Lordstown Motors starts taking orders for electric, 600-hp pickup truck
Flush with cash from General Motors, startup automaker Lordstown Motors is moving full speed ahead with the development of an electric pickup truck it hopes will beat comparable models made byTesla,Rivian,Ford, and others. The company announced the Endurance — its upcoming entry into the burgeoning segment — will be the first to hit the market, and it released preliminary technical specifications as it began taking orders for the model. The vast majority of electric cars sold new in 2019 are equipped with one electric motor per axle (two-wheel-drive models have a single motor, while the ones with all-wheel drive use two)....