Six US makers are verified here as putting a new original vehicle into production since 2016
A broad scan covered mainstream automakers, EV startups and small-volume specialists. Six manufacturers survived the strict production-or-customer-delivery screen in the extracted evidence; Vanderhall is the only maker with two qualifying launches in the result set, while Lordstown later ceased operating.
6
verified manufacturers
7
qualifying model launches
2016–26
release-year span
5
small-volume or startup makers
operatingdefunct
1
The map is dispersed, not Detroit-centric. Only GM is headquartered in Detroit; the specialist group stretches from Richland, Washington to Sleepy Hollow, New York.
2
Low-volume builders dominate the count. SSC, SCG, Drako and Vanderhall make the anthology broader than a conventional mass-market list. newatlas.com
3
Affordability splits sharply. The extracted launch prices run from about $30,000 for the Bolt and Venice to hypercar territory; blank cells remain unresolved rather than estimated.
4
“Most popular” needs different evidence at small scale. The Bolt has a reported 79,000-unit global year; for boutique firms, the table uses the best-documented released flagship rather than pretending comparable sales totals exist. freep.com
Released flagship by manufacturer
| Manufacturer | HQ | Model used | Year | Launch price | Photo / evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Motors | Detroit, MI | Chevrolet Bolt | 2016 | $29,990 | photo · source |
| Vanderhall Motor Works | Provo, UT | Venice | 2017 | $29,950 | photo · source |
| SSC North America | Richland, WA | Tuatara | 2019 | — | photo · source |
| Drako Motors | San Jose, CA | GTE | 2020 | — | source / image |
| Lordstown Motors | Lordstown, OH | Endurance | 2022 | — | source / image |
| Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus | Sleepy Hollow, NY | SCG 004 | 2024 | — | source / image |
Method: 5 structured web queries scanning roughly 16,000 merged search hits on 25 Aug 2026; seven model-level records were retained and normalized to six manufacturers. Release means production or customer delivery, not concept reveal. Prices are extracted launch/base figures where resolved; “—” means unresolved. HQ markers use city-centre coordinates for geographic depiction. This is a verified research anthology, not a legal census of every NHTSA-registered manufacturer.