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LORDSTOWN The auto startup rehabbing the former General Motors assembly plant to mass produce electric pickup trucks made big news in 2020.
As Lordstown Motors Corp. barrels toward the 2021 production launch of its Endurance, it made tremendous strides last year toward that end, perhaps most notably, the public reveal of the truck in June at its Lordstown facility.
The company has pushed through struggles with the viral pandemic, which ultimately caused a production delay, but the pandemic didn’t seem to impact its merger in October with New York-based DiamondPeak Holdings Corp. that turned the private company public.
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WARREN Sure, the viral outbreak dominated the headlines this year; it bludgeoned businesses, caused joblessness to spiral out of control and threw the economy into a tailspin.
No doubt, COVID-19 was the No. 1 news story of the year, but dig a bit deeper and there was some positive local business-related news in the mix. So without further delay, the top 10 business stories, excluding the pandemic, this year in Trumbull and Mahoning counties:
1. Mahoning Valley part of GM’s electric future
General Motors announced Jan. 14 it had selected a 158-acre plot of land in Lordstown adjacent to its former automaking plant to build a $2.3 billion battery-cell manufacturing plant, a decision that meant upward of 1,100 new jobs here.
LORDSTOWN A trio of Democratic U.S. lawmakers from Ohio are urging congressional appropriators to keep intact a loan program considering an application from upstart electric truck company Lordstown Motors Corp.
They say cutting money from or eliminating the Advanced Technology Vehicles Loan Program in any year-end government funding legislation would harm investment in manufacturing across the U.S. and particularly in Lordstown, where Lordstown Motors is preparing a former General Motors assembly plant to produce electric pickup trucks.
The government is operating on a continuing resolution set to expire midnight Friday.
U.S. Reps. Tim Ryan of Howland and Marcia Fudge of Cleveland, and U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown sent a letter Wednesday to appropriators as they continue to hash out a 2021 federal spending plan.