Bollinger Motors, manufacturer of the most “badass” commercial electric vehicles (EVs)—a name the OEM gave its own products—has died, sources close to the company have confirmed.
At least, that’s how the obituary would read if the industry provided them for auto manufacturers and their products.
It wasn’t a sudden passing. The company had required resuscitation back in the summer. Then the week before Thanksgiving, it appeared the company was yet again knocking on heaven’s door.
Bollinger Motors ends its run as a commercial EV OEM
After a bumpy first year as a bona fide OEM, the Detroit Free Press broke the news last week that Bollinger Motors had not paid its employees for two pay periods. By Monday morning, I received an email from my Bollinger Motors communications rep that he no longer represented the company, as the CEO of Bollinger Motors’ parent company, Bollinger Innovations, had officially pulled the plug on the badass trucks.
In 2015, Robert Bollinger started his namesake company in his garage building a boxy electric SUV from the ground up. In 2022, the company shifted its operations to serve only the commercial market with the Class 4 Bollinger B4. While the company made it to OEM status with a truck in production, it has had one foot in the grave since its third month of production.
