Lordstown Motors plans Endurance reveal against capital raising deadline

Lordstown Endurance Sketch

Lordstown Motors Corp. (LMC) will unveil the commercial fleet-focused Endurance electric pickup truck next week even as a deadline looms to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to convert a closed General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) small car plant to full-size electric truck production.

GM holds a $40 million mortgage, allowing LMC to operate while it seeks investors. LMC, led by former Workhorse Group (NASDAQ:WKHS) CEO Steve Burns, paid $20 million for the 6.2 million-square-foot assembly complex...

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Workhorse looks to scale electric truck production (with video)

Workhorse electric truck

Workhorse Group Inc. (NASDAQ: WKHS) hopes to borrow money to scale production of its composite-body electric trucks even as growing interest in its patented truck-based Horsefly  drone could accelerate its business plan.

The Cincinnati-based last-mile delivery company said Wednesday it conducted 54 Horsefly test missions with United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS) and the Virginia Center for Innovative Technology in late April.

“Interest has ballooned due to the COVID-19 virus, the individual state...

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