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Lordstown Endurance

Lordstown Endurance
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The Lordstown Endurance is a battery electric full-size pickup truck with wheel hub motors manufactured by Lordstown Motors in collaboration with Foxconn at its Ohio factory. The Endurance entered limited production in September 2022 with plans to manufacture no more than 500 vehicles through June 2023. It was the company's first production automobile.

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History

=== Initial design === Development began as the range-extended electric vehicle Workhorse W-15 in 2016. The automotive press got their first look at the W-15 at a May 2017 event held in Long Beach, California. A prototype W-15 was shown in August 2018, fitted with a gasoline range extender sourced from BMW. Steve Burns, the CEO of Workhorse Group, left that company to help found the automotive startup Lordstown Motors in autumn 2019. The W-15 design was licensed in November 2019 to Lordstown in exchange for a 10% minority stake in the latter company, and Workhorse paused further development of the W-15. Simultaneously, Lordstown acquired the Lordstown Assembly plant from General Motors. In the second half of December 2019, Lordstown Motors presented the first preliminary information about its vehicle. The electric pickup truck design was renamed to the Lordstown Endurance, adopting an avant-garde design that combines the classic proportions of a semi-truck with lighting that forms a single line with embossing. The W-15 forms the basis of the Endurance, although there are significant differences. In mid-June 2020, Lordstown presented the first official sketches showing the appearance of the passenger cab of the Endurance, while the world premiere of the pickup took place on June 25 of the same year. Testing and factory sale. A prototype Endurance caught fire 10 minutes into its first test drive in January 2021 and was completely destroyed. Details of the fire were not released publicly until February 2021; Hindenburg Research, a short-seller of Lordstown stock, published a report in March alleging that Lordstown had inflated preorder numbers to boost investor confidence and provided further details about the fire gleaned from a police report. In June 2021, company offici

Design

=== Workhorse W-15 === The W-15 had an all-wheel drive powertrain driven by two traction motors, one each for the front and rear axles, with a combined output of 460 hp (340 kW). These motors drew from a battery carried between the frame rails consisting of 6,000 cells from Panasonic; gross capacity was 60 kW-hr, but the useable capacity was limited to 40 kW-hr for longevity. The all-electric range was estimated to be 80 to 100 mi (130 to 160 km). There was an onboard 11 US gal (42 L) gasoline tank and three-cylinder range extender that added an additional 310 mi (500 km); the 0.7 L I-3 had an estimated output of 38 hp (28 kW) and 41 lb⋅ft (56 N⋅m). Estimated consumption was 75 mpg‑e (45 kW⋅h/100 mi) on electricity, dropping to 28 / 32 mpg‑US (8.4 / 7.4 L/100 km) for the EPA city/highway driving cycles, respectively. The truck was approximately the same size as contemporary half-ton crew cab pickup truck competitors such as the Toyota Tundra, at 234 in (5,900 mm) long riding on a wheelbase of 143 in (3,600 mm), but was wider than most by approximately 5 to 6 in (130 to 150 mm) at 80 in (2,000 mm). The body of the W-15 was made of carbon fiber-reinforced composite materials and was based on the design of the 2014–2018 Chevrolet Silverado Double Cab. Larger W-25 and W-35 models were planned. The stated capacities were 2,200 lb (1,000 kg) of cargo in the 6.5 ft long (2.0 m) bed and 6,000 lb (2,700 kg) towing. It weighed approximately 5,000 lb (2,300 kg) and had a GVWR of 7,200 lb (3,300 kg). Powertrain. While the W-15 was a range extended electric pickup, the Endurance design discarded the range extender and is a plug-in electric vehicle that uses four individual wheel hub motors. As announced at its premiere in June 2020, the Endurance was the first consumer-market EV to

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Specifications

name
Lordstown Endurance
Manufacturer
Lordstown Motors
Production
September 2022–June 2023
Model years
2023
Assembly
United States: Lordstown, Ohio (Lordstown Assembly)
Designer
Mike Desmond of Hydra Design Labs (exterior), Chris Schuttera (interior)
Class
Electric full-size pickup truck
Body style
4-door pickup truck
Layout
Wheel hub motors, individual-wheel drive
Battery
109kWh
Wheelbase
146.2 in
Length
230.0 in
Width
81.4 in
Height
76.4 in
Kerb weight
6450 lb
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Lordstown Endurance
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US EPA fuel-economy records

YearEngineDriveTransmissionFuelMPG (US) comb.CO₂ g/miEV range miSource
2023 4-Wheel DriveAutomatic (A1)Electricity48—174EPA ↗

US EPA test figures (US MPG, US test cycle).

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