RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2022

RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

NOTE 6 — RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

On November 7, 2019, the Company entered into a transaction with Workhorse Group Inc., for the purpose of obtaining certain intellectual property. In connection with granting this license, Workhorse Group received 10% of the outstanding Legacy Lordstown common stock and was entitled to royalties of 1% of the gross sales price of the first 200,000 vehicle sales. In November 2020, we pre-paid a royalty payment to Workhorse Group in the amount of $4.75 million. The upfront royalty payment represented an advance on the royalties discussed above but only to the extent that the aggregate amount of such royalty fees exceeded the amount paid upfront. The upfront royalty payment was recorded as other non-current assets as of March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021.

During the year ended December 31, 2021, we continued to refine the design of the Endurance and considered technologies we would use in future vehicles. Given the lack of Workhorse technology used in the Endurance and new management’s strategic direction of the Company, inclusive of the transactions contemplated with Foxconn as detailed in Note 1, we deemed it appropriate to change the useful life of the technology we acquired from Workhorse to zero months. As such, we recorded accelerated amortization of $11.1 million during the third quarter of 2021.

As of September 30, 2021, Workhorse Group was no longer determined to be a related party.