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January 13, 2021

GM charges up new unit to sell electric delivery vans

  • The EV600 van on the roads late this year with 500 going to FedEx.
    • By TOM KRISHER
    AP Auto Writer

    DETROIT — The market for battery-powered delivery vehicles and equipment has so much potential that General Motors is forming a new business unit to serve it, a move that lifted the automaker's stock to a multiyear high.

    The first product for the new venture called BrightDrop will be an electric-powered wheeled pallet that will take goods from the warehouse to trucks and from trucks to destinations. Then GM will roll out a clean electric delivery van.


     
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