DETROIT: Electric truck startup Lordstown Motors said on Tuesday (Wednesday in America) it lacks sufficient capital to begin commercial production and warned about the ability to keep operating.

The company, which had targeted commercial production to begin in September, has just $587 million in cash, which is "not sufficient to fund commercial scale production and launch sale of such vehicles," Lordstown said in a securities filing.

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