A longtime real estate investor and former Goldman Sachs executive decided to take an electric truck company public. Chaos ensued.
The start-up gained attention by purchasing a shuttered General Motors factory in Ohio in 2019. At the time, G.M. was under pressure from President Trump to find a buyer for the plant.
Lordstown said last week that it needed to raise more money and might not survive. Now, the company’s new executive chairwoman has said “It’s a new day at Lordstown Motors.”
The company’s top executive resigned after the struggling automaker released an investigation by its board.
Analysts credit the new chief executive, Jim Farley, with energizing the automaker, which still faces challenges.
Analysts credit the new chief executive, Jim Farley, with energizing the automaker, which still faces challenges.
Arrival, a developer of electric vans and buses, says it has come up with a cheaper way to build vehicles in small factories. But can it deliver on that promise?
A lawsuit by Wisk, partly owned by the Google co-founder Larry Page, says two engineers took sensitive files and data before joining Archer.
The share price fell by more than 10 percent on Friday morning, a drop that comes as the company faces more competition in the United States and China.
Rivian, which has raised another $2.65 billion, plans to sell a pickup truck and S.U.V. it has worked on for more than a decade.