"The future is now, and the realization of electrifying RVs and the outdoor community is within our grasp and will only grow from here," Lemonis said in a statement on the news release announcing the partnership.11 hot electric-vehicle startups that will revolutionize the car industry, according to VCs
Eventually, Lordstown Motors and Camping World will also launch what Lemonis calls the "first Class E motorhome in America," or an eRV, according to the news release. According to Lemonis, the eRV will be affordable, especially to millennials, which Lemonis called the future of the RV industry during the conference.
In terms of a timeline, Lemonis and Burns hope to have a prototype of an electrified road travel vehicle by summer 2021, the first electrified travel trailer and fifth wheel sometime in 2021, and an electrified model by 2022. Besides road travel, the partnership was also created to set up a "national electric vehicle service and collision network" for Lordstown Motor's vehicles, which include theHow the designer of Lucid Motors' $80,000 Tesla rival transformed a 2015 sketch into the EV of the future