Trump Tweets for Action on Lordstown Plant

Politics is what this is leading up to the 2020 election. 

Now the focus on auto's is the fact that GM has TOO MUCH capacity. As such what Mary is doing is correct to reduce costs as any smart business person would do.

I honestly can see this plant being sold to one of the EV auto companies that are starting up their production. Someone somewhere is going to get hit hard as there is no limitless sales of auto's. Some body is going to lose out on auto sales.

We are in interesting times and the change over will be an interesting debate.

My one thought, who says it has to be an Auto Company that buys the plant for auto production?

Why could it not be LG who says buys the plant to build EV battery packs that are resold back to GM?

Is the plant Big? YES, Hell YES! Is auto's the only thing you could produce there? NO

I could see component creation there or robotic assembly line building, so many things in such a large space.

Interesting times we live in friends! Interesting Times! ?

8 minutes ago, dfelt said:

Is the plant Big? YES, Hell YES! Is auto's the only thing you could produce there? NO

I could see component creation there or robotic assembly line building, so many things in such a large space.

The plant was too big even for the Cruze. I've been taken on a tour of the plant years ago during the building if the first generation Cruze.  There were large empty sections of the plant even back then.  They could have easily used the plant for another vehicle line, perhaps another delta vehicle like Envision, Equinox, or Terrain... but they opted not to. 

GM has way too much capacity for sure.  

And maybe if there wasn't a tariff battle going on, GM could use that capacity here to produce cars to ship to China, rather than vice versa.  But I feel like regardless it would have been easier/cheaper to just build them in China.  

Lordstown needs sold to another manufacturing or warehousing company, hopefully they find a buyer that can bring some jobs.  Maybe they could use it to produce windmills so we don't have to buy oil off the Middle East, but Trump probably never thought of that one.

4 hours ago, smk4565 said:

...GM could use that capacity here to produce cars to ship to China...

That's not GM's decision to make tho.

51 minutes ago, balthazar said:

That's not GM's decision to make tho.

Yeah.  China is a truly protectionist country.  They already have a 25% tariff on all imported vehicles.  While I would rather not see the plant close down, GM needs a product that sells like hotcakes that will keep Lordstown open.  Ideally, Buick would make the Encore and the Envision (as well as the Trax and Equinox/Terrain) in Lordstown rather than SK/China.

For the sake of not being banned, I’ll keep my mouth shut.

That said, the plant will not go to waste.......