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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”
With a near monopoly on delivery, Amazon is understandably keen to make the job easier. The latest idea that may or may not eventually see the light of day is a new patent for a system where delivery vans would carry items almost to their destination, … Continue reading Amazon patents trucks that unleash and direct fleets of delivery drones
Content delivery networks (CDNs) have been around and have evolved over a long time (in internet years). They all speak HTTP and you can safely rely on them to work with just about anything else that speaks HTTP. This is the beauty of standards — HTTP in this case. What you cannot count on is there being a standard way to configure them. In some cases, this is understandable: they all have different advanced features, after all. But when it comes to the basics, such as controlling how content is cached, it just makes sense to have one common way to do it. Standards tend to mean simpler documentation and fewer oddities (read: bugs). The winners are the users who end up saving time and gaining agility. Continue reading Targeted Cache Control
Over the past few years, Nuro has been taking some important steps toward a future of autonomous delivery through partnerships with some big names, and it’s just landed what might be its biggest fish yet. The startup has entered an agreement with logis… Continue reading FedEx eyes a future of automated delivery through partnership with Nuro
Israel’s Mobileye, which was acquired by Intel back in 2017, has teamed up with startup Udelv to get an autonomous electric delivery pod called the Transporter on the streets by 2023, with a plan to produce 35,000 of the self-driving electric cargo hau… Continue reading Mobileye and Udelv confirm first large order for driverless delivery pod
UPS has signed a deal to buy up to 150 eVTOL aircraft from Vermont’s Beta Technologies, and is expecting to begin using them for time-sensitive zero-emissions deliveries in certain markets in 2024, taking off and landing on-site at UPS depots.Continue … Continue reading UPS plans to start deliveries via eVTOL in 2024
There are currently a number of companies aiming to roll out electric delivery vans – including Rivian, Ford and Canoo – but Michigan-based Electric Last Mile Inc is looking to make its Urban Delivery van the first Class 1 commercial EV to hit the US m… Continue reading Urban Delivery electric van to go into production in late 2021
After agreeing to build 10,000 electric delivery vans for UPS last year, UK startup Arrival has today revealed specs and images for its latest all-electric van, ahead of trials on public roads “with key customers” this (northern) summer.Continue Readin… Continue reading Arrival’s latest electric van set to begin trials on public roads