General Motors is selling its Lordstown, Ohio, plant that it closed earlier this year to Workhorse, which plans to use it to build electric trucks.
New York General Motors is in talks to sell the Lordstown, Ohio, plant that it closed earlier this year to Workhorse, which would use it to build electric trucks.
Workhorse's interest in buying the plant was announced in a Wednesday morning tweet by President Donald Trump, who portrayed it as a done deal and hailed the move."With all the car companies coming back, and much more, THE USA IS BOOMING!," he tweeted. He praised GM CEO Mary Barra, who he said had informed him of the deal, which he said would be"subject to a UAW agreement etc." Trump has been very critical of Barra and GM up until now.
— Donald J. Trump May 8, 2019 GM announced plans in November to close Lordstown, along with three other US plants and one in Canada, as it sought to cut cost and free up cash for development of next generation electric and self-driving vehicles. The Lordstown plant had already had two shifts eliminated since January of 2017 and had 1,600 hourly and salaried jobs at the time of the announcement.
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