 everybody this is MXUX I just want to do a quick recap on this Baja race the San Felipe 2001 San Felipe 250 with the LMC endurance just want to go over this is the last of my video series on this race let's get right to the slides okay I just want to go over some things I said in my previous videos I was pretty eviscerated in the comments but I'm gonna stick to my guns well I'm gonna give grade myself here doesn't race I get these are the these are the reasons I gave for the endurance not having the range everybody thought it should and for finishing the race not finishing the race and by the way many many many many vehicles did not finish the race it was not an unusual occurrence alright first thing I said desert racing tires hub tire size lowered the range of the vehicle I was close on this it's a known fact with EVs I was corrected in the comments I didn't get the tire size right it was 37 not 40 I didn't do the calculation quite right I'm gonna give myself a pass on this it definitely was an issue it definitely made a difference it does make a difference anybody doesn't agree with me I think you're wrong okay second thing I said was a stage for five hours in the 88 degree temperatures and the battery automatic battery cooling system was on draining range from the EV battery because they're staging well I was wrong on the five hours it was an hour and a half they started got it written down here they started at 930 and they went off down the track about 11 so it was an hour and a half stage now I just wanted I want to give myself a D on this they could have been in line for more than one and a half hours they might you know just because they said they started at 9 you know they could have lined up early okay this this happens and you know this still could have been an issue maybe not when I said I'd love to hear from somebody who was there who could tell me just how long they were in line because I do think this is an issue but I'm gonna give myself a D on this because I said the time wrong I had to start time quoted by somebody of 215 I was wrong the third thing I said that everybody disagreed with is that this was a trophy truck with a street pickup truck gas tank in it trophy truck has 102 gallon tank the endurance had the equivalent of a 20 gallon tank okay and this depends on semantics a lot of people busted my job said no it's not a trophy truck well you know what it's a breath of brothers build it's 600 horse with our all-wheel drive you know a custom drive train you say tomato I say tomato sorry also on the gas equivalency I think I was basically correct conceptually on that I was just trying to point out that with the stock battery there's no way these the endurance C414 was gonna run had to head with the trophy truck it's gonna have a limited range and that was the point I was making I give myself a pass on that so would I get all over overall pass pass D so it's out of C I'm gonna give myself a B minus okay now here's what the CEO said I gathered this from a couple different sources this is just an overall summary the truck used more energy than plan the terrain was rough I think that's the quote it used they they plan their race plan was for three times normal energy use so whatever that was required to run that with regular it would be three times as much charge required the actual usage was four times okay it was 25 percent more there was some people on Reddit and so forth that had caught that had also calculated a three times normal energy use this was not out of line a lot of people really said they were way out of line on this look I want to make a point and I said this in my comments hey look at the races how many times have you seen a race where a car ran out of gas on the last lap going to the finish line things happen in racing you know you do your best and the unexpected get you the black swan get you so anyway they started late in the pack all the ATV's and then the trophy trucks and everything else the spec trucks all ran ahead of them and the track was soft when they hit it okay it was like walking through beach sand it wasn't packed down at all the tires didn't roll on top of it they plowed through it many many other teams ice teams had issues with mileage as well okay so this was a common problem in this year's race now here's the by way of explanation now they had brought some generator powered fast charge trucks they're like big trucks that you know two ton trucks or whatever with the boxes on the back that had generators in them to charge the endurance the next leg of the race after the one they completed was through the mountains through mountain pass and so forth I don't know if it was the Manitobi wash or whatever whatever that particular wash is but anyway these trucks couldn't get anywhere near it evidently they didn't have the capability or the roads or the access roads or they weren't able to handle that terrain whatever the case may be they could not have made it back up up there to charge it the truck to make sure it could go through these they did not so as a result they can only charge it on the flatlands they didn't want to truck block the mountain pass but it caused a riot so they pulled out of the race makes sense to me they charged and they ran 10 more miles to just the truck components and let's just say all the factory components work perfectly on this truck they said they couldn't build a battery they did they said the battery catch on fire I didn't they said the hub motors working would work they did the frame was perfect all the control systems for the traction control everything work everything held up all the wiring harness held up everything so I I just want to remind everybody a lot of trucks didn't finish this race and a lot of racers miscalculated the course conditions as well so that's that let me play this and by the way everybody on the comments yes I am an idiot sometimes whatever all right let me play the video let me see if I could do this without screwing up this is the original the the formal response from Steve Burns at Lordstown Motors we are creating an electric full-size pickup truck and that's truck and even though pickup trucks are the three top best-selling vehicles in America there isn't an electric pickup truck available in the market yet as we've been creating the endurance we've come to realize that the reason for that is probably because pickup trucks are expected to be extremely versatile machines capable of hauling towing and off-roading to achieve that sort of functionality we had to invent an electric drivetrain like no other before it we've been testing our endurance and we thought a trip to Baja would be the most extreme off-roading we could find so we made history by entering the San Felipe 250 race on April 17 2021 the grueling terrain the heat the deep fine sand the G forces really tested our hubs our battery pack in our frame all which were great we didn't finish the race because the desert terrain really uses a lot of energy more than we had anticipated and so the fast chargers we had brought we couldn't get one up in a mountain range so we decided best not to take that leg and possibly block the trail for somebody else so we charged and then we went out and continue to test after we dropped out of the race all that testing before the race during the race after the race all that data makes its way into every endurance and later this year when we come out with any endurance you can bet there'll be a little bit of Baja in every endurance thank you I'm Steve Burns CEO and founder of Wardstown Motors okay everybody's looking for transparency there it is guys I I thought the race was exciting you never know what's gonna happen in racing that's what's so cool about it so anyway that's my final response final video on this race I believe I hope you guys enjoyed it thanks for watching I hope you took checked out my other videos all right let's get to the creepy music here alright guys I think that was a good showing really and you know Lordstown is on track to have this truck out in September the employees at the plan are saying they're all on schedule to do it they're rolling out the betas looks like it's gonna be the first EV pickup truck in production in America or the world I think it's gonna beat the Cybertruck and I think it's gonna beat the Riviera so thanks for watching guys hope you liked the video