Earlier this year, March to be precise, an EV start-up company, Lunaz, went into receivership (basically bankruptcy) in the UK only to re-open a few weeks later.
Lunaz is based at Silverstone Park in Northamptonshire and is famously backed by David Beckham who liked the job they had done converting one of his classic cars to an EV. He then took a financial position in the company, but it wasn’t all plain sailing.
The company was founded in 2019 by David Lorenz with the aim of specialising in converting classic cars to EV power trains (heresy I say!). But then they got big ideas and ventured into retro
fitting public service vehicles.
Back in March of this year they shut-up shop blaming the governments decision to delay the ban on Internal Combustion Engines (ICE) powered cars from 2030 to 2035—nothing to do with a bad idea or poor management then.
After a restructure and the closure of the division that was retrofitting bin trucks to EVs, the company has once again opened its doors. Lorenz announced that the company had a “new structure that lays the foundations for the long-term sustainable growth of the business” .
The conversion of passenger vehicles will be the initial focus of Lunaz 2.0 but they still have ambitions to get in to the Up-cycled business (as retrofitting seems to be called now) with the trial of a new electrified 26 tonne refuse truck to be unveiled at the end of the summer.
A communique from the company stated, “This ensures we are ready to meet immediate demand for vehicle electrification services and are fit to scale in direct response to volume requirements as major markets build towards legislative bans on internal combustion engine commercial vehicles.” Not sure that I agree, but Mr Beckham is still involved and now we can really say he is in the rubbish business.
Why so many old Range Rovers? Oh yes, they were rubbish to start with…
