General Motors has already sold the first 500 examples of the BrightDrop EV600 to FedEx, but the battery-electric utility van is actually still under development. While its engineering team is busy handling things like the Ultium batteries and Ultium Drive motors, the design team is hard at work finalizing the vehicle’s interior styling and layout.
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Over the past week or so, GM has been providing fans with a look into the design process and development of the BrightDrop EV600 interior through the GM Design social media channels. First GM Design shared a post showing early interior sketches of the BrightDrop EV600 cabin, which noted that the early interior work for the van “focused on the most efficient layout and functional needs of the driver,” while various “innovative approaches for storage bins and ergonomics inspired the engineering architecture.” This sketch showed a single-seat interior with a tablet-like digital driver’s display and large storage cubbies to the right of the driver.
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GM Design then shared another rendering of the delivery van’s interior a day later, which gives us our best look yet at what the cabin of the EV600 will look like. The sketch reveals additional controls located to the left of the driver, along with simple rectangular HVAC vents on either side of the cabin. The description of this post indicates the storage cubbies to the right of the driver are for package staging, which is why they are labeled with “1” and “2.”
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GM Design then posted yet another gallery related to the BrightDrop EV600’s interior design and development earlier this week, which showed an employee sitting on a seating buck with a virtual reality headset on. These VR headsets give GM Design an easy way to test the interior layout and ergonomics throughout the design process without having to actually build physical prototype interiors.
The BrightDrop EV600 will go into production at the GM CAMI plant in Ingersoll, Ontario later this year. The first 500 units of the delivery van will go to FedEx, while Merchant Fleet has placed an order for 12,500 examples of the electric commercial vans.
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check out the usps vehicle ford is going to help build. it is absoloutely hideous.
The Oshkosh thing? It absolutely is hideous.
But they got the contract and they’ll get paid.
it must have a hell of an hvac system that windshield is monstrous
They should have renewed the tender. New postmaster general says only ten percent of the vehicles will be EVs through this contact. It’s ridiculous. This bid turned into a long-winded story and lost its currency, it started five years ago when there was zero electric delivery vehicle prospect in sight, now they’re up to wazoo, on top of my head; From US: Canoo, Ford, Rivian, GM-BrightDrop, Workhorse from Europe: Daimler, Arrival… and everyday some other player is jumping to the bandwagon.
It’s a complete hypocrisy by Biden Admin. On the one hand they say they’re gonna replace all federal fleet with EVs then immediately blow the perfect opportunity.
it is a 10 year contract and will include ICE/EV vehicles. also the ICE vehicles will be able to be retrofitted with EV powertrain.
in some areas of the US, an EV postal vehicle probably isn’t practical.
slider is right on they should cancel the contract he had no problem doing it with the border wall with small areas to complete in relatively large completed areas and it may be paid for or the contractors may sue.
Why didn’t your beloved Trump do anything to finalize an agreement while he was in office? Oh, that’s right. He didn’t accomplish squat during his tenure and logical peeps saw through his facade and voted him out.
he accomplished dragging us into the gutter with him. i’ll give him that.
Trump was trying to pull us out of the gutter Obama put us in!
And it took Trump to get our boys out of those sand s***holes and get the economy straightened out Obama’s lines in the sand where worth as much as the solyndra loan