El peor temor de Lordstown Motors se ha hecho realidad, ya que el fabricante de camionetas el\u00e9ctricas se declar\u00f3 en quiebra el martes en un movimiento para ponerse a la venta. Esto se produce tras meses de enfrentamientos con la taiwanesa Foxconn por no haber cumplido una inversi\u00f3n prometida.<\/p>\n
El fabricante de autom\u00f3viles, que debe su nombre a su ciudad natal de Ohio, solicit\u00f3 la protecci\u00f3n del Cap\u00edtulo 11 en un tribunal de quiebras de Delaware. En la demanda, Lordstown Motors acus\u00f3 a Foxconn de conducta fraudulenta y de una serie de promesas incumplidas, que hicieron imposible la supervivencia de Lordstown.<\/p>\n
Lordstown lleva ahora a Foxconn ante los tribunales por las acusaciones.<\/p>\n
Sin embargo, Foxconn, formalmente llamada Hon Hai Precision Industry y m\u00e1s conocida por ensamblar los iPhones de Apple, hab\u00eda acusado antes a Lordstown de incumplir el acuerdo. En mayo<\/a>, el floreciente fabricante de veh\u00edculos el\u00e9ctricos recibi\u00f3 una carta de Foxconn en la que se afirmaba que la start-up hab\u00eda incumplido el contrato de inversi\u00f3n porque el valor de sus acciones hab\u00eda ca\u00eddo por debajo de un d\u00f3lar por acci\u00f3n durante 30 d\u00edas consecutivos de cotizaci\u00f3n, lo que provoc\u00f3 una notificaci\u00f3n de exclusi\u00f3n de la bolsa estadounidense Nasdaq.<\/p>\n Al mismo tiempo, la cuesti\u00f3n se ven\u00eda gestando desde hac\u00eda alg\u00fan tiempo. Foxconn y Lordstown hab\u00edan llegado a un acuerdo en noviembre de 2022<\/a> seg\u00fan el cual Foxconn invertir\u00eda hasta $170 millones (154 millones de euros) en la startup estadounidense, lo que supone una participaci\u00f3n de casi 20%. Foxconn pag\u00f3 los primeros $52,7 millones adeudados el a\u00f1o pasado. Pero ante la notificaci\u00f3n de exclusi\u00f3n de cotizaci\u00f3n del Nasdaq, nunca se efectuaron m\u00e1s pagos de Foxconn. Aunque, seg\u00fan los t\u00e9rminos del acuerdo original y de acuerdo con Lordstown, Foxconn deb\u00eda invertir los $47,3 millones restantes y completar conjuntamente un plan para desarrollar un nuevo veh\u00edculo el\u00e9ctrico antes de mayo de 2023.<\/p>\n En su lugar, en junio, Lordstown repiti\u00f3 sus advertencias de quiebra en una declaraci\u00f3n de la SEV, amenazando ya entonces con emprender acciones legales puesto que Foxconn segu\u00eda sin cumplir su compromiso de inversi\u00f3n.<\/p>\n Y aqu\u00ed es donde terminaron.<\/p>\n El futuro de la Endurance sigue siendo una inc\u00f3gnita, pero tambi\u00e9n el mayor activo de Lordstown.<\/p>\n Edward Hightower, Consejero Delegado y Presidente de Lordstown, declar\u00f3: \"Como uno de los primeros participantes en la industria de los veh\u00edculos el\u00e9ctricos, hemos fabricado el Endurance, un veh\u00edculo el\u00e9ctrico innovador y de gran capacidad con un importante potencial comercial y de venta al por menor, y posteriormente nos hab\u00edamos comprometido con Foxconn en una asociaci\u00f3n decidida y estrat\u00e9gica para aprovechar esta experiencia en una plataforma de desarrollo de veh\u00edculos el\u00e9ctricos m\u00e1s amplia. A pesar de nuestros mejores esfuerzos y nuestro serio compromiso con la asociaci\u00f3n, Foxconn fracas\u00f3 voluntaria y repetidamente en la ejecuci\u00f3n de la estrategia acordada.\"<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" El peor temor de Lordstown Motors se ha hecho realidad, ya que el fabricante de camionetas el\u00e9ctricas se declar\u00f3 en quiebra el martes, en una maniobra para ponerse en<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":148336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9930],"tags":[3701,16877,19644,7405,14969],"class_list":["post-201074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-automobile","tag-bev","tag-electric-pickups","tag-lordstown-motors","tag-startup","tag-stock-market"],"acf":{"inhalt_teil2":" Lordstwon Motors was considered a high-profile player among the EV startups, at least for some time, because it was targeting the high-margin pickup trucks segment and because of its location. The city of Lordstown is known for General Motors’ Lordstown Assembly, an automotive plant that produced compact cars from 1966 until 2019 before the startup took over.<\/p>\n When Foxconn came in, Lordstown essentially agreed to divest its manufacturing facility, one of the largest in North America, along with its staff. This, Lordstown said today, was in the belief that Foxconn would support the Endurance pickup truck “in a variety of ways and follow through on a joint vehicle development program, leveraging what was purported to be Foxconn’s established and extensive EV ecosystem and meeting its commitments to the Lordstown community”.<\/p>\n However, in the lawsuit, Lordstown beholds that “Foxconn had no intention of living up to its commitments, particularly concerning the new vehicle development platform”. Instead, the Taiwanese company used the arrangements “as a tool to maliciously and in bad faith destroy Lordstown’s business\u2014while leveraging resources gained through the partnership to advance its own business interests,” so the statement to shareholders.<\/p>\n Alleged intentions aside, Foxconn has indeed made advances in the e-mobility market on its own. So far, it has unveiled three electric cars<\/a> based on its MIH platform in 2022 and announced more. Plus, in Lordstown, Foxconn is not only manufacturing the Lordstown Endurance<\/span><\/a>. The Fisker Pear will also be produced at the plant in 2024. Foxconn is pursuing further plant plans in Saudi Arabia<\/a>\u00a0and Thailand, among other places.<\/p>\n Lordstown has filed motions with the Court to commence a marketing and sale process under US Bankruptcy Code. The company points out that the Endurance is a fully homologated and certified, production-launched vehicle “that can serve as a springboard for the right OEM or other strategic purchaser” to jump onto America’s truck market “at a fraction of the cost and time it would take to develop a program from the ground-up”.<\/p>\n It remains to be seen who may do exactly that.<\/p>\n Foxconn has yet to comment.<\/p>\n Yet, independent of the lawsuit and proceedings, the Lordstown management could do some soul-searching since operations had rarely been smooth. In 2022 alone, investor General Motors left<\/a>, followed by a\u00a0management shift<\/a>\u00a0in the summer. That had not been a major downhill from the company\u2019s 2021 year, where an\u00a0investigation was undertaken by the US Justice Department<\/a>\u00a0and the announcement of a\u00a0serious cash flow issue<\/a>, which had\u00a0delayed the production launch<\/a>\u00a0of their vehicles as well.<\/p>\n reuters.com<\/a>, lordstownmotors.com<\/a><\/p>\n"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290203,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201074\/revisions\/290203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\u00bfQu\u00e9 saldr\u00e1 de la camioneta Endurance?<\/h3>\n