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GM BrightDrop EV600 electric van revealed as new business wins FedEx order
Chris Davies - Jan 12, 2021, 8:30am CST
GM has launched a new electric business, BrightDrop, aiming to corner the market in EV vans and delivery vehicles along with the motorized pallets and software ecosystem to track them. Fresh out of General Motors’ Global Innovation division, BrightDrop – which already counts FedEx among its first customers – will use the automaker’s Ultium platform for all-electric vehicles.
So far, we’ve seen Ultium as the basis of consumer trucks, SUVs, and crossovers, with the promise of other vehicle types in due course. BrightDrop, however, will be using it for an all-electric delivery vehicle, the EV600.
GM has launched a new business unit to offer commercial customers starting with FedEx an ecosystem of electric and connected products, the latest effort in the company’s ambitious $27 billion bid to become a leading electric automaker. The new business, called BrightDrop, which officially launched Tuesday during the virtual 2021 CES, will begin […]