Lordstown Motors’ issues aren’t over simply because it is manufacturing electrical pickup vans. The fledgling model is pausing manufacturing and buyer deliveries to assist it deal with “efficiency and high quality points” with some parts in its Endurance truck. Accordingly, it is partnering with the Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Security Administration (NHTSA) on a voluntary recall to repair a connection downside that might minimize motor output whereas driving.

The recall will have an effect on 19 automobiles already on the highway, a few of which have been in use at Lordstown. The corporate is not providing an estimate as to when manufacturing will resume, however claims it is making “vital progress” on element and subsystem points holding up manufacturing. Extra particulars are anticipated to return when the agency holds its subsequent earnings name on the morning of March sixth.

The freeze is tiny in comparison with points at rivals like Tesla, which has recalled lots of of hundreds of automobiles (if regularly for software-only issues). Nevertheless, Lordstown hasn’t made many pickups thus far — it solely delivered the primary vans from its preliminary 500-unit wave in November, and stated final yr that it solely anticipated to promote 3,000 Endurance fashions by means of 2023. The halt and recall are proportionately enormous.

Lordstown additionally does not have a lot respiratory room. GM bought its stake in late 2021, only a few months after Lordstown warned it did not come up with the money for to make its signature truck. The startup then raised funds by promoting its plant to manufacturing heavyweight Foxconn. It deepened the connection in November in change for 2 Foxconn-chosen seats on the board of administrators. There’s strain on Lordstown to show issues round, and setbacks like this do not assist.