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Old 12-15-2020, 07:07 PM   #1
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Lordstown (Workhorse) joining with camping world to make Electric EV's and Class E MH

Interesting read. I believe GM has a stake in this as well. All Camping worlds will be service centres.

https://electrek.co/2020/12/15/lords...ice-locations/
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If it's like anything else that Camping World does, having them (CW) as the service centers will be a HUGE failure!

I tried to call our local CW to see if they had a $1000 tow bar in stock. After calling and speaking to the operator three times to get someone to answer the phone in parts, she finally said they were too busy to answer the phone.
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I did not see Workhorse mentioned in the linked article. I think you will find that Workhorse and Lordstown are 2 different companies. Today’s Workhorse is a totally different company than the one that made Class A MH chassis prior to 2013.
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I did not see Workhorse mentioned in the linked article. I think you will find that Workhorse and Lordstown are 2 different companies. Today’s Workhorse is a totally different company than the one that made Class A MH chassis prior to 2013.
Yah I’m not sure of the corporate relationship there anymore. I know the roots of Lordstown was workhorse and I have tended to associate the two but now I read those ties have been cut. I know GM has purchased some common stock in Lordstown but not sure how invested they are.

Thanks for the tip.
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The proposed pickup is the Endurance. It is to have hub motors. Lordstown Motors bought the intellectual rights to the Workhorse w-15 pickup. Workhouse Corp owns 10% of Lordstown Motors. They make electric delivery vans. Workhorse.com.
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The proposed pickup is the Endurance. It is to have hub motors. Lordstown Motors bought the intellectual rights to the Workhorse w-15 pickup. Workhouse Corp owns 10% of Lordstown Motors. They make electric delivery vans. Workhorse.com.
Good info. Thanks.
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Yah I’m not sure of the corporate relationship there anymore. I know the roots of Lordstown was workhorse and I have tended to associate the two but now I read those ties have been cut. I know GM has purchased some common stock in Lordstown but not sure how invested they are.

Thanks for the tip.

All 3 companies are public owned & traded on stock exchanges, so there must be some way to track the financial deals.......


As I understand it, GM "sold" their Lordstown facility to the current EV company by "loaning" them the $$ to make the purchase, and GM apparently got an ownership stake in the EV start-up company as collateral for the loan. This "arrangement", and the one between Lordstown Motors and Workhorse Group, are examples of how confusing it can be for us laymen to really know what is going on in the push to minimize use of fossil fuels in vehicles.


Don't get me started about NY State's program to give taxpayer $$ to large public for-profit Corporations (like FedEx and UPS) to subsidize their purchase of EVs that replace diesel-powered "final delivery" vehicles. Both Lordstown and Workhorse stand to benefit from these "grants", and neither of them is located in NY State.
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We're going to need more fossil fuel power plants to keep up with the growing electric vehicle market.

Goods news for my fossil fuel producing state.
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We're going to need more fossil fuel power plants to keep up with the growing electric vehicle market.

Goods news for my fossil fuel producing state.
Heh heh. Well, so far just the opposite is happening in many parts of the world....but you never know. .
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