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Electric truck maker lauded by Trump as saving Ohio town files for bankruptcy

Lordstown Motors associates work on a pre-production all electric pickup truck
The automaker’s main product is the Endurance electric pickup truck. Photograph: Rebecca Cook/Reuters

Lordstown Motors, the US electric truck manufacturer once lauded by former president Donald Trump as the savior of a depressed Ohio town, filed for bankruptcy protection on Tuesday.

The automaker, named after the town where it is based, filed for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware and put itself up for sale after failing to resolve a dispute over a promised investment from Taiwan’s Foxconn. It simultaneously took legal action against Foxconn.

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