ELKHART, Ind.— In the empty factories and laid-off workers in this struggling section of the Rust Belt, entrepreneur Wil Cashen sees "unimaginable potential.”
Seeking to capitalize on the trend toward more-energy-efficient vehicles, Cashen has a plan to retrofit pickup trucks with electric motors at several of Elkhart County’s large, dormant manufacturing facilities and sell them to utility companies.
A native of neighboring St. Joseph County, Cashen would like to see this hard-hit area — which touts itself as “the RV capital of the World” — become the country’s capital for electric vehicles.
"There's a real opportunity," Cashen said while walking through his field of dreams — a quarter-mile stretch of dormant industrial buildings around the monster Monaco motorhome factory in Wakarusa that closed last fall.
Opportunity, yes, but no guarantees.
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- jennyschu
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Oh so now we all hippie treehuggers?!?
Welcome to the Pleasure Dom TERRA!
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don't monsanto tofu or cloned anything,only do wild everything.-
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- ras_menelik
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ALL I see is a better and a better paying future in all
Can't see why Hydro-carbon-sheiks & Xxxasistanians drill hogs only see DOOM!
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- ras_menelik
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I live in the area stated above. I heard about it on the radio. It sounds great, being unemployed I would just love to have a job. I just hope it does not turn into a slave job with a check added like the RV jobs are like here.
