In America’s ‘Voltage Valley’, hopes of car-making revival turn sour
by Tom Perkins in Lordstown, Ohio from Technology | The Guardian on (#6D05B)
EV manufacturer Lordstown Motors, lauded by Trump in 2020, has gone bankrupt - what now for the once-proud auto-making region?
When Lordstown Motors, an electric vehicles (EV) manufacturer in Ohio's Mahoning Valley, declared bankruptcy last month, it was the latest blow to a region that has seen decades of extravagant promises fail to deliver.
The 5,000 new jobs executives vowed to create in 2020 generated fresh hope for the shuttered General Motors Lordstown plant, which once functioned as an economic engine for the area and a critical piece of the nation's industrial heartland.
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