Why Building an EV Is Brutal: The Rise and Fall of Bollinger Motors

It's a tough goodbye as we chart Bollinger Motors’ rise, pivot, and fall. We have followed the company's progress from an elegant, fixable EV truck vision to an ambitious medium-duty chassis play that ran headlong into the realities of capital, volume, and time. We walk through the funding twists, the move from contract manufacturing to a dedicated plant, and why selling only a handful of vehicles can doom even smart engineering. It’s a candid look at what it really takes to build hardware in a deeply capital-intensive industry.