Canoo on Thursday introduced that it’s going to promote six electrical supply vans to the U.S. Postal Service.
Due for supply to the Postal Service later this quarter, the vans will probably be righthand-drive variations of the Canoo LDV 190 mannequin, based on a press launch from the startup. The LDV 190 has a 79-kwh battery pack affording an estimated 200 miles of vary. It additionally has 200 hp, 172 cubic ft of cargo house, and a 1,624-pound payload capability, based on Canoo’s web site.
Canoo structural battery pack
The Postal Service is enterprise a $40 billion effort to impress its fleet. It plans to purchase 21,000 EVs primarily based on current designs—together with 9,250 Ford E-Transit vans—plus at the least 45,000 electrical variations of its custom-designed Subsequent Era Supply Automobiles (NGDV).
The NGDV, supposed as a substitute for the aptly named Grumman Lengthy Life Automobile (LLV) mail vans which were in service for many years, may be constructed with internal-combustion powertrains as nicely. The Postal Service has promised to purchase extra electrical variations in response to widespread criticism of an preliminary plan to make solely 10% of the automobiles electrical, however the first EVs aren’t anticipated to reach till 2028.
Canoo LDV 130 van in Kingbee livery
The Postal Service is not the primary authorities entity Canoo has pitched its automobiles to. The startup delivered a prototype pickup truck to the U.S. Military for analysis in 2022, and constructed three vans for NASA to move astronauts to launch pads on the Kennedy Area Middle.
Within the non-public sector, Canoo not too long ago introduced that it had delivered the primary automobiles in a 9,300-unit order to van rental agency Kingbee. In 2022, Walmart introduced plans to purchase 1000’s of Canoo electrical vans. Manufacturing takes place in Oklahoma.
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