Lordstown Motors To Race Endurance Electric Pickup Truck Skateboard in San Felipe 250 Race in Baja California on April 17
February 17 2021 - 7:00AM
Lordstown Motors Corp. (Nasdaq: RIDE), (“Lordstown Motors”), a
leader in electric light duty trucks focused on the commercial
fleet market, has entered the Endurance Beta skateboard in the 2021
SCORE International San Felipe 250, part of the SCORE World Desert
Championship race series. The 290-mile single loop race will start
and finish in San Felipe, Baja California, Mexico on April 17,
2021.
By taking the Endurance to the Mexican desert
race course, which is considered one of the most grueling and
punishing in the world, Lordstown Motors is setting out to prove
that the Endurance is not only one of the safest, most efficient
trucks on the planet, but also that it is the toughest, most robust
as it tackles the San Felipe Desert.
“We feel that it is quite a significant
milestone for the electric vehicle community that an electric
pickup truck can compete in an environment as demanding as Baja
California,” said Steve Burns, CEO of Lordstown Motors. “Our goal
is to be the first electric vehicle to ever complete the San Felipe
250, and with the superior traction, weight balance and advanced
software control of our hub motor-based Endurance, we are confident
that we will do just that.”
After being postponed in 2020 because of the
COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 San Felipe 250, held in April on
Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, will be the SCORE World Desert
Championship season-opener for the ninth straight season.
The Lordstown Endurance is a full-size,
all-electric pickup that has a range of 250 miles, the equivalent
of 600hp and can tow up to 7,500lbs. After successful prototype and
Alpha builds, Lordstown is now building the first Beta Endurance
vehicles and is on track for start of production in September of
this year. The initial Endurance is a crew cab configuration with
medium bed length, priced at $45,000 after federal rebate.
About Lordstown Motors
Corp.Lordstown Motors Corp. is an Ohio-based original
equipment manufacturer of light duty fleet vehicles, founded by CEO
Steve Burns with the purpose of transforming Ohio's Mahoning Valley
and Lordstown, Ohio, into the epicenter of electric-vehicle
manufacturing. The company owns the 785 acre, 6.2 million square
foot Lordstown Assembly Plant where it plans to build the Lordstown
Endurance, believed to be the world's first full-size, all-electric
pickup truck designed to serve the commercial fleet market. For
additional information visit www.lordstownmotors.com.
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statements contained herein due to many factors, including, but not
limited to: our limited operating history and our significant
projected funding needs; risks associated with the conversion and
retooling of our facility and ramp up of production; our inability
to obtain binding purchase orders from customers and potential
customers’ inability to integrate our electric vehicles into their
existing fleets; our inability to retain key personnel and to hire
additional personnel; competition in the electric pickup truck
market; our inability to develop a sales distribution network; and
the ability to protect our intellectual property rights. Any
forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they
are made, and Lordstown Motors Corp. undertakes no obligation to
update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or
circumstances after the date of this press release.
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