GMBrightDrop’s has added more orders for its all-electric EV600 and EV410 delivery vehicles. Walmart has pre-ordered 5,000 vehicles from the company, Brightdrop . Like FedEx, received Of 500 orders placed from BrightDrop late last year, the retailer hopes to have a fleet of all-electric delivery vehicles by 2040. Walmart says it will use these vehicles as part of its fleet of vehicles. . In 2022, the company plans to expand its service capacity to 30 million U.S. households by the end of the year. Walmart estimates its first trucks from BrightDrop could hit the road as early as 2023.
Along with the news from Walmart, BrightDrop announced that FedEx has pre-ordered priority production for 2,000 additional EV600 delivery vehicles and could order an additional 20,000 vehicles over the next few years. The all-wheel drive EV600 has 600 cubic feet of cargo space and can go up to 250 miles on a single charge. It also includes auto-locking doors and motion-activated interior lighting.
GM and BrightDrop aren’t the only companies supplying electric vehicles to some of the biggest parcel delivery companies on the planet. In 2020, FedEx ordered 10,000 EVs from . Meanwhile, the electric transport startup Rivian in production for Amazon.
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