Lordstown EV Pickup has 174 miles of EPA range
Lordstown Motors’ woes now include the completion of its first electric car. The EPA has rated the Endurance pickup as only 174 miles. For context, the all-wheel-drive Ford F-150 Lightning gets 240 miles on a smaller battery, and the Rivian R1T manages 289 miles. It’s also well below Lordstown’s original claim of 250 miles on the truck, according to the EPA.
We have reached out to Lordstown for comment. Autoblog points out that the EPA numbers are sometimes very conservative. The Porsche Taycan, for example, regularly exceeds government-specified range in real-world driving. The Endurance also tows more than the F-150, despite having less than half the payload capacity. The Ford is also $399 cheaper.
If the rating holds, it greatly limits the durability’s appeal to customers who need only short-haul trips, such as contractors who rarely stop in one city. That can be a problem for workers who make a lot of stops, not to mention anyone who has to travel between cities.
Accurate or not, the EPA classification makes Lordstown’s problems worse. The Ohio brand continues to struggle with production issues that have hampered its output. General Motors sold its stake in the company last year, and manufacturing partner Foxconn is threatening to pull out over a breach of contract related to the shares. Now it’s not clear whether Endurance would be competitive even if Lordstown could solve its other problems.
