Lordstown Motors Corp. CEO Steve Burns and Camping World CEO Marcus Lemonis announced a joint venture between the two companies on Tuesday at Lordstown’s 6.2 million-square-foot headquarters in Lordstown, Ohio.
First, Camping World will provide the service operations for the Lordstown Motors all-electric pickup truck – the Endurance – which will start production in September.
Camping World will do this through its 170 locations through the United States.
“We really started looking at what it would take to roll out service of our own, versus (if we )could leverage somebody that’s really good at this already, already has a national footprint and has been doing this a long time. And that’s when we found Camping World,” Burns said.
Camping World technicians will undergo intensive training and Lemonis said he hopes to be ready to service Endurances by next summer.
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Lordstown Motors will provide batteries for tow-behind camping trailers, making them more electrified.
The two companies are working to make an electric RV. For that, Lordstown Motors plans to not only build the batteries, but also assemble the entire vehicle at its Lordstown plant.
