Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2023 01:12:27 +0000
FedEx Canada this week is touting the fact that it has added 50 Brightdrop Zevo 600 electric delivery vans to service the needs of customers in Toronto, Montreal, and Surrey. The fact that the Brightdrop vans are manufactured in Canada is a plus. FedEx has set a goal of transitioning to an all-electric fleet of […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 18 May 2023 18:50:08 +0000
The demand for electric work vans is increasing as commercial customers learn how inexpensive they are to operate and maintain.
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2023 20:25:26 +0000
GM (Or is it the gentler, kinder lowercase “gm” now?) recently announced several good things for its EV efforts. Bolt EV and EUV sales are going good, Brightdrop (its electric cargo van division) scored some important partnerships, and among them is a really good deal it struck with Ryder. Let’s take a good look at […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2022 20:05:55 +0000
When we talk about the “last mile” in delivery, there’s a part of that last mile that we often leave out: the last few yards. The rest of the mile before that is usually trucks that come from a local depot of some kind to drop packages to customers, but that doesn’t mean the packages […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2022 16:05:42 +0000
Brightdrop has begun manufacturing Zevo 600 electric delivery vans in Canada. The first of them will be delivered to DHL Express in 2023.
Credit to Author: Tim Tyler| Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2022 15:00:49 +0000
BrightDrop shared with investors today that it expected to cross the $1 billion sales mark in 2023, making it one of the fastest businesses to do so. By the end of the decade, the company expects to reach 20% profit margins and up to $10 billion in revenue. The BrightDrop Zevo lineup of electric delivery […]
Credit to Author: Jo Borrás| Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 14:05:59 +0000
Electrification makes everything easier.
Credit to Author: EV News Today| Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2022 03:20:38 +0000
A homebuilt electric plane, the Rolls-Royce goal of leading the electric aviation market, hydrogen infrastructure for airports, and more electric aviation news is just the tip of the EV news roundup this week. Also, regarding the water, Cara Delevingne offers wise words and urges people to avoid fast fashion and diesel engines. Plus, Polestar launches […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 16:05:21 +0000
GM’s Brightdrop division, a unit focused on electric work vans, recently bought a company that could give it an edge in artificial intelligence and other software capabilities. “We’re bringing entirely new ways of doing business to the delivery market by providing a holistic, one-stop-shop portfolio of first- to last-mile solutions that allow fleet customers to […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 18:05:04 +0000
FedEx and Brightdrop recently announced that the first 150 Zevo 600 electric vans have been delivered to facilities around southern California. This would make for one of the biggest deployments of electric vans to date. “This shows how BrightDrop is delivering sustainable solutions at scale to customers today, and we couldn’t be happier to be […]