150 BrightDrop Zevo 600 Vans Delivered To FedEx
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GM has so far delivered 150 units of its new BrightDrop Zevo 600 vans to various FedEx locations throughout Southern California, the logistics company said this week.
FedEx Express, a subsidiary of the larger FedEx Corp., will use the battery-electric delivery vans for last-mile deliveries. The ongoing partnership between BrightDrop and FedEx will see the GM-owned company deliver a total of 2,500 van units over the next few years between both the Zevo 600 and the smaller Zevo 400.
In a statement, FedEx said the delivery of the first 150 vans “marks a critical milestone for FedEx as the company plans to transform its entire parcel pickup and delivery (PUD) fleet to all-electric, zero-tailpipe emissions by 2040.”
“At FedEx, we have ambitious sustainability goals, and our phased approach to vehicle electrification is a crucial part of our roadmap to achieve carbon neutral global operations,” said Mitch Jackson, FedEx’s Chief Sustainability Officer. “In just under six months, we’ve taken delivery of 150 BrightDrop Zevo 600s for our parcel pickup and delivery fleet. In today’s climate of chip shortages and supply chain issues, that’s no ordinary feat and a true testament to the collaboration between FedEx and BrightDrop.”
The BrightDrop Zevo 600 taps GM’s Ultium battery technology and Ultium drive motor technology, with the launch model utilizing an all-wheel-drive setup with two electric motors, a 20-module battery, and an estimated driving range of 250 miles. Other model variants will arrive at a later date, including the smaller Zevo 400 van, as well as front-wheel-drive versions of the Zevo 600. Full-scale production of the Zevo 600 and Zevo 400 will take place at the GM CAMI Assembly plant in Canada later this year, with early models currently being built by a German supplier at a separate facility in Michigan.
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We are supposed to believe a battery laying in a landfill for eternity is safer than a empty fuel tank. Sure thing! Keep inhaling that Ivy League poison. Your great grandchildren and generations beyond will pay the price.
Richard you can huff all the fumes you want in the privacy of your own home. Cheer up!
Hopefully you know most of the materials in a Lithium battery can be recycled and that’s after most of these batteries have been used in second life applications like grid storage.
If they are still good enough for grid storage why would they be removed from the vehicles?
Grid storage involves them sitting stationary and mostly just keeping a charge until draw is needed.
Inside of a car, they are going to be charged and drained much more rapidly, plus have all the normal wear-and-tear of being on the road.
Two very different case uses.
No difference to the battery
LOL these batteries will last for well over a decade and will find many uses before they are recycled into new batteries.
Really? Most of the Li-ion batteries I am familiar with have a limited number of available charge cycles before fading. They also degrade with age.
You clearly have a very limited grasp on the environmental impacts of battery electric vehicles versus internal combustion. But if you truly cared about generations to come you would be wise to educate yourself instead of listening to the ignorant propaganda you’ve clearly been fed up to this point.
I think there’s ignorance and propaganda on both sides and a good dose of wishful thinking!
What examples do you have of conservatives displaying ignorance or propaganda in relation to electric vehicles?
I’m expecting our order of 24 next week for our pizza delivery service.
I love how EVs have suddenly created a new group of environmentalists. Suddenly it’s the top discussion. I invite this discussion as we always just accepted Intenal combustion without question. Now with the disruptive technology of Electric vehicles ICE fans now want to converse about environmental impacts. It’s awesome really.
Recyling. Ever heard of it?
I hope they don’t have radios. The FedEx driver serving my neighborhood comes through with the doors open blasting rap music filled with sexual obscenities. It’s very disturbing to be subjected to this every morning. I’m trying to raise good children and they hear it too. One can hear him coming from a long way away so I try and grab them and rush them indoors so I don’t have to explain what “F that hoe all night long” means or something similar. So, yes, I hope these new vans won’t have radios.
My fav song is grab her by the p***y
That’s different though.
If they don’t, that same driver and ones like him will just carry a ghetto blaster set.
Did you take the plate or truck number, then call 800 GO FEDEX and file a complaint?
Grizzly we get it, you kiss your cousin. Don’t need to share it with all of us though
I have it all on video but I’m afraid the driver will retaliate. I get packages from him too. UPS and FedEx are night and day apart. UPS is top notch in my opinion. I know they get bored driving and like a little music. That would be fine but the entire neighborhood doesn’t want to hear someone else’s music and especially not if the lyrics require a obscene content label. That’s just inconsiderate.
i hope those drivers don’t start spouting passages from the bible. that will stuff will really give your kids nightmares.
Steve,
I wouldn’t want to hear that blasting each morning either. Maybe Brightdtop should equip the vans with headrest speakers with limited volume capabilities.
I’m the smartest person on this website I’m superior to all of you.
Sorry I made you feel inferior whoever you are
Charlie…. You need retire from this site and take up fishing. Last mile delivery HAR! HAR! HAR!
And the cow jumped over the moon.
This is the whitest thing that has ever been posted to this website.
No the whitest thing is using a different name realizing it’s not the name you wanted then editing it within 10 minutes to gurt.
What makes that white?
I’ve made some very racist statements on here before so people are calling me out for that.
These are FedEx Express, your driver is probably ground. They are subcontractors and own their own and pay for vehicles and all expenses work crazy hours as they’re not union. I say let them have their creature comforts as longs as they deliver. It’s back breaking work.
Hero
How much cargo space is dedicated for the batteries?
None. Space designated for cargo is for… cargo.
How much cargo space in your pickup, van, or SUV is designated for gasoline?
All but the cab and gas tank. If the batteries occupy more volume than a gas tank they are consuming cargo / payload space.
“All but the cab and gas tank” is the same as “All but the cab and the batteries”
Read comment above. If batteries occupy more space than a gas tank would then they are consuming cargo space.
None the batteries are in the floor
That’s still vehicle volume used by batteries instead of payload.
And having a gas tank means that vehicle volume used by a gas tank instead of payload.
Geez, the point is that batteries take up more space and are heavier than a gas tank!
Yes but if you include the engine transmission, radiator and all the other fluid holding chambers the EV wins out on extra space.
Our gated community Home Owners Association is seriously considering signs that say no electric delivery vans allowed due to possible fire hazard. With many over 100 degree days in our area you can understand the fear of those batteries pulling that kind of a load of overheating. We have not heard one word about cooling equipment for those dangerous lithium batteries.
Home Owner Associations are a strange breed. Do they also have, or are they proposing, mandatory outdoor parking for vehicles on recall for potential fires, most of which – ironically – are caused by defective wiring?
Dear Grizzly,…It is a known fact that lithium batteries produce heat under load. If you doubt such science, check the lithium battery installed in a weed eater after 20 minutes use. They are so hot it is difficult to handle them with bare hands. What cooling, if any, has been installed in the Bright Drop vans?
ICE cars remain ice cold when you drive them, it’s one of their many safety features.
It’s a good thing ICE vehicles never catch fire.
It is quite obvious that the ZEVO 600 is no more than a hurried pacifier for uncle Joe’s dream of a green new world built on a one ton Chevy Express platform. Anybody who knows GM can easily recognize it.
Gas vehicles are several multiples more likely to have a fire than an electric vehicle. So I presume they have banned gas vehicles already?
Dear Neromanceres,
Remember what Smokey says: ” ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT (EV CAUSED) FORREST FOREST FIRES”.