![]() ![]() Local United Auto Workers members hope contract talks now between GM and the UAW will result in the automaker assigning a new vehicle to the unallocated plant. ![]() ![]() Also during that time, officials renewed their calls for GM to assign a new vehicle to the plant, which for about 10 years had produced one of the company’s better-selling vehicles - the Chevrolet Cruze. Questions about Workhorse’s financial stability have risen since it became public the company would be connected to the Lordstown plant. “In the end, we believe this will be the proverbial win-win,” Hughes said. Hughes said combining Workhorse technology and the Lordstown facility will give the company the “greatest benefit in monetizing its pickup technology. In March, production at the plant stopped as part of GM’s plan to idle four of its U.S. GM announced in May it was in talks to unload the plant to the fledgling company operated by Workhorse founder and former CEO Steve Burns. “Because the W-15 truck we built a couple years ago was born from our design and development of our six prototype postal service vehicles, we believe that when the new W-15 comes to market in Lordstown - because they can build the W-15, which is predicated on the same parts, the same underlying type of infrastructure - it would easily allow for the post office vehicles to be built in Lordstown,” Hughes said. ![]()
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