Production
Production of the Endurance took place at Lordstown Assembly, a former General Motors plant, in the village of the same name in the U.S. state of Ohio;[18] Lordstown Motors had purchased the shuttered plant from GM in November 2019[19] and owned it until it was sold to Foxconn in 2021.[17]
Originally, production was to start in 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ohio, it was postponed to 2021,[20] and in June 2021, this was pushed back to fall 2021 following revelations about a lack of confirmed orders.[14] Production was delayed again in October 2021 to April 2022 after Lordstown announced it was selling the factory to Foxconn.[16] A month later, Lordstown announced that production would be delayed to the third quarter of 2022 due to supply chain issues.[21] Commercial production began on September 29, 2022; Lordstown expected to produce 50 Endurance vehicles in 2022 and up to 450 more in the first half of 2023.[22]
By November 2022, Lordstown said it had assembled 500 Endurance trucks, and after winning type approval, would begin deliveries before the end of the year.[23] Lordstown delivered three Endurance trucks to customers in the fourth quarter of 2022.[24] By February 2023, Lordstown had assembled only 31 Endurance trucks since production began in September 2022; the factory was shut down after issuing a recall for 19 of those for a "specific electrical connection issue that could result in a loss of propulsion while driving".[25][26] As of March 2023, sources suggest that six trucks have been delivered to customers in total.[24] A second and third recall followed in March and April 2023, respectively.[27][28]
On June 27, 2023, Lordstown Motors announced that they would sell the Endurance following the company filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after a dispute between its parent company FoxConn, marking the end of the Lordstown Endurance.[29]
