Manufacturing

Lordstown's challenge: Starting deliveries of Endurance EV pickup in a year

CEO Steve Burns, above, says Lordstown Motors’ electric pickups will be sold only to fleet customers initially. The Endurance has an electric motor installed in each wheel, and its range is 250 miles.
October 31, 2020 04:00 AM

DETROIT — See if this sounds familiar: A start-up EV company is basically gifted a modern plant chock-full of world-class production equipment. To reduce product-development costs and time, its first vehicle uses thousands of proven off-the-shelf parts from major suppliers and established automakers.

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