 Everybody, this is MXUX. This is just a video going over the political ramifications of the USPS contract and how it affects workhorse in Lordstown. Hope you like it. Hi, this is MXUX. A comment suggested this. And in talking about Lordstown, we have Workhorse, which is a 10% shareholder in Lordstown Motors. Steve Burns was the CEO of Workhorse. He left to start Lordstown Motors. Endurance was the Workhorse W15, I believe, before Workhorse gave the rights over to Lordstown Motors for a 10% stake in it. So the two companies are closely related. As I mentioned in my last video, it was widely felt that Workhorse would get at least a portion of the new postal vehicle contract with the United States government, and that that would likely be built production-wise at Lordstown. And I think this had a lot to do with Lordstown doing the machining for the high-top van. And in any case, the postal vehicle, for example, could have been produced on the line, based on the Lordstown Motors van, at the same time as the endurance was being produced on the line, on the same line at the same time. Anyway, I think that's what everybody thought the game plan was. Kathy Wood starts with that was what the game plan was. And Workhorse didn't get the contract. So anyway, a comment suggested that we look into the lawsuit. And I'm going to try to just go over some highlights on this. I thought it was pretty interesting. So this is Workhorse versus the United States. This is about the post-award bid-protest challenge of the next-generation delivery vehicles to the postal service that was awarded to Oshkosh Defense. And they say that this procurement were arbitrary, capricious, and without rational basis. Workhorse got run over by Oshkosh Defense, who really builds, like, armored personnel carriers and things of that nature. Not really big on delivery vehicles. Don't do any electric vehicles, anyway. And it states here, well, they got the contract, Workhorse didn't. And then Workhorse is, say, stating here that had they done it fairly, Workhorse would have been awarded the contract. I think we could have counted on Workhorse to have been awarded at least some of the contract, okay? I think everybody was expecting them to split it up between ICE vehicles and electric vehicles, for example. Anyway, let's just go through this. The USPS invited Workhorse to bid. They spent six years and six million dollars developing a next-generation political vehicle to meet the USPS specs. Now, they did all this, and then they went into testing. And what happened was they blamed Workhorse's prototype vehicle for a safety incident that was clearly the result of the USPS driver. So they rejected Workhorse's proposal because of the safety incident. And we'll go over that in a minute. They lettered in spirit of the NGV program, but experienced successfully designing and building last mile delivery vehicles. They all electric vehicle from the ground up they designed for the USPS. So anyway, the point is they didn't get it, and they designed a specific vehicle just for them and so on. So the USPS announced they selected Oshkosh for the $3.1 billion contract. Now, first, the selected Oshkosh vehicle uses an internal combustion engine with 10% of the production vehicles potentially being electric. So this is against, we're going to go and see in a minute, this is against Biden's executive order to make an electric fleet. And, you know, the trends, I mean, these ice trucks are going to be totally obsolete in, you know, five years. They aren't going to be able to give them away, and they're going to be inefficient. So anyway, yeah, everyone's moving to zero emission fleets. Anyway, quickly as possible, now well-established electric vehicles are significantly lower cost of ownership and vast savings on fuel and maintenance, dramatically outweigh the additional costs. So anyway, they committed to 165,000 ice vehicles for $3 billion that are going to be obsolete in five years, and 10% might be potentially being electric. Over workhorse, which had a 100% electric vehicle that was designed specifically for the USPS. Now, here's a very, very good. This is really cool. Oshkosh submitted drawings, and then they showed a vehicle completely unlike the Ford transit-based prototypes that were put through the UPS's template. So the point is, they submitted drawings to one vehicle, they tested another vehicle, and then they decided the contract on another vehicle, which had skipped the prototype phase altogether. Okay, so they didn't even prototype this thing, okay? The vehicle that's going to be built. Oshkosh has never previously produced a last-mile delivery vehicle, much less an electric one. So, you know, there's Ford again. What the heck? So they got ice vehicles from a contractor that never made a last-mile delivery with a truck design that was never prototyped, never tested, and it was awarded a billion-dollar contract for, you know, hundreds of thousands of vehicles. The USPS would pay Oshkosh 482 million simply to finish the development of a concept, okay, before a single truck is delivered. There you go. Always a 500 million with these car companies. So not only are they giving them the contract without a prototype, they're paying them to develop a concept and a prototype. When Workhorse submitted a prototype that was working, anyway, you can go through this yourself, pause the video and reread all this. It's totally ridiculous. They steamrolled the Oshkosh into this thing without even testing the vehicle, okay? Emblematic of unfair treatment of Workhorse of the USPS, unfair treatment is its repeated citation of alleged roll-away incident. Okay, this is why they said they would never have selected Workhorse. Okay, what happened was, while they were testing the prototype, which Oshkosh never, you know, the Oshkosh contract is based on a prototype that was never submitted or tested by the Post Office. And they're paying them a 500 million dollars to develop it. Workhorse's truck was there and they tested it and they were going through the prototype testing and so on and so forth. And what happened was, you can read this here, a driver was testing the vehicle and he stopped the vehicle. He left it in drive and got out to deliver a package and the truck took off and rolled into a ditch. And they said, hey, the guy left the thing in park. Okay, he didn't apply the parking blaze. He jumped out of the vehicle and rolled down a slope into a ditch. So they're saying that this was operator error. It wasn't to cause the design of the truck that caused this. It was because it was parked on a hill. It was left on a hill in drive and the driver got out and it rolled down the hill, which makes perfect sense. And they said, this is why I could not have awarded a contract. By the way, if you wanted to set up this test to fail, I mean, this should be the perfect way to do it. I mean, I think any car would do this. Or maybe I'm wrong, but I'm sure that this is a very common thing. I mean, especially when you're operating a delivery vehicle, but those guys, I see them pull that break up hard every time they stop. So anyway, this is why they said they wouldn't do it. So the guy left it in drive, got out of the truck and rolled down a hill into a ditch and they blamed that on workforce. Could you make, well, maybe you can make a case that there should be a failsafe in there? I don't know. I think this is ridiculous. I think they have some grounds here, you know, not in park. Anyway, so because of this, they gave it to a company that doesn't have a prototype and they paid them to develop the prototype. And the prototype is going to be an ice truck. That's going to be, oh, you get to, you get to be. So we're just going to go through this. There's a lot of stuff here. Workhorse, American manufacturer creates all delivery. This is all it does is all electric delivery trucks and drones, such things, optimizes the way these. In fact, Workhorse is the only company with a fully electric last mile delivery truck on the road in the United States. And it is the only company in the world that has an electric delivery truck with integrated aerial drone system, which could have also been used by the post office very well, by the way. You know, these guys, they have their way past the prototype. They got the C100 and the C6600, the C1000, whatever the two truck designations are, which are really good trucks. I have video on this and another video of mine, driver's love them. There's, you know, three electric last mile delivery trucks, unlike the Amazon, you know, indentured servant van. They're trying to come out with Rivian, which is going nowhere fast. And it looks like it's snapped together anyway. These are real commercial trucks and they do a great job. Workhorse does. They should have got a portion of this at least. They should have got the whole thing really because this should be an electric fleet anyway. And we're just going to go down here. The USPS have a fleet of over 200,000 vehicles and 163 are at the end of their life. So we'll just go down here. Workhorse has been a fully electric delivery vehicle at the prototype phase, which is designed and constructed entirely from scratch to meter exceed the USPS requirements. In stark contrast, Oscar submitted a Ford Transit based Ford again vehicle and already electric vehicle with a Ford Transit chassis and customized body. Again, we're going to get into Ford in a second here. So we're just going to go through this and this is a long you guys can download this and read the whole thing if you want. You know how lawsuits are. It's kind of boring. I think there's one more section that it's of interest to us here. Let me see if I can find it. Anyway, again, ah, it came. It became apparent that for the production phase, Oscar's proposed an entirely different vehicle than the Ford Transit based vehicle it had submitted. And that the agency had tested at great length and expense for the prototype phase. They didn't even buy the vehicle they tested. Okay. They didn't even now that they bought a vehicle that wasn't tested that was never prototype. They're paying them the prototype. So they didn't take any bids on this thing. They gave the whole thing away to a company that's never built an electric vehicle before. It's never built a last mile vehicle delivery vehicle before. That doesn't have a prototype that was tested by the post office that hasn't even designed a prototype yet. Now, this new proposed design, however, remains a conventional internal combustion engine vehicle. Again, going to be totally obsolete in five years. Okay. Which Oscar's claims can be retrofitted to be electric. Now, here's the rub I have down here Ford. They have stated publicly that they have already contracted with Ford to supply the batteries in the motors to convert 10% of this fleet to electric, this production to electric. Although Ford can't even meet their own demand and has no capability to do this. For a truck that doesn't even exist yet, that they're going to pay the prototype, that they awarded a billion dollar value of the contract, 3.1 billion dollars. Two. Okay. Again, Ford. Oshkosh. You know, no capability for it to supply batteries or electric motors. And Oshkosh never built a last mile delivery vehicle. Man, oh man. Oshkosh acknowledged in November 2020 filing with the SEC that while sales of electric powered vehicles are increasingly important. That's an understatement. Oshkosh may not have the expertise or resources to successfully address these pressures on a cost effective basis or at all. And I'm going to add this goes likewise to Ford. Okay. Ford isn't going to be able to supply any meaningful input to this production probably for another five years. In my estimation. So anyway, this award came shortly after Biden's executive order. Directing procurement of clean and zero emission vehicles for the federal, state, local and tribal government fleets, including vehicles in the United States Postal Office. So what is going on here? I would love to know. This doesn't make any sense at all. Why isn't somebody investigating this? Why isn't somebody getting to the bottom of this? I mean, this this has been investigated a postmaster, loose to joy congressional 10% of the Oshkosh fleet would be electric unless could not be electric. Unless the USPS receives an additional three to four billion dollar only 10% of the new fleet could be electric unless they get another $4 billion. Okay. So for the for the how many billions they got? What was the amount? Whatever, you know, they get 10% maybe. Okay, if they want more than that's going to cost them three or four billion would it be? Okay, Sherrod Brown, Senator Sherrod Brown, Tim Ryan. And I could put wrote a letter to President Biden. Where's Biden on this? What what what the heck? Ordered an initial contract to provide up to 160 by bill of the next day without any commitment to making these electric vehicles or or either hybrid or 100% electric. Again, you can have 165,000 vehicles that are going to be total white elephants in five years. You're not going to be able to give them away. The cost savings to the taxpayers gone. The vehicle to grid battery that this would have formed to help take the stress off our, which I covered in another video, which would help take the stress off our ve our electric grid for the electric vehicles that it would be. We'll be coming online. Imagine this 165,000 electric vehicles with vehicle to grid, which could act as storage fee for the grid when there was overproduction of energy and could supply from those 165,000 vehicles energy back into the grid with the demand was included charging the vehicles. This is such a missed opportunity. And over the next decade, yeah, without any commitment to making these either hybrid or electric and request the contract be delayed. That there was not inappropriate to determine if there was not inappropriate political influence in the process. All right. So, again, I just want to say I don't know what's going on here again. This is tangentially related to the political football that Lord Stein motors has become because again, Trump was heavily influenced in the startup of Lord Stein motors and they are out to get Trump. It seems to me, I don't know how Biden could have been unaware of this. Okay. And Biden was trying to, I don't believe he can take the joy out of the postmaster general because it's some type of appointment rule. But the joy was a Trump appointee. But I'd like to add to this as well, inappropriate political influence. Well, you know, Ford motor again is all over this. And I want to tell you something else. There was massive stock options and massive shorting of workhorse before this came out. And there was massive buying of Oshkosh before this came out. So this was a total inside baseball deal again. And this is corruption and why isn't the Department of Justice, you know, they're they're they're investigating Steve Burns and Manhattan District Attorney. Why doesn't the Manhattan District Attorney look into this? I don't understand what the what the rationale is of all the prosecution of Steve Burns is when this is going on. Okay. Anyway, that's all I have to say for this. I hope you like that bit of a rant. You can get this far. I'm going to put a link there. You have to look this up. It's hard to find it's been redacted. It's been sealed. I don't know exactly how I got this. You can see some of its blacked out. Anyway, you can play this back slowly and you can pause it and you can read these sections for yourself. This whole thing is ridiculous. Okay, everybody, I hope you like that. That was a very, you know, how this could have been awarded and how it's not being investigated by the Department of Justice and how the New York District Attorney isn't investigating this. And, you know, the question is, again, I don't know. The joy was a Trump appointee. I don't know what's going on here. Does this, of course, this influences Lordstown. I mean, this has affected the potential success of Lordstown greatly and obviously the potential success of war course. So I think this should be investigated. I don't know. This whole thing is starting to smell like a rotten kettle of fish to me. All right, guys, thanks for watching. I hope you liked it.