This 12 months’s CES went digital because of the coronavirus pandemic, although that hasn’t slowed the bulletins. Normal Motors CEO Mary Barra delivered the present’s opening keynote in the present day whereas saying a number of GM EV endeavors. The automaker teased the 2022 Bolt EUV and the Cadillac Celestiq, although it additionally introduced a brand new industrial EV model known as BrightDrop that’ll start delivering its first merchandise someday this 12 months.
The larger of the 2 bulletins – actually – is the BrightDrop EV600. It’s a light-weight industrial supply van designed to ship items and providers on all-electric energy, utilizing GM’s Ultium batteries. GM claims the van will provide an estimated vary of as much as 250 miles on a single cost whereas charging at a peak charge of 170 miles of vary per hour with 120-kilowatt DC quick charging. It boasts over 600 cubic toes of cargo house whereas defending it with a cargo space movement safety system. GM additionally affords the van with an array of each normal – and elective – security tools, akin to automated emergency braking or rear cross-traffic braking.
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The opposite BrightDrop product that’ll be out there would be the EP1. It’s an all-electric pallet designed to assist transport cargo. It will probably retailer about 23 cubic toes of cargo with a 200-pound payload capability. The EP1 is designed to assist ship items over brief distances, like from the supply van to the client’s entrance door. It’ll function lockable cupboard doorways and adjustable shelving organizers. GM says it options built-in electrical hub motors that may attain as much as 3 miles per hour.
Each merchandise can be out there this 12 months, with the EP1 turning into out there in early 2021 whereas the EV600 will observe in later this 12 months. The primary electrical supply vans ought to be delivered by the top of the 12 months, with FedEx being BrightDrop’s first buyer. The brand new EV industrial model hopes to make the EV600 out there to order to extra clients beginning in early 2022. BrightDrop’s new van seems to be prefer it’ll compete towards the Ford E-Transit, the Blue Oval’s 126-mile electrical supply van set to reach for the 2022 mannequin 12 months.
