Lordstown Motors
Trump Shows Off Lordstown Motors’ Endurance Electric Pickup Truck
President Trump speaks while Steve Burns, chief executive officer of Lordstown Motors Corp., right, listens during a tour of the new Endurance electric pickup truck on the South Lawn of the White House Sept. 28. (Ken Cedeno/Sipa via Bloomberg News)
WASHINGTON — The day before traveling to Cleveland for his first presidential debate with Democratic nominee Joe Biden, President Donald Trump inspected the new Endurance electric pickup truck from Ohio’s Lordstown Motors outside the White House, claiming success for boosting the region’s economy after General Motors shuttered its plant that made the Chevrolet Cruze.
September 28, 2020Ohio Trucker Touts Trump’s Handling of Lordstown in RNC Video
Youngstown, Ohio, truck driver Geno DiFabio (left) talks with Vice President Mike Pence in a prerecorded video that played during the Republican National Convention Aug. 25. (RNC via Global Broadcasting/YouTube)
CLEVELAND — Youngstown, Ohio, trucker Geno DiFabio received prime time billing at this week’s Republican National Convention, appearing in a video Aug. 25 with Vice President Mike Pence praising President Donald Trump’s handling of the Lordstown General Motors assembly plant closure.
August 26, 2020Lordstown Motors Goes Public Following Reverse Merger
The Lordstown Motors Endurance electric pick-up is seen at a launch event in Ohio on June 25. (Tony Dejak/Associated Press)
Lordstown Motors Corp., the electric-truck startup that stepped in to save a shuttered General Motors Co. factory in Ohio, will be listed on the Nasdaq and gain an infusion of $675 million through a merger with a publicly traded funding vehicle.
August 3, 2020Workhorse Valued at $1 Billion
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks during the Lordstown Motors unveiling event in Ohio June 25. Workhorse has a 10% stake in the company. (Matthew Hatcher/Bloomberg News)
Shares of Workhorse Group Inc., a maker of electric delivery vehicles, are surging as investors bet the Trump administration will want the company and a fellow Ohio-based affiliate to succeed.
June 30, 2020Lordstown Motors Debuts Electric Truck as Market Heats Up
The Lordstown Motors Endurance truck, unveiled June 25. (Lordstown Motors)
The company that bought the aging Lordstown, Ohio, auto factory from General Motors last year unveiled an electric pickup truck it plans to build at the plant, one of many new electric light-trucks manufacturers plan to start selling over the next two years.
June 25, 2020In Ohio, Lordstown Motors Is a Glint of Hope Among Heartbreak
An American flag flies in front of the closed GM plant in Lordstown, Ohio, in 2019. (Matthew Hatcher/Bloomberg News)
In a cavernous Northeast Ohio factory that General Motors Co. left last year, a small group of engineers is coaxing dormant robots back to life — one by one — in a long-shot bid to build a new type of pickup truck.
June 24, 2020