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Here’s How The BrightDrop Trace Works: Video

Early in 2021, GM launched BrightDrop, offering delivery and logistics companies an ecosystem of last-mile electric delivery solutions, software, and services. Among the products available is the BrightDrop Trace, as featured in the following brief video.

Clocking in at just 1-minute, 40-seconds, the video provides an overview of what BrightDrop is and the features that it has to offer. Previously dubbed BrightDrop EP1, BrightDrop Trace is an electrically assisted cargo pallet that rolls on four wheels to more easily transport goods to their intended destination, and was designed to “reduce touches, errors, labor costs, and physical strain on the labor force.”

BrightDrop Trace has already seen use in pilot programs conducted in Toronto and New York City, resulting in drivers spending 50 percent less time on the curb. As such, BrightDrop Trace enabled couriers to handle 25 percent more packages per day.

Propelling the e-cart is a built-in electric hub motor that includes an adjustable speed up to 3 mph, allowing one individual to move 200 pounds of payload nearly effortlessly. In terms of dimensions, BrightDrop Trace is 57.8 inches tall, 42 inches wide, and 24 inches deep, allowing it to carry a multiplicity of packages, while still being small and nimble enough to easily move in and out of buildings. Inside, BrightDrop trace includes adjustable shelving for streamlined storage and organization.

Of course, BrightDrop Trace also incorporates a range of smart technology as well, including chain of custody insights and real-time data tracking, as well as remote locking functionality.

In addition to offering the new BrightDrop Trace, the delivery solutions company also offers the Zevo 600. Previously called the BrightDrop EV600, the Zevo 600 incorporates an all-electric powertrain with GM Ultium batteries and GM Ultium drive motors, providing 250 miles of range per charge and a peak charging rate of 170 miles of range per hour.

BrightDrop Zevo 600

BrightDrop Zevo 600

The interior is spacious enough to haul more than 600 cubic feet of cargo, while a variety of safety technology features are included as standard, including Front and Rear Park Assist, Automatic Emergency Braking, Forward Collision Alert, Front Pedestrian Braking, and HD Rear Vision Camera, among others.

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Jonathan is an automotive journalist based out of Southern California. He loves anything and everything on four wheels.

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  1. Yea dollys already do this so…

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    1. Do dollies move themselves, secure the cargo contained within, can be dropped off by a driverless delivery vehicle any time of day or night, any day of the week irregardless of whether the client is open for business or not, automatically return curbside once the dolly is emptied to await pick up by the next available driverless delivery vehicle passing through the neighbourhood?

      Nah, didn’t think so. You do realize that’s where this is heading in the very near future. More people not working in this current world situation we’re crashing into at breakneck speed.

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      1. Dude, these won’t be used in driverless vehicles…. Or have you missed the raids on FedEx trucks in Bigger cities???? We are light years away from “autonomous deleivery” factories today can’t even run themselfs. Or have you missed the army of engineers needed to keep PLC’s running. This really is a novelty that will be enjoyed at executive offices. UPS, FedEx, USPS, will continue to work more efficiently with grunts moving packages.

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      2. @ Jeff Ramackers
        You must be fat and lazy.

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      3. in this utopia you describe are there are no thieves? Are roads/sidewalks/walkways the proper grade and are never damaged? A way of taking the package from the cart, securely, without a person involved, say in the middle of the night?
        And yes, dollies do move themselves if the need is there. go to any factory and there is examples of this.

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  2. I remember back to the days when I worked at UPS. Very few packages fit the size of these containers. I envision the drivers having to stack other packages on top and carry the odd sized long packages in their other arm. It’s an idea but not a solution. If they are lockable, maybe it’ll preserve some of the packages that are getting stolen by people on the street

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    1. They will likely have different trucks for different sized packages and get the most efficient routs for the more numerous and smaller packages in these cars.

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      1. Most efficient isn’t having 2-3 different trucks going to the same spot for different packages. Or carrying 2-3 different size carts per truck. It’s more efficient to have a class 6 uhaul with 3 guys in it hit every single spot on a 100 mile route.

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  3. I like how the people commenting know more about delivery than GM or FedEx they piloted this with.

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    1. I use to work for FedEx for 35 years and worked my way up so yes I do know more then gm.

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  4. not sure what audience that video is for. There are many actual delivery folks who have Proof of Concepted this that could have spoken to the benefits right? Not one of those people in the video would last an hour on a route. The director of procurement was an especially interesting choice.
    Great points about the lack of uniformity in delivery boxes. That would be an interesting video on how to handle that.

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