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Canoo Lifestyle Vehicle
The Canoo Lifestyle Vehicle (LV) was a battery electric vehicle with multiple body styles sharing a common platform, including minivan, cargo van, and pickup truck, manufactured by Canoo. Canoo went bankrupt in January 2025. The cargo van variant, named the Lifestyle Delivery Vehicle (LDV), was in production; an all-wheel-drive pickup truck, named the Light Tactical Vehicle (LTV), was delivered for evaluation by the United States Army; and three other models of passenger vans were announced. They had range estimates of 400 km (250 mi) and an estimated 0–100 km/h (0–62 mph) time of 6.3 seconds. The base price of the vehicle was US$34,750. Production of the Lifestyle Delivery Vehicle began in 2023. The first vehicles made in Oklahoma were delivered to the state of Oklahoma in November 2023.
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Design
=== Chassis === The LV and LDV were built on a chassis integrating the battery, traction motor, and suspension in a single skateboard chassis, which Canoo called the "multi-purpose platform" (MPP), designed to accommodate a wide variety of bodies, including cargo van, passenger van, and pickup truck styles. Canoo anticipated a body or powertrain swap would take approximately two hours. The double wishbone suspension uses transverse composite leaf springs. The LV is equipped with a drive-by-wire system, eliminating the need for mechanical connections like a steering shaft and allowing for greater flexibility in designing the cabin. A redundant 12 V DC–DC converter is included to ensure the steer-by-wire system is operable. Body variants. The Canoo Lifestyle Vehicle (passenger minivan) was planned to be available in three trims. The Base trim had five seats. The Premium trim, priced $49,950, had a glass roof, a front street view window, a 17 speakers audio system, ambient lighting, an ultraviolet air purifying system, and seven seats; the two additional seats are mounted longitudinally on the rear doors, with its occupants facing each other. The Adventure trim added an exclusive paint color, a tow hitch and roof rack. The body uses a steel structure covered by plastic panels. There is 130 ft3 (3.7 m3) of enclosed space in the body, of which 13 ft3 (0.37 m3) is behind the rear seat in passenger models. The Lifestyle Delivery Vehicle (cargo minivan), priced US$34,750, has two seats and 1,464 lb (664 kg) of cargo capacity. In August 2023, Canoo announced the LDV 190, retroactively renaming the original LDV to LDV 130; the LDV 190 is a Class 2 vehicle with reinforced suspension and 172 ft3 (4.9 m3) of cargo space behind the bulkhead for the front cab. It also is equipped wi
Production
Lifestyle Vehicles were planned to be assembled in factories to be built in Arkansas and Pryor, Oklahoma. As of 2022, Canoo aimed to build at least 3,000 vehicles in 2022, then 14,000 in 2023 and 40,000 in 2024 and 70,000 in 2025. The production of the first vehicles was set originally to take place in Bentonville, Arkansas to support deliveries to Walmart, but later was shifted to an unspecified contractor in August 2022. Approximately 120 prototypes were built at Roush Industries in Livonia, Michigan by December 2022, using tooling and processes developed by Canoo; these tools were planned to be taken back to the Canoo Oklahoma factory in 2023. The first official production vehicle was assembled on November 17, 2022; Canoo planned to fill exclusively commercial fleet orders for the first year of production. Some of the prototypes were tested by Walmart InHome as delivery vehicles in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex starting in July 2022. Canoo announced in a November 2023 press release that it had delivered its first vehicles made in Oklahoma to the state of Oklahoma. Three vehicles were delivered to the Office of Management and Enterprise Services, the Department of Corrections, and the Department of Transportation. In late 2024, a former Canoo employee alleged that no vehicles had ever been manufactured at the Pryor factory, and that the three vehicles for the state of Oklahoma were instead built in Justin, Texas. The United States Postal Service purchased six Canoo LDV models for evaluation in early 2024. In late 2025, TechCrunch reported that both NASA and the USPS had taken their Canoo vehicles out of service. == References ==
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