DETROIT, Mich. — General Motors plans to sell its shuttered factory in Lordstown, Ohio, to a company that builds electric trucks.
President Donald Trump announced the deal with a company named Workhorse on Twitter Wednesday morning.
He also wrote that GM plans to spend $700 million at three locations in Ohio and create 450 additional jobs.
He wrote that the sale is subject to an agreement with the United Auto Workers union and that he got the news in a conversation with GM CEO Mary Barra.
Workhorse has been involved in developing both electric trucks and drones.
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