U.S.-based Lordstown Motors is a budding automaker without anything approaching a nationwide network of repair shops, but it seems like it has found a solution.
The company, which will soon start the production of its first electric truck called Endurance, just struck a deal with Camping World, a motorhome maker with 170 auto shops in the United States. The company sees the cooperation as an opportunity to expand its business in return for certain valuable EV technologies it would later be able to implement in its camping vans. First CW prototypes using Lordstown tech should emerge in summer 2021.
As for the Endurance, the truck draws close to the production. Beta testing is scheduled to begin in early 2021, and mass production should start in the fall. The car uses multiple electric motors jointly rated at 608 PS (600 hp / 448 kW) and a large 109-kWh battery reportedly sufficient for 400 km (248 miles) of range on a single charge.