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Lordstown motors, a start-up company that acquired the company's factory in lodestown, Ohio, USA, said recently that it would enter the new energy vehicle market with electric pickups and released renderings and relevant information about the latest electric pickups. It is reported that the first pickup launched by Lordstown motors is called endurance. It can be seen from the rendering that the car adopts a fully enclosed front face design, and a middle net shape is outlined with trapezoid at the front of the car. The headlights group may be "hidden" in the narrow gap between the trapezoid middle net and the front engine compartment cover. The body side is not different from the traditional pickup truck. The strip design extends from the front to the side and the rear of the car, echoing each other. The company said that the model will be equipped with hub electric on four wheels. This design will reduce the internal mechanical transmission mechanism, so that the vehicle's mechanical failure is less, and the owner can also have less maintenance cost. New cars will be delivered in the fourth quarter of 2020 at a starting price of $52500, excluding after tax relief. The car is open for booking, with a deposit of $1000. Interestingly, the date when Lordstown motors chose to release the renderings and new car reservation information is the same as the time when cybertruck was released, and the new car deposit is the same. Many foreign media said that the company is suspected of heating up. Another major shareholder of Lordstown motors is a car generation plant called work horse, which has been developing its own pick-up trucks, but its performance seems to be poor. Foreign media reported that the net sales of work horse in 2018 was only $763.