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FEBRUARY 2023 I PCB007 MAGAZINE 51 ducing its PEAR model EV in 2024. An esti- mated 250,000 PEAR units are slated to be produced per year. rough the partnership, LMC is on schedule to begin producing an all-electric pickup truck, the Endurance, later this year. is will undoubtably be the training plant for automotive engineers as Foxconn and China do not currently train automotive engi- neers like the U.S., Japan, and Germany. Strong Competition Foxconn has just announced a plan to spend $201.9 million to build a battery cell R&D and trial mass production center at the Kaohsiung Hofa Industrial Park in Taiwan, with a goal to begin mass-producing lithium iron phosphate batteries in the first quarter of 2024. But Tesla, with its multiple new plants and battery operations, has a long head start on Figure 5: Pre-production Lordstown Endurance electric pickup trucks being tested at the Lordstown Motors facility in Farmington Hills, Michigan. 8 Figure 6: The Lordstown Endurance electric pickup began production in the third quarter 2022, with deliveries in the fourth quarter 2022. 8