Carries and secures approximately 23 total cubic feet of cargo.Built-in electric hub motor with adjustable speed up to 3 mph depending on operator’s walking pace.Available in early 2021, the EP1 can help reduce package touch points, costs and physical strain on delivery drivers. The BrightDrop ecosystem includes: First-to-last-mile productsīrightDrop EP1 – BrightDrop’s first product to market, the EP1, will be a propulsion-assisted, electric pallet developed to easily move goods over short distances – for example, from the delivery vehicle to the customer’s front door. To help meet this surge in demand, while reducing the impact on the planet, BrightDrop is developing an integrated set of solutions to help improve almost every aspect of first-to-last-mile delivery. The details of BrightDrop were sent via press release and are included below: GM stated that initial trials for FedEx and others have been in high-density urban environments. That should be more than enough for initial local vehicles. Many more players are already in this space or planning to enter this space, like Workhorse, which announced 100,000 fleet orders earlier this week.īrightDrop’s EV600 delivery vehicle has some interesting specs: 250-mile range, 170 miles/hour charging on 120kW CCS Combo via GM’s Ultium battery and drivetrain technology.

‘We are building on our significant expertise in electrification, mobility applications, telematics and fleet management, with a new one-stop-shop solution for commercial customers to move goods in a better, more sustainable way.’īright Drop will obviously be playing in the same space as Ford’s announced electric E-Transit vans as well as the Rivian-Amazon partnership products we’ve already seen. ‘BrightDrop offers a smarter way to deliver goods and services,’ said Mary Barra, GM chairman and CEO. The first of these products will deliver this year in the form of 500 FedEx delivery vehicles, but we’re told GM has many other partners who have signed letters of intent, and those will be announced later and start rolling out in 2022. Today General Motors announced BrightDrop, a new division and brand, which will offer an “ecosystem of electric first-to-last-mile products” for logistics companies. Today GM CEO Mary Barra announced a new division called BrightDrop that would be building electric delivery vehicles and the technology to go along with it. The GM announcements keep coming at CES 2021 this year.

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