Youngstown’s hopes for reinvention fade as electric truck firm sputters

Lordstown Motors promised to bring the good times back to the once thriving Ohio town, but locals are braced for more disappointment

It's less than a year since Lordstown Motors was touted as the future for the Youngstown, Ohio, the once thriving steel and manufacturing city that has struggled to reinvent itself in the post-industrial age.

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