lordstown would go on to strike a deal with Foxconn to sell its manufacturing plant in Ohio and reached a deal for the iPhone manufacturer to build its planned Endurance pickup truck. However, that deal quickly turned sour and Lordstown was forced to file for bankruptcy last year.

Other Foxconn/Lordstown posts:

2024

January

Foxconned in Ohio:  Still a big mess.  (1/2)

2023

November

Apparently, Youngstown Business Journal is a PR arm of Foxconn.  (11/22)

Foxconned in Ohio and Wisconsin.  (11/21)

Dear Henrik Fisker, Best not to hold your breath on the Foxconn deal.  Best, Retiring Guy.  (11/16)

What's for lunch?  (11/3)

Youngstown Business Journal getting snookered by Foxconn.  (11/1)

October 

With a straight face, business journal announces series to take readers inside the Ohio Foxconn.  (10/30)

Lordstown Endurance electric truck is a must to avoid.  (10/28)

The ongoing saga.  (10/24)

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)