Maybe coming back? Saw an interesting post on Instagram a couple days ago.
Greetings All,
It's been a while and I am dreadfully sorry for the lack of communication.
Thank you all for your kind words and continued support of the EarthCruiser and the people that make it possible.
For EarthCruiser continuing to manufacture products in Bend was becoming unsustainable as some of critical local suppliers had either closed or were planning to change their operations. Supply chain ever increasing costs and distance from key components were becoming untenable.
We did our absolute best to create a sustainable infrastructure and supply chain to keep manufacturing here, but after many years, and despite the crew's constant best efforts, it was just not sustainable for us anymore. Ideal for innovation and design, not scaled manufacturing of our vehicles.
What was worse is how the transition to an alternative manufacturing model and change to business operations was handled. I hired the wrong people who had the wrong motivation. It was my fault I hired them. What was to be a straightforward restructure turned into a free for all. We followed some bad advice, and big mistakes were made it`s that simple.
Most important, all of our commitments to those who wished to remain in the build schedule will be complete in the next few weeks. That commitment has been our number one focus before we start the next chapter. We are grateful to those customers, it's been a bumpy ride.
Creating the systems to build and deliver repeatable production overland vehicles that are worthy of the name is where we spent our time and energy over all these years. The lessons learned and processes created are being relocated to more manufacturing friendly location/s in North America.
The aim is to make the EarthCruiser range of products more attainable than ever before. We will be having a soft launch and reopening the order books shortly for selected EarthCruiser models.
Investment in the famous EarthCruiser crew is paying off with a number of them branching off into their own enterprises in Central Oregon including vehicle services. We are very proud of them for their successes.
We look forward to keeping in touch a bit more.
All the Best Lance , Michelle
Greetings All,
It's been a while and I am dreadfully sorry for the lack of communication.
Thank you all for your kind words and continued support of the EarthCruiser and the people that make it possible.
For EarthCruiser continuing to manufacture products in Bend was becoming unsustainable as some of critical local suppliers had either closed or were planning to change their operations. Supply chain ever increasing costs and distance from key components were becoming untenable.
We did our absolute best to create a sustainable infrastructure and supply chain to keep manufacturing here, but after many years, and despite the crew's constant best efforts, it was just not sustainable for us anymore. Ideal for innovation and design, not scaled manufacturing of our vehicles.
What was worse is how the transition to an alternative manufacturing model and change to business operations was handled. I hired the wrong people who had the wrong motivation. It was my fault I hired them. What was to be a straightforward restructure turned into a free for all. We followed some bad advice, and big mistakes were made it`s that simple.
Most important, all of our commitments to those who wished to remain in the build schedule will be complete in the next few weeks. That commitment has been our number one focus before we start the next chapter. We are grateful to those customers, it's been a bumpy ride.
Creating the systems to build and deliver repeatable production overland vehicles that are worthy of the name is where we spent our time and energy over all these years. The lessons learned and processes created are being relocated to more manufacturing friendly location/s in North America.
The aim is to make the EarthCruiser range of products more attainable than ever before. We will be having a soft launch and reopening the order books shortly for selected EarthCruiser models.
Investment in the famous EarthCruiser crew is paying off with a number of them branching off into their own enterprises in Central Oregon including vehicle services. We are very proud of them for their successes.
We look forward to keeping in touch a bit more.
All the Best Lance , Michelle
