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2025 BrightDrop Zevo 400 And 600 Finally Get FWD, AWD Variants

While The General originally planned to make both front-wheel-drive and all-wheel-drive configurations of the BrightDrop Zevo 400 and BrightDrop Zevo 600 vans for the 2024 model year, all currently available information points to only AWD variants making it into actual production.

As GM Authority reported, a 14-module battery pack (RPO code EW2) was also supposed to be released, but never reached production for the 2024 BrightDrop Zevo models either.

Front three quarters view of the BrightDrop Zevo.

Now, it appears both FWD and AWD units of the BrightDrop Zevo will be built for the 2025 model year, GM Authority has learned. Furthermore, it has now been revealed that two battery pack sizes will be available for the 2025 Zevo 400 and 600, including the 12-module unit (RPO code ETC) and the 20-module unit (RPO code ETJ).

Revised range figures and other information about the 2025 BrightDrop Zevo in both configurations can be found on the following table:

2025 BrightDrop Zevo Configurations
Model Zevo 400 FWD Zevo 400 AWD Zevo 600 FWD Zevo 600 AWD
Powertrain 1-motor 2-motor 1-motor 2-motor
Output (hp/kW) 240/180 300/225 240/180 300/225
Torque (pound-feet/Nm) 300/405 390/530 300/405 390/530
Standard Battery Pack 14-module 14-module 14-module 14-module
Standard Range (miles/km) 166/267 166/267 166/267 166/267
Optional Battery Pack - 20-module - 20-module
Optional Range (miles/km) - 272/437 - 272/437
Standard Charging Module 11.5 kW 11.5 kW 11.5 kW 11.5 kW
Optional Charging Module 19.2 kW 19.2 kW 19.2 kW 19.2 kW
DC Fast Charging 120 kW 120 kW 120 kW 120 kW
Standard GVWR (lbs.) 9,900 9,900 9,900 9,900
Optional GVWR (lbs.) 11,000 11,000 11,000 11,000

Side view of the BrightDrop Zevo.

After numerous production halts, production of the BrightDrop Zevo resumed during the early days of April 2024 at the GM CAMI Assembly plant in Ontario, Canada. Assembly of the vehicles was halted for six months most recently, and for different, shorter periods before that, on account of a lack of battery modules to install in the commercial EVs.

The Zevo vans, whose all-electric powertrain utilizes GM Ultium batteries and GM Ultium Drive motors, are currently in service with Walmart, Hertz, FedEx, Verizon, and additional companies.

However, with the absorption of the BrightDrop subsidiary into GM Envolve, other products in the lineup, specifically the Trace and Trace Grocery e-carts, have been put on hold. A GM representative said that development of the carts is paused rather than canceled, raising the possibility they will be offered again, and further developed, in the future. Meanwhile, the company is focusing exclusively on the Zevo vans.

Assembly line view of the BrightDrop Zevo.

GM plans to boost production of the BrightDrop Zevo to 50,000 vehicles annually by 2025 and expects revenues to reach or surpass $10 billion on Zevo sales by 2030.

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Comments

  1. An ICE V8 would have been a better option!

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    1. Oh yeah, because all the start/stop city driving & higher miles exactly calls for a ICE V8, come on man. Electric is about perfect for this type of things, city delivery driving. Charge over night, pretty much zero maintenance and much easier on the driver and company with an EV.

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    2. An I-6 diesel would have been perfect.

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  2. Would love like a 300-400 mile range version that could be outfitted as a camper van.

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    1. If they can put the 24 module battery pack in this then it might be possible.

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