Yahoo Autos Foxconn Has Only Managed to Make About 40 Lordstown Endurance Pickups So Far
Foxconn EV production keeps stalling at its newly-acquired assembly line, bought last year from Lordstown Motors. The Taiwanese manufacturer, which has built myriad devices for Apple, Google, Microsoft and Sony is now learning that cars are much harder to make than smartphones, according to Bloomberg.
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Lordstown hired Foxconn to build its EVs after the manufacturer bought the Lorsdtown, Ohio production plant from the fledging U.S. EV maker in 2022. Their partnership was one of the conditions included in the $230 million sale of the plant, and Foxconn bought a stake in the EV company soon thereafter, effectively putting the tech giant’s vast resources behind Lordstown Motors.
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Foxconn’s willingness to jump into EV production and hit the ground running with concepts that conveyed its great expectations seemed to bode well for the partnership between the Taiwanese OEM and Lordstown. But Foxconn has so far only been able to make “a handful of prototypes, a few dozen electric buses and about 40 pickups for Lordstown,” as Bloomberg reports.
Production of the Lordstown Endurance EV pickup has been plagued by recalls and other delays revolving around high productions costs, per Bloomberg:
