General Motors on Tuesday introduced completion of its first BrightDrop EV600 electrical supply vans, and revealed a second model dubbed EV410.
It’s a reasonably fast turnaround contemplating that GM solely introduced the EV600, in addition to plans to construct it in Ontario, Canada, in January. The EV600 is the primary mannequin for BrightDrop, a brand new standalone enterprise centered on electrical vans for industrial fleets.
Full improvement took simply 20 months, in line with GM, which claims the EV600 is the quickest car program to market in its historical past.
The first EV600 vans will go to FedEx in time for the vacation season, GM stated. However, manufacturing will stay low-volume for now, not ramping as much as full scale till November 2022, in line with the automaker. BrightDrop additionally beforehand mentioned plans to launch its EP1 electrical pallet system earlier than the tip of 2021.
The EV600 will likely be adopted by the EV410, with a shorter wheelbase of simply over 150 inches and an general size of underneath 20 toes. Like the EV600, GM quoted a 250-mile vary and a gross car weight score (GVWR) of underneath 10,000 kilos for the EV410.
The shorter model will likely be constructed on the identical Canadian manufacturing facility because the EV600, starting in 2023. The first examples of those vans will go to Verizon.
BrightDrop EV410
GM can be getting ready a fleet model of its Ultium Charge 360 service with fleet and facility administration instruments plus integration with OnStar Vehicle Insights telematics and BrightDrop’s personal administration platform.
While GM goes with a clean-sheet design, rival Ford’s E-Transit is an electrical model of the present (and very talked-about, admittedly) Transit van. Amazon is getting bespoke electrical vans from Rivian, which the net commerce big has invested in.
