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Back in January, General Motors launched a new spin-off named BrightDrop centered on electric last-mile logistics vehicles, and has now completed its first delivery, less than twelve months later. The company’s EV600s have been handed off to FedEx who … Continue reading FedEx takes delivery of first electric vans from GM’s BrightDrop
Sydney-based ebike maker Zoomo has announced the US launch of the Zoomo One utility ebike, which has been designed to encourage last-mile delivery operations to make the switch from gas-powered mopeds to cleaner package hauling.Continue ReadingCategory… Continue reading Zoomo aims to clean up last-mile delivery with One utility ebike
Around this time last year, robotics startup Nuro was granted a deployment permit in California for its autonomous delivery vehicle. Now the company has partnered with convenience store chain 7-Eleven for the first autonomous commercial delivery servic… Continue reading Nuro and 7-Eleven launch autonomous delivery service in California
Commercial e-vehicle startup Volta Trucks has reached another milestone in its plans to get purpose-built 16-tonne electric haulers onto city streets. Production of the first road-going Volta Zero prototypes has begun at a bespoke facility in Coventry,… Continue reading First road-going Volta Zero electric cargo truck prototypes in production
Although we hear a lot about the development of urban aerial delivery drones, it’s quite likely that autonomous ground-based delivery vehicles will be in wide use first. REE Automotive’s Leopard EV is one example, and it’s just been unveiled as a physi… Continue reading Autonomous REE Leopard may soon be making deliveries to your home
Riding on the back of a US$400 million investment from Luxembourg’s GEM Global Yield, startup Biliti Electric is looking to bring the GMW Taskman three-wheeled electric delivery vehicle to the US, debuting at AutoMobility LA on November 17.Continue Rea… Continue reading Three-wheeled electric cargo hauler with hot-swap batteries to debut in LA
It wasn’t quite nine months ago that General Motors introduced BrightDrop as its new brand for electric urban delivery solutions. And now BrightDrop is rolling its first production EV600 delivery trucks off the lines, setting a GM-wide record for the f… Continue reading BrightDrop readies first electric vans at record-setting pace
Cargo bicycles may indeed be a clean, green option for making urban deliveries, but they can only carry moderately sized loads. The Trailerduck lets bikes haul much more cargo, by matching its power and steering to that of the bike that’s towing it – a… Continue reading Self-powered Trailerduck takes the weight off of bicycle deliveries
UK startup Arrival has inched closer to what it sees as the future of safer, cleaner urban deliveries, carrying out a fully autonomous demonstration at a local parcel depot for the first time. The exercise was billed as a successful one and, after vali… Continue reading Arrival’s delivery van demos its autonomous chops at a UK parcel depot
Startup Electric Assist Vehicles (EAV) entered the electric mobility space back in 2019 with a pedal-assist quadracycle designed to carry out urban cargo deliveries, and soon added variants with tractor trailers and refrigeration modules followed by tw… Continue reading EAV’s electric delivery trucks can join together to form a “road train”