By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Electric pickup truck start-up Lordstown Motors is pursuing a $200 million loan from a U.S. Energy Department program to retool a former General Motors (N:) factory in northeast Ohio, Chief Executive Steve Burns told Reuters. Burns met with Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette on MondayRead More →
© Reuters. Automobile awards The golden steering wheel in Berlin By Naomi Tajitsu and Peter Henderson (Reuters) – Tesla Inc (O:) on Thursday unveiled its first electric pickup truck that looked like a futuristic angular armored vehicle in gunmetal gray, as the California company took aim at the heart ofRead More →
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: General Motors Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra announces a major investment focused on the development of GM future technologies at the GM Orion Assembly Plant in Lake Orion, DETROIT (Reuters) – General Motors Co’s (N:) first electric pickup truck model will go on sale in theRead More →
A new Tesla model unveiling is around the corner, this time in the pickup category. A late-July tweet by Elon Musk, the company’s CEO, suggests it could happen as early as September. Musk claims the new Tesla TSLA, +2.30% electric pickup truck, dubbed “Model P,” will be “better” than theRead More →
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A Tesla car is seen in Santa Monica MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Tesla electric car caught fire after crashing into a tow truck on a Moscow motorway late on Saturday. Footage of the incident on state TV channel Rossiya 24 showed the car by the sideRead More →
© Reuters. Visitors stand at booth of VW’s truck unit Traton Group in Hanover FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Volkswagen (DE:) shares were up 2.7% in early trade on Tuesday after the multi-brand carmaking group said it would press ahead with a listing of its trucks unit Traton in what could beRead More →
