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Lordstown Motors and Holman Enterprises Announce Co-Marketing Agreement and Expanded Alliance
Lordstown Motors CorpMarch 2, 2021 GMT
LORDSTOWN, Ohio, March 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Lordstown Motors Corp. (Nasdaq: RIDE), (“Lordstown Motors”), a leader in electric light duty trucks focused on the commercial fleet market, has entered into a set of agreements with Holman Enterprises, a global automotive services organization, including a co-marketing agreement and vehicle procurement agreement with ARI, Holman’s industry-leading leasing and fleet management services division, and an upfit services agreement with Auto Truck Group, Holman Enterprises’ vehicle fabrication and upfitting division. Together, Holman Enterprises and Lordstown Motors will help organizations easily integrate the Lordstown Endurance, the first all-electric commercial pickup truck, into their vocational fleet
Global ambition: A worker operates a car assembly line at the new automobile plant of VinFast, Vietnam’s first homegrown car manufacturer, in Haiphong. VinFast believes it can win over US and other overseas customers by offering top-quality vehicles. ─ AFP
Hanoi: Vietnamese electric-vehicle (EV) startup VinFast plans to open a United States factory after setting up a 50-member San Francisco research office as it prepares for California automobile sales in 2022.
VinFast, founded by billionaire Pham Nhat Vuong, began delivering gasoline autos to Vietnamese consumers with BMW-licensed engines in 2019. Vuong, who is also chairman of parent company Vingroup JSC, said late that year he would back the company’s US ambitions with US$2bil of his own fortune.
Holman Enterprises, Lordstown Partnership Focuses on All-Electric Pickup
March 3, 2021
Lordstown Motors Corp., a company that specializes in electric light-duty trucks, has entered into a set of agreements with Holman Enterprises, a global automotive services organization, including a co-marketing agreement and vehicle procurement agreement with ARI, Holman’s leasing and fleet management services division, and an upfit services agreement with Auto Truck Group, Holman Enterprises’ vehicle fabrication and upfitting division.
Together, Holman Enterprises and Lordstown Motors will help organizations integrate the Lordstown Endurance, an all-electric commercial pickup truck, into their vocational fleet operations.
The co-marketing agreement establishes the framework to co-develop business opportunities with Lordstown customers and ARI clients, while the vehicle procurement agreement addresses terms for the order and delivery of a set number of Lordstown Endurance trucks over a t
by Bloomberg
|Wednesday, March 03, 2021
The DOE loan-program has guaranteed hundreds of millions of dollars for Tesla Inc. and failed solar-manufacturer Solyndra LLC.
(Bloomberg) Jigar Shah, a clean-power pioneer who helped bring solar into the mainstream, has been tapped to run the U.S. Energy Department loan-program that backed Tesla Inc. and failed solar-manufacturer Solyndra LLC.
As head of the agency’s loan programs office, Shah will oversee more than $40 billion in loan authority available to support clean energy projects. His selection underscores President Joe Biden’s commitment to bringing climate to the fore. The entrepreneur is a longtime champion of clean power at entities including SunEdison Inc. and Generate, which builds, owns, operates and finances sustainable-energy projects.