Keep your eyes peeled to see how the Lordstown Endurance gets on this weekend. The GMC Hummer EV will spawn an Extreme E vehicle even more different to the production truck, while Rivian recently completed the Rebelle Rally in a relatively stock R1T. Out of the upcoming crop of electric trucks, Lordstown is the only one doing in-wheel hub motors at all four corners, which are the copper elements you see in the wheels.īut even though its unique in that sense, its not the only electric truck going off-road racing to prove it can hang with internal combustion when the going gets rough. Impressive if only half of the cars that start cross the finish line at the end. The goal isn’t to finish first, as it’ll need a charging stop midway through, but to finish full stop. That’s because this is less a durability test for the truck’s chassis, as no standard production truck can really finish the race, and instead more of a test of the electric motor technology. Their Baja racer, which you can see in the hype video below, is a fully stripped out racer, complete with long travel off-road suspension and massive wheels.Īs you can see, it sits much higher than the regular Lordstown Endurance pickup, but the electric hub motors are interchangeable between the trucks. Official results from organizers of the San Felipe 250 held in Mexicos rugged Baja Peninsula show that LMCs Endurance Entry reached 39.8 miles of the 280-mile. As far as Baja, we’ll see how it handles tomorrow. It’s so grueling, in fact, that only around 50 percent of the 350 vehicles that take part finish each year.Īnd that’s why Lordstown isn’t taking a standard Endurance electric pickup truck. In other words, expect bumps, sand, jumps and rocks for each and every one of those miles. It’s one of the most difficult, if not the most difficult Baja races, and covers 290 miles of varying desert terrain. The company emerged from bankruptcy with approximately 78 million of cash, 1 billion of net operating loss carry forwards and various causes of action.

The San Felipe 250 is the first section of the SCORE World Desert Championship. (NuRide), formerly known as Lordstown Motors Corp., emerged from bankruptcy as a public reporting company. The goal of the entry isn’t to win, but to test and prove the durability of the truck’s signature in-wheel electric motor hubs over the desert terrain. Now, the Ohio company has announced more details on the truck and revealed the actual vehicle taking part in the San Felipe 250 race on April 15th with a rad teaser video of the Lordstown Endurance racing truck. The Baja 1000 – a 1,000-mile race in its 54th year– is the premier event in a series that includes the San Felipe 250, Baja 500 and Desert Challenge.Earlier this year, Ohio-based Lordstown Motors announced their Endurance electric pickup truck was heading to the most grueling off-road race of them all: Baja. The Baja desert series, sanctioned by the Southern California Off Road Enthusiasts International (SCORE), has been a benchmark for off-road racing. And GMC Hummer is sponsoring a prototype EV racing team in the Xtreme E off-road series. Plymouth’s Rivian put its R1T truck to the test in the Rebelle Rally last fall.

The Jaguar iPace has competed in the FIA's international eTrophy series. Lordstown’s Baja entry follows other manufacturers into competitive racing.

Automakers have a long history of proving production vehicles in extreme racing environments, and the nascent electric vehicle industry is proving no different. The Ohio-based electric pickup truck maker will enter its Endurance pickup in the SCORE San Felipe 250 on April 17, a grueling test of off-road endurance on Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula.

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