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Walmart wants to buy 5, 000 electric delivery vans from GM’s BrightDrop

Enlarge / A BrightDrop EV600 delivery van in Walmart’s livery. The retailer wants to buy 5, 000 BrightDrop EVs in total. (credit: BrightDrop) The electric delivery vehicle startup BrightDrop is on a roll. Set up by General Motors, BrightDrop leveraged the automaker’s investment in its new Ultium battery platform and Ultium Drive electric motors to […]

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Electric vans are all the rage at DHL, UPS—maybe even USPS, too

By year’s end, 99 of these electric Transit vans will be delivering packages for DHL Express in California and New York. [credit: Lighting eMotors ] Electrifying commercial fleets of vehicles makes even more sense than trying to persuade individual private citizens to switch to electric vehicles. After all, if you convince your neighbor to buy […]