Sadly, electrical truck maker Lordstown Motors’ bumpy and colourful trip seems to have come to an finish. The corporate has filed for Chapter 11 chapter safety, and is suing enterprise companion Foxconn for allegedly reneging on an funding deal.

Lordstown mentioned it’ll attempt to promote its belongings, and scale back its 243-person employees to a skeleton crew as a way to full current orders for automobiles. The Washington Put up studies that the corporate produced solely 65 of its Endurance pickups since its 2018 founding.

Lordstown’s historical past started with a heartwarming story of a shuttered manufacturing unit in Lordstown, Ohio, which was retooled to construct electrical vehicles. Sister firm Workhorse was on the heart of a tragedy during which a plan for the US Postal Service to impress its supply automobiles fell aside. In 2020, Lordstown rode the wave of EV-related SPAC startups and, together with most of these companies, noticed its inventory soar, then crash. In 2021, issues turned darkish as an activist short-seller raised questions on Lordstown’s order guide. Then the corporate made a cope with Chinese language manufacturing large Foxconn, which was supposed to purchase most of Lordstown’s Ohio manufacturing unit and get the long-delayed Endurance e-pickup on the highway.

Now Lordstown has accused Foxconn of refusing to ship the entire $170 million it had promised to speculate. Foxconn has rejected these claims.

Lordstown founder and former CEO Stephen Burns has bought his whole stake within the firm, in keeping with a regulatory submitting. Burns resigned from the position of CEO in 2021.

So far as we all know, Lordstown’s woes don’t have an effect on the associated EV-maker Workhorse, nor Foxconn’s manufacturing of Monarch electrical tractors on the manufacturing unit within the metropolis of Lordstown.

Sources: Washington Put up, Reuters