Lutom was a Chinese low-speed electric-vehicle marque used by Shandong Guangming Machinery Manufacturing Corporation, a Taian, Shandong-based manufacturer that had been reorganized as a private company in 2005 from an earlier military-industrial enterprise. Within the company’s electric-vehicle business, Lutom identified a line of small four-wheeled battery-electric cars, while other Guangming brands covered related products such as tricycles and additional microcar series. The marque operated in the budget end of China’s…