 This is a great photo of the new endurance interior check it out how cool it is This is mx ux. I'm just gonna move forward here. I'm gonna try to do this quickly This is the ride 2023 endurance consumer model I've gone through a lot of information. I think this is what I Loads kind of spending $90 million a quarter on so I've gone through some a lot of information. I've got The to the best of my ability at this present time would I think the exact options and specs of this? endurance consumer Endurance truck will be and I am convinced that after they do 500 fleet models They're gonna go right into consumer or very much more quickly than they're letting on Anyway, there's a great headlight. That's a great look at the endurance there Now the endurance the 2023 endurance is a consumer vehicle The endurance is categorized by elements is a light-duty truck now a lot of people are talking about oh, you know the Capacity and so forth You know one one definition is 21 miles per gallon. We're looking at at least 65 Probably more with the endurance the US government definition of a light-duty truck So let's operationally define what the endurance is light duty means any motor vehicle rated at 85 pounds gross vehicle weight And that's curb weight. I believe or less. So we got max is 8500 pounds. We meet that vehicle curb weight of 6,000 pounds or less Okay, and I believe we meet that and Has a basic frontal area of 45 square feet or less Okay So let's just say that we meet most of these requirements roughly We don't have finals on this but let's just go with that because they have called it a light-duty truck Okay, light-duty truck and This is a government definition designed primarily for the poor Purpose of transportation of property or is a derivation of such a vehicle or a Design primarily for the transportation of persons and have it has a capacity of more than 12 portions or Available with special features enabling off-street or off-highway operation in use So Basically what I'm saying here is the endurance is a light-duty truck. It's not a one-ton It's not a super-duty. It's not a, you know 250 It's it's a you know, it's a half-ton pickup truck. Okay. All right Now I'm gonna go through this I got this in a checklist So I'm gonna try to keep with the checklist here go down the checklist as quickly as possible right now the battery We got 109 kilowatt lithium-ion liquid-cooled battery Range 200 miles not final not final. Okay. This is from internal testing. There's no EPA Reading on this range curious Frank 9.6 cubic feet. We've gone over this it's it's half of what the previous was There's a 400 watt outlet in the pump and the trunk and it's lighted the bed as a five foot eight inch bed I believe it was five foot six inch before And there is a bed off option for this truck, which is important because The Silverado and the Cybertruck is not gonna are not going to have a bed They're incapable of having a bed off bed off means you can take the pickup truck bed off and put a flat bed on Or a special purpose bed The bed has a 400 watt outlet. It's got a light. It's got tie-down hooks It's got tailgate locks, and I believe these are locks that are in place so that someone cannot Open the tailgate and remove it from the truck. Okay. I do believe that is the purpose of these tailgate locks There's also a camera in the bed. So you've got an outlet A light tie-down hooks locks and a bed camera now, you know, the Ford F-150 has a big conglomerate of Lightning of outlets. I just want to tell you from having used a pickup truck in actual work situations That outlet that electrical center with that little plastic flap on it Is gonna last 10 minutes Okay, that is not Suitable for work in my opinion We'll see what the final looks like on that But that's gonna be in my opinion gonna have to be much more heavy-duty for the kind of use I was using putting wash gravel in a pickup truck these types of things shoveling loads out of a truck You know, I don't I don't see it working. Okay, in my opinion, that's a grocery getter. I think that the Endurance outlet is much more feasible for a work truck moving forward spare tire Okay, spare tire full-size spare tire It's mounted under the bed and it includes a toolkit. So this is a big deal because you know, you get a full you you get a full-size spare Okay, and it's not mounted in some cubby hole like the Rivian by the way, Rivian also Rivians an SUV I'm not even gonna talk about it. Okay Now the towing capability of the endurance consumer model is Gonna be four tons. Okay. I do believe the towing package from what I've seen Isn't an option. It's standard at least so far So that's gonna include a hitch enhance cooling probably some Suspension enhancements as well now. This is the thing about the endurance Of all these electric trucks, it's the only one with a solid rear axle According to Sandy Monroe This is the only way to tow Everything else is a compromise. Okay. This also Has leaf springs in the back So we have a very rigid rear suspension, which is ideal for towing and I might add and we're gonna get into the Capacity the home, you know the Weight capacity of this thing when you have a solid rear axle Okay, and you have Leaf springs in the back Guess what if you have to overload that truck a little bit You can do it It'll it'll handle it in my opinion now. This is this is a new vehicle It has hub motors the bearing wheel bearings are important. I'm sure they expect these wheel bearings out to the nth degree But I'm just saying you're not going to be able to overload overload that Lightning because of the fragile rear suspension and I don't care what anybody says That's why they put that scale in there And if you overload that truck, you're gonna avoid the warning. But anyway, that is the towing I think this is a very capable towing vehicle for consumers and It makes you worry less about the capacity Requirements because you know you can tow a trailer if you have to you have four tons That's more than the Ford Lightning F100 more than enough for a boat and so forth or dirt bike trailer so on and so forth Airstream trailer, whatever it may be In my opinion a very good towing package like I said They've got all kind of gimmicks on the lightning enhance towing mode and all this Listen solid rear axle Leaf springs. That's a towing vehicle. Okay That's a truck. That's a real truck. Okay, not an SUV moving forward now. We got the payload is 1200 pounds now This has gone down again from 1800 pounds because obviously more weight has been added to the truck I think that might be for the standard towing package as the towing package was listed as an option in the past the hitches about a hundred pounds then you have An extra cooling apparatus and more cooling fluid But in any case as I mentioned we have this large towing capacity So a trailer can be used if necessary to exceed this Also, I do believe there's wiggle room with a solid rear axle and leaf strings now Let's just go through this drivetrain and I want to start this by saying This is In my opinion and you can look at my last video comparing it to the top of the line Porsche This is the most capable battery electric four-wheel drive That there is these are motors at the wheels all the corrections are made at the wheels. There's no linkage This is instantaneous digital control For off-roading. I don't think it's going to be able to be beat for Snow, it's an ice. There's you know, you can look at the last video on the snow and ice testing and In a California climate like Southern California when it rains everybody makes fun of California's for Panicking about rain. What happens is it's dry most of the year oil drips and transmission fluid drips on the roads for 10 months And then it rains and all that stuff floats on top of the rain and It is very much like black ice and you'll be going down the highway and you'll hit a patch of it Or you'll come to a stop sign and you'll hit a patch of it. This Four-wheel drive system is going to be able to handle that remarkably well as well collision avoidance We haven't seen any moose test Video on this but I am sure that this is going to pass the moose test without a problem And it's going to be able to handle if you have to make high-speed maneuvers when you're traveling on the highway Or if you're traveling on a winding country road or driving through one of the canyons out here This is a truck. You're going to want to have with this drive system. Let me just go forward here Now this is a true four-wheel drive. Okay, this is four hub motors now, you know Ford says they got four well, they got two motors Okay, and they got a bunch of connecting shafts and they got all kind of stuff going on This is true four-wheel drive With a motor at each wheel. That's 4,800 pounds of torque, which is high as I understand it as better electric vehicles are They have 550 horsepower not final Quick clip the f-150 getting dragged by an endurance Again, I think they're doing testing. I don't know if they're sandbagging for the sec But previously it was 600 horsepower So we have a not final on the battery and the range and in the Yeah, battery in the range and they're not final in the horsepower Now here's the other thing of this drivetrain It's got 30% greater regen than a normal battery electric vehicle because the wheels are adjusted every millisecond and they're either Providing power or providing regen. Okay, that's how the torque vectoring. That's how the four-wheel drive works. Okay So the regen is is is 30% higher so you can expect better performance and stop and go driving. Okay And this should I think this is going to enhance the range. We'll see what the EPA range is Okay, this is digital millisecond adjustments at the wheel. You got to understand these other Companies and even Porsche, you know, they've got connecting CV joints and driveshafts and reduction gears and in the case of the F-150 lightning and likely the Porsches well, they got an electronic differential and they got all these moving parts and you know The computer sends a signal To that system and it's got to go first. It's got to go through the gearing then it's got to go through the connecting and then it's got to go through the driveshaft and it's got to do the CV joint and then finally gets to the wheel and And the drive sash has the direct energy to the wheel. You can say well, that's that's going to happen quickly Well, you know when you're in an accident and every mill and you're avoiding an accident and every millisecond counts There's there's nothing that's going to react quicker than this endurance consumer model. Okay And I think that's important and I think that's an important safety feature that shouldn't be overlooked in this car and It's got digital traction control This thing that you can see the videos. I mean, it's fantastic torque vectoring is also digital and this Really is a better system than the Porsche I believe because of the wheels motors and the millisecond reaction time and this is Using the wheels basically to steer the steer the vehicle Okay, to maneuver the vehicle and you can see my last video on that. I'll see if I can put a Link to that in here digital electronic stability control now, this is a This is a standard feature with many cars. It was established really in in response to them to the moose test Which was taken in in the 80s, which greatly enhanced the safety of vehicles in this case Again after wheel electronic Execution it's gonna be better. So this is gonna be a Really safe vehicle when it comes to collision avoidance and also performance on-road and off-road but this is this is gonna be a nimble vehicle and ABS which we've we've all come to, you know the automatic braking system that stutter steps the brakes We've all come accustomed to that There are literally four moving parts in the drivetrain people have argued about this It's the wheel motors, there's no driveshafts, there's no CV joints, there's no connecting rods, there's no reduction gearing there's no That's it. Okay, anybody wants to argue about that they can so all kind of advantages to that and The number one is you're not using the battery energy to move a lot of parts that are That are just transferring energy. This is is putting the battery energy directly to the wheels directly to the ground Most efficient there is This is another one the hub motor can be removed in five minutes You can change a motor in Five minutes with basic hand tools. Okay Need I say anything more upgrade the motors take the motors off Fix the motor replace the motor This try and do try and replace the motor on a Ford F-150 lightning You have to take half the truck apart. Okay, if there it happens to be a problem or recall or You know the thing about the consumer version of the F-150 lightning is The battery pack is upgradeable can be removed and replaced so you can upgrade the battery pack and The hub motors can be removed and replaced so you can hot-ride this thing up if you want. Okay? 20 inch aluminum wheels Disc brakes on all wheels, we all we expect that there's a 47 foot turning radius and this is again very nimble and Rack and pinion steering with electronic power assist for parking. I Hope this is I do believe this is variable electronic power steering assist I am a big fan of rack and pinion straight-on rack and pinion no power assist myself But nonetheless, that's a great a great Feel for the road. It gives you some feedback. I think You know versus you know, whatever an electric Steering mechanism, you know, Tesla has a belt and motor on there so forth All right, keep this snappy the ride now. This is again the endurance consumer version versus the fleet version Okay, this is the Lord's Town Motors endurance fleet version. I mean, I'm sorry consumer version Okay, now let's get into the body and again. They've been spending 90 million a quarter What have they been doing? They've been adding a lot of features to this truck body features okay, we got a step bumper got that puddle lighting and You know, this would be lights, you know under the either under the door frame or under the rearview mirror that Puts light down where you're gonna step. Very nice feature White paint is standard. I understand white paint is a High-priced option in some vehicles We got power rear view mirrors. So your elephant ears sticking out the sides are power There are, you know, there's a whole bunch of lighting up front running lights And there's a front center charge port, okay In the Cabin okay now Anyway, so these are you know step bumper puddle lighting white paint power mirrors running lights Oh front center charge point. I'm sorry. That is for the battery So I think this is superior to being on the left or right side right front center All you got to do is pull up to the charger plug it in I think this is the way to go versus on the left or right side, which the f-150 lightning uses much easier to Connect the charging cable now. Let's just go to the interior Features and I think this is there's there's more with the exterior, but let's just keep moving with this quickly Interior features, okay over-the-air updates Bluetooth Wi-Fi Okay, mp3 player air conditioning Quick photo of the prototype interior of the endurance cruise control Keyless entry keyless start. There's a backup camera. So there's a bed camera. There's also a backup camera Carpeting Carpeting floor mats There's a rear cab window defroster and remote cab preconditioning this is You know with these features here and These features here and There's more coming This is a Fully optioned out Truck we're talking about here. This is not some vanilla truck This is this is a I'm going to show pictures of the the interior what we think Pretty much what we think the interior is going to be but let's just move forward So I just want everybody know everybody thinks fleet truck. Well, you know rubber floor mats and a On-off switch. No, this is this this is by the way these are Being developed and are part of the system right now. So these are these are going to be available. This is not some you know concept thing according to my research now We've got carpeting. So there's there's also going to be carpeting The fleet model is going to come with you know vinyl or rubber floor mats This is going to have carpeting and it's going to have Carpeted floor mats too so you're going to This is a quick video of a beta interior on the endurance some good shots This is from fleet forward just a quick video clip here to give you an idea of I think a great interior I have some more video later I have Cloth seats carpeting all these features We're speculating on a heat pump for heating but air conditioning certainly this is a pretty I mean You know, this is a well Outfitted pickup truck. This is not going to leave you wanting for a lot of stuff Okay, and you may want an entertainment system, you know I'm sure the entertainment system is going to be okay in it But if you want to put an aftermarket subwoofer in there, that's fine There's an mp3 player as part of it There's Bluetooth, you know, you can run your tunes off your phone your Spotify I mean This is a nice truck. All right, let's move forward Uh More uh more features. There's key fob active is it activation. Okay So just like the rivian larestum tire pressure monitor Okay, got your tire pressure monitor. That's a standard feature. Uh, you got power brakes power disc brakes, but I'm sure that the Regen braking is going to do a lot for braking Uh stability control traction control. We've we've talked about this Uh rear cross traffic alert. Okay Cloth seats I prefer cloth seats. I'm not a leather seat guy. I don't like the the vegan leather I'm not a fan of it. I find cloth seats to be the most comfortable I don't know and I think these are very nice cloth seats. We're going to see a picture later uh In the back seat In the in the center console at the back of the center console So the front seat is going to have I'm sure uh outlets and things but the back seat Is going to have a usb c usb. It's going to have a 110 outlets. It's going to have a 440 outlet um Anyway, uh, we're also going to have a center storage compartment console and of course we got to have cup holders so Take a look at all this stuff this This is You know, this is a great drivetrain The body features and I think the truck is attractive. It's one of the lowest Certainly lowest electric trucks I think it has a great stance. I like the body look at especially in black. I mean it looks fantastic All these interior features which you come to expect in all your cars, right? There's nothing missing here nothing. I can see that's missing um Here again Everything you expect to see Uh, even the cup holders. Okay, so this is not A vanilla No option pickup truck which by the way You know the forward pro certainly is but they're only they aren't even going to make any four pros forget about buying a four pro Anyway, here's the warranty Uh, the drivetrain Is eight years a hundred thousand miles. So certainly if you're going to have a problem It's going to be in eight years or a hundred thousand miles They got roadside service Three years 36,000 miles. Okay Again Corrosion they got a five-year Unlimited mileage Warning on corrosion And people living in snowy climates you understand what this is all about with the road salts and everything And just overall basic we got a three-year 36,000 mile Warranty now these are all great the roadside The corrosion and the basic this is this is the one here. This is the drivetrain and the battery You got eight years. So anyone having any questions about you know are you know, you don't have to worry about it You got eight years Okay, and these motors have been tested extensively. I I'm pretty I'm confident that they're going to work out fine Uh, but you have got eight years and a hundred thousand miles to you know, basically Have something go wrong and I think it's going to be a very reliable system I think they're making sure of that and I think steve burns He is the one who developed this The control system for the four-wheel drive and he was Very diligent about that. So, um, I think the drivetrain is going to be solid. That was his volley work So anyway, this is the thing now the price for all this And I am I double check this and this is as of today Okay You get all this stuff I think a very full featured Uh, very usable battery electric four-wheel drive battery electric vehicle By the way that can be lifted You can put a snow plow on it Uh, you can get a bed off function You can put a flat bed on it or whatever kind of bed you want to put on it 54k after the federal And this This is competitive with the uh, forward lightning xlt Features the whole deal And you got to understand Ford isn't even making vehicles right now Hopefully fox gun is going to solve that problem for lord's time and You know, they are hiking up the destination fees For all of these forward vehicles, they're adding like two thousand dollars of vehicle now So you can add that on top of what your options option dot vehicle is And also Let's face it. You know, there's going to be dealer markups You know, how much? 10 grand 20 grand, you know That's what they're doing with the with the other four with the bronco anyway Lord's sign has a direct sales model Not i'm going to have to worry about it. There aren't going to be dealer markups. It's going to be like tesla Okay This is a great price. This is a solid price. This is the price. I believe the car is going to sell that I I think this is just a great deal great warranty I am Shocked at you know, and again, they've been spending 90 million a quarter or whatever on this and and they're doing the tooling on this and everything But you can see All of the functionality that has been added to this truck From the from the beginning it's it's it's really and I believe high tower has had a lot to do with this because um You know, he's managed a lot of vehicle programs and he really I believe is consumer focused and I think Well, obviously he knows what he's doing. Okay. This is my opinion um So the production In 2022 we have 500 units being made. Are these going to be all fleet? I think so I think they're going to send out the Nina pinta and the Santa Maria They're going to send out the fleet units. They're going to send out 500 units They're going to get the feedback on and it's my opinion That they're going to launch. I mean, I don't know they're they're saying no but They're set up to launch a consumer version. Are they going to launch a consumer version of 54k in 2023? My opinion is the consumer version is going to be coming very soon and um, the fleet version With optioned out like this. There's there's No reason to think that uh They won't sell this the fleet for I mean, you know This is the endurance fleet or consumer if they decide to sell direct to consumer All they got to do to change it from a fleet vehicle to this vehicle Is to take the governor off they have a governor on The fleet model that limits the speed to 80 miles an hour. That's for insurance purposes with fleets This truck has been run on the track. I have inside information It has been running on a road race track at 130 miles an hour Okay All they have to do is take the governor off the 80 80 mile an hour governor And boom, it's a consumer vehicle. That's all they have to change and that's an electronic change So can they change it from a fleet vehicle to a consumer vehicle? Yes, they can Do they have the options and everything to fit out a consumer vehicle? Yes, they can now this is just a Uh I'm not even sure that this is a photo. This might be a conceptual thing. I have some Photos coming up. I'm going to put in the next section of this video But this gives you an idea what the view out the cab is. I think it's a great truck I I think I love the interior. It's kind of a throwback interior It's not overdone. It's not all be dazzled like the forward Interior. I like the screen layout. I like the way The whole thing looks and um personally i'm a fan But now I just want to make some take some a minute here On some macro notes and you know, this is uh april 1 april fullsday 2022. So i'm just going to go over this We all know What's going on in the world? I just want to go over a couple things Russia has just demanded energy payments in rubles. Okay Europe Gets Most a lot of its energy Almost all of its natural gas from russia This Is a problem. Okay They're trying to you know, the international oil payment system is in dollars barrels of oil are Nominated or valued in dollars This is a major problem in the world. Okay Saudi Arabia and russia And other countries have formed, you know, they're in opac too. So there is a cartel um As a country I mean europe is in worse shape than us because I believe we've limited We can be some but the point is This is all a threat uh to the us economy And I Do believe the barrels of oil can go to 200 200 dollars a barrel. They haven't yet But we don't know what's going to happen in europe Uh, I think this is a very precarious situation the country's in now the president biden has evoked a defense production act for Battery materials for battery electric vehicles They're they're seeing the writing on the wall Okay, $200 a barrel oil means Fuel is going to cost twice as much as it costs right now, which is like six bucks a night. I paid six. So that's $12 a gallon Okay, we have to have battery electric Vehicles in the united states There's no more guessing about this uh The feature is too unpredictable. We can't base our economy in our country on these oil prices In my opinion the usa needs to have hub motor technology okay, and Lordstown motors is the only one That is developing this And I think this is critical for battery electric vehicles And a la fe the manufacturer is in slovenia. Are they at risk? I don't know but We need to have this technology and we need to be Manufacturing this top technology and do iterative improvements with this technology Uh, which you only get through manufacturing And it needs to be in the united states I The reason is This this hub motor technology is the only thing that That'll that'll give you a solid rear axle truck a battery electric vehicle Now they can make bigger hub motors They can make gigantic hub motors, okay and You can have big dump trucks and big Vehicles and big box trucks and so forth Schmidt the former president of lordstown motors was focusing on developing more powerful bigger More powerful hub motors these motors Will enable these big trucks these inboard motors and these suv suspensions are not going to work The only thing that works In this configuration with the leaf springs and the solid rear axle is Uh, the hub motor. I think it's critical for our country to have this technology and also We have to have domestic manufacturing of battery electric vehicles. Okay um This is critical uh If you saw my last video connecting the dots is doing a thing on how general motors plan to outsource all of their manufacturing of battery electric vehicles to china and You know, there's nothing that's going to stop them from doing that in the future Lordstown motors and foxconn together Are a domestic manufacturer of these vehicles is very important for our economy to have this here and to expand this So I think that In my opinion with the mac were events that are going on I think it's even more I think it's very critical That lordstown motors survives If And gets to production on these vehicles and get and gets to innovating this technology So that's my opinion. Anyway Just to sum everything up this is a great truck of 54k it is not stripped down Uh It's got everything you want. It's got the performance on-road off-road snow ice fast low light four tons four tons of towing you could tow airstream tan cherry larry your boat whatever so It's a great truck I think people are overlooking this. I know when you think of a fleet truck you think of like One of these ups trucks or something with the riveted metal interior and the you know The seat that swings back and forth. That's not what this truck is at all. And and this is current This information is all current to the best of my ability to what I could gather. So I think uh I think this is a real sleep. I think we've got a winner here and I'm Looking forward to it going into production