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Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, greetings and welcome to Workforce Group's second quarter 2021 investor conference call. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Workforce Group's Vice President of Finance, Tony Furey.
Tony Furey
Sir, you may begin. Thank you, Operator, and good morning, everyone. We appreciate you taking the time to join us for our call. Before the market opened, we issued a press release with our results for the second quarter ended June 30th, 2021, a copy of which is in the Investor Relations section of our website. We also released our Form 10-Q this morning. I'm going to turn the call over to our CEO, Rick Dauk, in a few moments. And Rick will give you an update on our business. After that, our CEO, Steve Schrader, will walk us through the financial results for the quarter. But before we begin, I want to call to your attention our Safe Harbor provision for forward-looking statements that is posted on our website and is part of our quarterly update. The Safe Harbor provision identifies risk factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from the content of our forward-looking statements. Our 2020 Form 10-K and other periodic filings on file with the SEC provide further detail about the risk factors related to our business. And with that, We'd like to turn the call over to our CEO, Rick Douck. Rick?
Rick Dauk
Thanks, Tony, and thank you to all who are joining us for today's call. Let me start off by thanking our board of directors for giving me the opportunity to lead the Workhorse team as we take the next step in our journey from tech startup to a real-world operating company. I'd also like to thank my predecessor, Dwayne Hughes, for his leadership of the company over the past two-plus years and his outstanding support of me during our transition process. As most of you know, while I'm new to Workhorse, I am not new to the automotive industry, EV technology, or the last mile commercial vehicle delivery space. My first day here at Workhorse was August 2nd, and as you can see on slide one, it's been a very busy week. In the past seven days, we have conducted board meetings, held three town hall events with our workforce, toured our Union City factory, taken test drives in two of our delivery vehicles that are just like the one you can see on slide two, I've witnessed drone package delivery test flights. I've interviewed the entire executive leadership team, held introductory calls with our key customers, and laid out a plan for me to get fully oriented to the company by the fourth quarter of this year. I've also secured housing and moved to downtown Cincinnati. What I have seen, heard, and experienced in the last week confirms exactly why I decided to get off the bench and join the Workhorse team. With that said, please turn your attention to slide three. As you can see, we are the clear technology leaders in the class three to five last mile delivery segment, both for electrified vehicles and drones. Our backlog is real and stands today at nearly 8,000 vehicle orders that are confirmed with standard vehicle purchase agreements, which include typical terms and conditions. Slides four and five show our Metron data. We have 381 vehicles on the road and in the hands of our customers operating in 21 states with over 8 million miles of real-world driving experience. Metron can provide a multitude of operating data both to us and our customers that allows us to gain data and provide users with increased vehicle efficiency. And most importantly, we have a capable team of associates from the C-suite to the plant floor who are dedicated and focused on becoming the unquestioned market leader in the last mile delivery truck and aerospace markets. That being said, we need to overcome some growing pains as we make the transition from a tech startup to a full-blown operating company. We have a lot of work to do around vehicle designs, bill of material costs, and efficient lean manufacturing operations. areas where I've spent most of my career over the past three decades. I'm excited to be here and look forward to digging in and learning more about our company. Let me now provide a few quick updates on our business units. Let me turn to our truck business first, where we have made significant improvements in our production process. Year to date, we have produced over 133 vehicles, both for our own use as a test fleet and for select customers. Fourteen of those trucks were delivered in the second quarter, and we anticipate the remainder to be leased or sold to niche markets within the next 12 months. In building these vehicles, we have learned valuable lessons about what we can do to make our C1000 series vehicles easier to produce and even better value for our customers. Our initial production run has confirmed the excitement in the market for our C1000 product, which we have shown to existing customers and dealers and are beginning to deliver in limited quantities. What is clear from initial customer feedback is that we need to further increase the payload capacity of our vehicles. Although there are niche market opportunities for the lower payload vehicle, those opportunities are limited. The majority of our customers need a higher payload vehicle, which serves a much larger market segment. Our engineering teams are already hard at work on the revised designs of the C1000. Meanwhile, we can continue with a limited level of production for customers, where our current payload is adequate for those who want to road test one of the few, if not only, electrically powered commercial vehicles in our market that are available to them now. As I said earlier, Workforce is making the transition from an advanced technology startup to a leading manufacturer of last mile delivery vehicles, and that is not always an easy journey. I've been through many manufacturing transitions in the past, and I know what it takes to be successful. We recognize that there is a lot of work still to be done and likely difficult decisions ahead to position our company for long-term success. I look forward to working with our team, our valued customers, and industry partners as we take Workhorse into the next phase of vehicle development and production planning. We will have a revised business and operating plan for our commercial vehicle business by the next earnings call. Let me provide a quick sales and marketing update. We have nearly 8,000 confirmed orders with customers, most of whom I spoke with last week. Thankfully, they are being quite patient with us as we work through our internal design and production challenges. We continue to receive significant customer and market interest due to the recent purpose-built tour and the personal efforts of the entire Pritchard family group enterprise in making that cross-country campaign such a success. Taking full advantage of the increased interest generated, we will be launching a rebranding campaign this quarter, which will include a new website, additional show trucks that will make their way across numerous high visibility events throughout 2021, as well as unveiling our customer experience and training center right next to our manufacturing facility in Union City, Indiana. Turning to slide six, our aerospace team has had a lot to do this quarter. And I have a lot of work ahead of me to better understand both the technical and commercial potential of our industry-leading drone delivery technologies. Our goal is to develop a system that safely and reliably carries a meaningful payload, a significant distance, and then certify that system under FAA's regulations. We are making progress down that design path. Our team is routinely in the field conducting test flights to validate our designs, and those tests are going quite well. This quarter, our aircraft demonstrated the endurance we need and the ability to fly multiple sorties in quick succession. Safe, reliable flying, adequate endurance on a flight, and the ability to fly many times in a duty day are the key elements of any system that supports commercial package delivery service. In the second quarter, we flew our system more than 20 missions in a duty day, validating our design and our ability to hit the op tempos the market will demand. Our work with the FAA is moving forward. The FAA has assigned us a project manager and a team of subject matter experts to work with on the certification process. There is new FAA guidance which may stretch certification for some systems in the pipeline, including ours. From our point of view, the FAA is working hard to strike a healthy balance between public safety and the fielding of new technologies as quickly as possible. With that, I'll turn the call over to our CFO, Steve Schrader, to discuss our second quarter financial results. Steve?
Tony
Thanks, Rick, and welcome aboard. Sales for the second quarter of 2021 were recorded at 1.2 million compared with 92,000 in the second quarter of 2020. The increase in sales was primarily related to an increase in trucks delivered. There was a total of 14 trucks delivered in this quarter compared to one in the same period last year. Cost of goods sold increased to 14.8 million in the second quarter of 2021 compared to 1.5 million in the second quarter of 2020. The increase in cost of goods sold was primarily related to an increase in the volume of trucks shipped, a write-down of work-in-progress and finished goods inventory to market value, and an increase in employee consulting, manufacturing overhead, and freight costs. Selling general administrative expenses increased to $7 million from $3.9 million in the same period last year. The increase was attributable to an increase in employee consulting, legal, and marketing expenses. Research and development expenses increased to $2.1 million from $1.6 million in the same period last year. The increase in R&D expenses was due to employee and contract labor issues. Other loss increased to $11.7 million from no loss in the second quarter of 2020. The other loss was primarily related to the reduction in the value of the fair market value of the investment in Ride, the SPAC owner of Lordstown Motor Corporation. This loss is non-cash and is determined by the stock price override as of June 30th, 2021, which is $11.06 versus a price of $11.77 as of March 31st, 2021. There is no change in value during the same period in 2020. Interest expense decreased to $10.5 million in the second quarter compared to $124.3 million from the same period last year. The decrease in interest expense was primarily related to the non-cash market-to-market adjustments related to the convertible debt instruments and warrants in effect during these periods. Net loss in Q2 of 2021 was $43.6 million compared with a net loss of $131.3 million in the second quarter of 2020. Excluding the non-cash adjustments, operating loss for this quarter was $22.7 million compared to $7 million in the same period last year. As of June 30th, we had approximately $156.6 million in cash on our balance sheet, However, we have since sold 72% of our ride ownership shares and are expecting net proceeds of nearly $79 million. That concludes my financial overview. I'll now turn the call back over to conclude the call. Rick.
Rick Dauk
Thanks, Steve. I'm excited to be here at Workhorse. We are the technology leaders and have a great opportunity to build a profitable company over the next 24 to 36 months. Being a technology pioneer is not an easy path. We readily admit that we have numerous challenges to overcome, but I am confident that we have the team, the product technology, and we'll soon have an operating plan and commercial plan that we can execute to be successful. Let's go to work. So operator, please provide the appropriate instructions.
Operator
Thank you. We'll now be conducting a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star two if you would like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star key. In the interest of time, we ask that participants limit themselves to one question and one follow-up. One moment, please, while we poll for questions. Thank you. Our first question comes from Colin Rush with Oppenheimer. Please proceed with your question.
Colin Rush
Thanks so much, guys. Can you give us a better sense of what you're going to be working on with this redesign and what the cycle time is going to be on completing those designs and getting into production? We'd really love to understand any technical elements that you guys are working on.
Rick Dauk
Yeah, Collins, I've only been here a week, but I've done a lot of diligence before I got here. And obviously, I've spent time with the team, both the factory in Union City and with the engineering team. We have set up the week of August 16th, we're going to go through full vehicle design reviews down to the bill of materials with both our engineering team and our purchasing team. It seems to me at a high level right now, we have zero issues with our electronic and electric powertrain systems. Our vehicles in the field and the vehicles we've built are meeting the 100-mile range that's required for about 96% of the vehicles in the commercial vehicle space. We have the ability to flex up to 150 miles if we add two more battery packs on there. Majority of our issues around vehicle dynamics, around chassis systems, those kind of things, payload. I won't go on those details today. I'd ask for your patience. Give me 90 days, and we'll come back with a detailed plan. The good news, at least from an outsider looking in and now a week of being an insider, is those vehicle dynamic issues are all solvable. We've got to get the right engineers working on the right issues and get the right suppliers there to help us. And I would say this team has done a great job putting together those designs. We need to do a better job of involving our supplier partners who are the experts in some of the subsystems. And if we do that correctly, I think we can be out to market with a damn good vehicle soon.
Colin Rush
That's super helpful. And then just as you roll these trucks out into the field and monitor them, in terms of the learning cycles, what are you seeing in the early days in terms of your ability to integrate those learnings quickly into the operating system and how the vehicles actually perform out in the field?
Rick Dauk
Yeah, one of the things I was excited about as part of my diligence and now that I've been here is this Metron system we have can track real-time where our vehicles are operating anywhere in the country. We get an update every 10 seconds on about 500 different data points. I haven't spent time digging through that. That's one of the things I want to do in the next 30 days with the engineering team and the sales team and figure out, okay, what is the data telling us and how do we take that data and bring it back to the design team and get a better vehicle out there?
Colin Rush
Okay, thanks so much, guys.
Rick Dauk
Thanks, Kyle.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Greg Lewis with BTIG. Please proceed with your question.
Greg Lewis
Yes, thank you, and good morning, everybody. Rick, you know, realizing that this announcement on the redesign of the payload just, I guess, happened, I guess I'm curious, was this something that was being discussed before you came on board? And as we think about that, I mean, I imagine it was, you know, clearly customer-driven. Is that leading to any shifts into, you know, as we think about the existing backlog primarily being for the C650 and the C1000 as is, does that kind of morph into maybe we call it a C10,000 plus? Great question. Great question.
Rick Dauk
Some of these issues I found out about as part of my diligence, and my diligence basically was meeting with some of the board members. I actually sat down with Dwayne for a two- or three-hour meeting before I took the job. So these things were the issues that our team knew about long before I got here. Here's what I'd say. I've got to dig through all the different type of vehicles we have right now, whether it's the 650, the M series, or the 1000 series. We're going to take a look at what we have in store here from a raw material standpoint. what we can build efficiently up at Union City, and then talk to our customers of where if we build vehicles, they can take them and deploy them in the field. I had a tremendous call on Saturday with one of our largest customers. He applauded us in slowing down our production. He'd much preferred us to get the vehicle right. That being said, he'd be happy to take some of these lower payload vehicles and get them out in the field for certain applications, whether it's maintenance tools or bread delivery or donuts, whatever it's going to be, And get the vehicles out there so customers get a feel for what it's like to drive an EV. In the last three years, between Delphi and here, I always go to these town homies. I ask the people in the crowd, how many of you have an electric vehicle? Less than 5% of the people have it. It's even less out in the commercial vehicle space. But once people get an electric vehicle and they feel the power of it and how quiet it is, they like it. On Wednesday last week at Union City, I got to go for about a 15-, 20-mile test drive in one of our vehicles, one of the C1000s, and I was damn impressed, right? I was strapped in with the seatbelt. We're going through cornfields and soybean fields and stuff like that, and I was really impressed how the vehicle handled, how it took over some of the bumps, the railroad tracks, et cetera. So we've got to get some of those vehicles in the hands of customers, and when they see it and they can bring that vehicle back to station and charge it overnight, it's going to be a good solution. It's going to revolutionize the delivery markets. Okay, great.
Greg Lewis
Thank you for that. And then, Steve, just, you know, pivoting over to you, you know, realizing that it sounds like we probably don't have much color until next week when you go through the vehicle redesign. But do you kind of have any color kind of how we should be thinking about, you know, the cash run rate, you know, on a quarterly basis? You know, I guess let's just think about the next maybe Q3. Okay.
Tony
Greg, sure. So right now I think you saw we had $156 million cash on the balance sheet of June 30th. We've monetized 72% of the ride ownership, and that gives us almost another $80 million of cash and some more to come on that. So I think we're pretty good from a cash standpoint. I would look at it as maybe $10 million a month, $30 million a quarter is kind of the cash burn, so I think we've got a pretty good runway in front of us.
Greg Lewis
Okay, great. Thank you for the time, everybody.
Tony
Thanks, Greg.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Jeff Osborne with Cowan & Company. Please proceed with your question.
Jeff Osborne
Good morning, everybody. A couple questions on my end. One, Rick, I was curious on your views on automation and throughput, recognizing that you're experiencing, you're going through this redesign process, but just in general, the level of automation in Union City, is that something that you would want to step up as part of the redesign effort or not necessarily?
Rick Dauk
Too early to tell, Jeff, I'd say. My experience at a previous company where I was on the board, automation wasn't a big issue for us. Typically, I like to use automation where there's two or three areas. One, there's a safety issue involved, especially with heavy parts where there's redundancy. But the build rates on these vehicles aren't, you know, 100 an hour, 60 an hour like you're in the typical automotive side of the house, right? But we'll look at opportunities as we look for that. And I'd say what we're doing right now, we're only building about two or three a day, up to five a day. I think we know our target down in the future will be much higher than that, and we probably have some time to lay out the factory. I was impressed by the factory. Not its outward appearance. It needs a little bit of spruced up. We'll take care of that. But inside, we have a lot of capacity in terms of layouts for stations. We can have two assembly lines. We can probably have a two-assembly line process. Right now, it's a one-shift operation. As sales grows, we can always grow to two shifts. And so we'll bring some more details of that to you in the fourth quarter and probably update that every quarter going forward as the market develops.
Jeff Osborne
That's great. And my follow-up question is just around internal operations. sourcing or internal development, vertical integration around battery packs and other things. Is that something that you intend to do? And can you just touch on batteries in general, some of your competitors?
Rick Dauk
Yeah, too early to tell. I know we have a partnership with Cattle, I think, C-A-T-L, out of China. And we have Interdell, so we have two types of batteries. I've seen them on the floor where we charge them and keep them warm and that kind of stuff. We're going to go back and look at what I call make versus buy decisions. What can we do in-house most cost-effectively? What should stay out at suppliers? How we manage our inventory. As you guys know, if you know me, I'm a big believer in the Toyota production system. We've won multiple awards at my plants before, and we'll use that same system here at this company when it's applicable. Great. That's all I have. Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Craig Irwin with Roth Capital Partners. Please proceed with your question.
Craig Irwin
Good morning and thanks for taking my question. So Rick, I wanted to ask if you could frame out for us your experience in federal procurement and if you could maybe follow through on that with how your experience is relevant to maybe serving a customer like the post office and if there's anything philosophically that you might do different than the team did over the last couple years looking to serve that customer? And do you sort of, you know, endorse the strategy the way you see it at this point? You asked about the federal procurement experience? Is that what you said? Federal procurement, post office, and, you know, the move to litigate and work on a regulatory solution rather than the traditional channel.
Rick Dauk
Yeah, we're not going to make any comments today about the USPS lawsuit. Let me just make that comment. I have had limited experience. We did some work at ISA Accuride working with the Department of Defense on some advanced technology. There's a combination, too. You have to understand the right channel and the sourcing process and the specification process. Two, you've got to work through the different budget cycles of the federal government, which happens every year and all the dynamics that go around there between Democrats and Republicans. Republicans. So let me take a look at that a little bit with the team. At the end of the day, this administration has talked about upgrading our infrastructure. You can read that in the paper. There's a move towards electrification. You know, what I've seen both in Europe and Delphi and here in North America, there is a huge move driven by the government. You know, China, 25% of vehicles will be electrified. Every one of the major cities in Europe is driving towards electrification. So how are you going to service All the pubs in downtown London or Paris and those kind of places, if you can't bring combustion engines there, so there's going to be a market there for us. And here in North America, obviously, California and CARB lead, so we've got to make sure we understand all those policies first here in North America and make sure we're ready to go. So to answer the question, I've got a lot of work to do here on this company here. I've got to understand what happened on the USPS. I read everything. I talked to the board members about that, and we'll make some decisions here in the next quarter.
Craig Irwin
Great, thank you. So for my follow-up, it's really just a clarification. So the payload issues you're moving proactively to solve on your trucks, can you clarify for us, does this impact all of the vehicles in the lineup, the C450, the C800, and the C1000? Or is there a possibility for maybe a more aggressive move on the C450 side, given that the payload differences of last mile delivery versus you know, the people that need 1,000 cubic foot of capacity.
Rick Dauk
Yeah, Craig, let me dig into more of the details. Like I said, I'm in a week. Give me a little bit. I think primarily it's around the C-1000. It's something we can work on. I'm not going to go into too many details right now. How's that? But I will give you more details by the time we come out in November with our revised plan.
Tony
Thank you.
Rick Dauk
Thanks for your questions.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Chris Souther with BeRise. Hey, thanks for taking my question here.
Chris Souther
Maybe just I wanted to kind of clarify, is the design changes, is that something you expect to have completed by the time you provide the updated timeline here and the roadmap on the next call here?
Rick Dauk
Yeah, I'll know a lot more, basically, Chris, after I do the design reviews of the team on the 16th, 17th, and 18th, and I'm sure that'll lead to a whole bunch more questions. I can't commit to have all the design plans specifically buttoned down by the November, but we'll have a general direction of what we want to do, and that'll drive in terms of Design, finalization, metal drive, just sourcing with customers when they have their parts fully validated and sourced. And then we've got to time that, too, when we want to really launch production the big way in 2022. So we'll give you the best we can by November, but I won't commit to have it 100% done then.
Chris Souther
Okay, so that's helpful. And then of the 8,000 purchase orders, how many do you think are good with the current specs and would move forward in the interim production process? versus, you know, kind of waiting. It sounded like one of the big customers was, you know, fine waiting for the most part and taking kind of small volumes. Just kind of curious, you know, the mix of customers that have already ordered that are okay with the current specs here.
Rick Dauk
Yeah, I don't know the details of the 8,000, you know. The good news for this is one of those customers I talked to last week was ready to drop another 1,500 to 2,000 unit order, and I said, hold off for now, right? Let's get the designs right. Let's get our production right, and then we'll come back and tell you when we're ready to actually make those orders, okay? So don't know yet right now.
Chris Souther
Okay. Is there a component we're talking about there?
Rick Dauk
Say that again?
Chris Souther
The inventory write-down during the quarter?
Tony
Oh, yeah. So this is Steve, Chris. So the inventory write-down of the quarter is that we had many trucks that were either in work in progress or finished goods. And the accounting standards require you to write that down to basically cost or market. So obviously, and I mentioned this in the past, that during this year, we're going to have gross margins that are going to be significantly negative. And so basically, that's what it was, is you're writing it down from the cost to actually the market. And so, in essence, we're pulling kind of the gross margins negative up to the second quarter here versus kind of when they're sold. Does that make sense? Timing more than anything else.
Chris Souther
Understood. Thanks, guys.
Rick Dauk
Thanks, Chris.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Mike Schliske with D.A. Davidson. Please proceed with your question. Yeah, hey, good morning, guys. I'm just a little bit confused. So I'm just a little bit confused here, guys. So you've got 8,000 orders here. So 8,000 folks, or in the case of Pritchard or Pride Group, 8,000 orders worth of people have seen the truck. They've seen the spec sheet that you gave them before. They've test-driven the truck, and they said, yes, I want to drive that. Or in the case of Pritchard and Pride, I could definitely sell that as you put it to me. And now you're saying that that's not the case. but they signed binding orders to take these vehicles. And I'm a little bit confused as to how, as to kind of what has changed since they actually signed their binding orders that they're not going to get their orders and actually going to get an entirely different product. Have any of the competitors out there put out a much higher payload vehicle that's in the same class as for a class three? I already see you guys as having a great payload of if not one of the best ones out there today. So what's changed that has really caused you to make this, you know, design switch here?
Rick Dauk
Yeah, Mike, good question. So that's one of the things I'm going to clarify with the team, you know, with the customers. Like I've had introductory calls with Pride and Pritchard, a couple others this week, talked to Chris, our head sales, been out to the factory. I need to understand that mix, okay? We'll see, okay? At the end of the day, the vehicle that we have designed doesn't quite meet the specs we want to get from a payload. It's a little heavy versus what we can carry. So we've got to figure out just how big the market is for a lower payload right now and how fast we can then tweak our designs and improve our vehicle dynamics to meet the higher payload requirements. And so this is like you said, who else is out there? I don't know anybody else is out there with a fully electric powered vehicle. This is a space that has been typically a duopoly between the Schiff Group and the Morgan Olson Group, and we're the first ones coming to market with an electric-powered vehicle. As I said earlier, we have the powertrain down. Now we have to get the vehicle dynamics and the payloads down. I'm much happier to get that fixed. Those things can be fixed with good supplier coordination and good designs, okay? We'll come back to you when we come back in November. It's just what we can build and go forward. Steve, any comments?
Tony
Yeah, Mike, what I might add, too, is a couple things. I think we admitted that we didn't hit the design goals that we wanted to hit from a payload standpoint. But I think at the same time, the market probably changed a little bit, too. And the pandemic, you know, I think not only were they getting more packages, but heavier packages and more than anticipated. So I think, yes, we didn't hit our design goal. But at the same time, the market is carrying a lot more than they anticipated just a year ago, too. So I think that's part of it right there.
Operator
Got it. That's great, Kelly. Thank you. For my follow-up, I wanted to ask about orders. Can you maybe outline how many orders you may have gotten during this past quarter and whether, you know, if the process of having to redesign for a higher payload, do you anticipate not having many until you get that design retested, re-homologated, et cetera? Are we going to be in a pause here for a quarter or two at the very least?
Rick Dauk
Yeah, let's take a look. I'm going to take a look at the 8,000 back order, what we can serve in the next two quarters or three quarters and build up at Union City, which ones we need to delay until we have the right designs going forward. As I said, over the weekend when I had a phone call, one of the customers was ready to drop a 1,500 to 2,000 unit order. And I just told him, hold off, please. Let me figure out what we can build, what materials we have to build with. Can our people handle it? And can we build a good truck? So we've got some work to do for sure in the next 90 days. Please give me the three months to get that under control. How's that? Please not to get under control. Let me understand. I don't know exactly how many orders came in in the second quarter. But I know there's a market is there. And the demand is growing. So it's really a race to get the right vehicle that meets the customer specs. Power train, as I said, 96% of the vehicles on the last mile delivered for Class 3, 4, 5 only travel less than 100 miles a day. The more they go out to 120, 150, we can handle that power train. I'm sure we have to do a little bit of tweaking in cold weather environments when it's super cold up in Canada or northeast and that kind of stuff. I don't know enough about the technology, but we'll get there. I'm confident about that.
Operator
Rick, thanks so much, and that's the good news in a hopefully pending order. Thanks so much for the help. At this time, this concludes the company's question and answer session. If your question was not taken, you may contact Workhorse's investor relations team at wkhs at gatewayir.com. I'd now like to turn the call back over to Mr. Dock for closing comments.
Rick Dauk
Thanks for joining us on today's call. I especially want to thank our employees, our business partners, and our investors for their continued support of Workhorse. We appreciate your interest in Workhorse, and I look forward to updating you on our next call. Operator, that ends our call. Thanks.
Operator
Thank you for joining us today for Workhorse Group's second quarter 2021 earnings conference call. You may now disconnect.
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