[8] In February 2019, Steve Burns, co-founder of AMP Electric Vehicles and CEO of Workhorse resigned from the company.

The report also stated that Workhorse was being sued by some shareholders in the company, which accuses them orchestrating its USPS as part of an insider trading scheme.

[16] By the end of 2022 all the legacy issues had been resolved, such as the securities class action lawsuit,[17] the SEC investigation,[18] and got Workhorse debt free.

[24] Later that day, Workhorse Group issued a press release detailing a licensing agreement with Lordstown Motors for their W-15 pickup truck.

[31] A class 4 step van battery electric commercial vehicle, with 750 cubic feet of storage space intended for last mile delivery.

North Carolina's Duke Energy stated that it would buy 500 of the vehicles, and the city of Orlando also reported interested.

Lordstown Motors paid a licensing fee to Workhorse, and the truck will be produced in the future without the gasoline range extender.

[41] Workhorse was one of the finalists for the 10-year United States Postal Service contract for the Next Generation Delivery Vehicle (NGDV) to replace 165,000[42] aging and outdated Grumman LLVs that had been used by USPS since 1987.

[13][47][48][49] The prototype NGDV candidate chassis was modified and reused for both the W-15 pickup and the N-GEN delivery van for commercial fleets.

In September 2021 Workhorse suspended all deliveries of the vehicle and recalled 41 vans that were already delivered to customers with the company stating that it needed to provide "additional testing and modifications" to comply with US safety standards.

[57] In December 2018, Workhorse announced that they would debut its SureFly, an electric vertical take off and landing octocopter at the 2019 North American International Auto Show.

[60] Unmanned medical delivery capabilities of the HorseFly was also developed in partnership with San Diego–based Unmanned Systems Operations Group Inc.[61] Workhorse modified their HorseFly design to make a lighter but more rugged drone intended for making deliveries in hazardous environments like a conflict zone, or inaccessible areas like in a natural disaster.