The Great EVs For USPS Debate Continues As Workhorse Sues Over Lost Contract
Workhorse has sued to block the USPS contract for new vehicles that was awarded to Oshkosh Defense in February.
Workhorse has sued to block the USPS contract for new vehicles that was awarded to Oshkosh Defense in February.
Workhorse spinoff Lordstown Motors teased its new fully electric truck, dubbed the Endurance, in a new video showcasing its 6.2 million square foot factory in Lordstown, Ohio. The truck takes the lucrative design of the Workhorse W15 truck and shapes it for commercial customers. The company expects the new Endurance to be the first fully electric truck built in the US specifically for commercial customers.
Along with the news of 4 new electric vans in the UK and Europe, we’ve collected 4 other electric van stories in the past week that didn’t get their own articles but seemed worth highlighting.
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.
Workhorse has formed a strategic partnership with Prefix Corporation to prepare its NGEN electric delivery van for volume production later this year.
Workhorse and Duke Energy have formed a strategic partnership to assist customers with behind the grid charging solutions and access to favorable financing opportunities for electric delivery trucks.
The electric vehicle (EV) industry was booming in 2018. It was the most booming year of a booming decade for EVs. Below is a long, long rundown of notables changes in the industry in 2018.
News flash! GM might consider making an electric pickup truck some day in the far distant future if people are willing to pay enough to make it worth the company’s while. OK. We can all go back to sleep now.
I spent 30 minutes on the phone with Workhorse CEO Steve Burns this week and learned more about all the exciting things happening with the company. Read on to find out where this American manufacturer of electric delivery vans and pickup trucks is headed in 2019.