If you follow electric vehicle news at all, it was hard to miss the news earlier today that GM is working with Workhorse on a potential sale of their Lordstown Plant. GM sent out a press release stating that the plant would be taken over by Workhorse and “an affiliated, newly formed entity.”
GM is considering selling its shuttered Lordstown factory to Workhorse. Could there be more to the conversation. When we know, you’ll know.
In November, GM announced plans to stop producing most of its sedans and close down five North American factories, including a plant in Lordstown, Ohio, that produces the doomed Chevrolet Cruze. Some have speculated that Tesla might be interested in buying some of the soon-to-be-shuttered plants, perhaps repeating the coup the company scored when it purchased its Fremont factory from Toyota for a song in 2010. Elon Musk and Ohio Governor John Kasich batted the possibility around on Twitter, but GM CEO Mary Barra recently threw cold water on the idea, saying that Tesla wouldn’t want to buy a unionized factory.
Ohio Governor John Kasich tweeted Elon Musk last week about Tesla taking over the General Motors factory in Lordstown, Ohio. Elon replied he might consider doing so and promised an answer next year.
GM’s clean tech cred is pretty well established in the public eye through its popular Chevy Volt, and the company … [continued]
