Factbox: Electric delivery vehicle makers and major orders in the works

FDG Electric Vehicles

09/09/2020 11:00

Sept 9 (Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic has added a
fresh boost to the rise of e-commerce, which has traditional
automakers and startups racing to produce electric delivery
vehicles that are increasingly sought-after thanks to their
mileage efficiency and ability to harvest data and upgrade new
software features overnight.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N2FZ1AZ 
    Below are some of the major orders and automakers' projects
under way to bring more electric delivery vans and trucks to
market:
       
    - Ford Motor Co  F.N  is working on an electric version of
its popular Transit van. Ford will roll out an all-electric
version of the van for North America in model year 2022,
mirroring the timetable for launching a similar model for the
European market in 2022.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL2N2AR1XV
    
    - General Motors Co  GM.N  is developing an electric van for
business users. The GM van – code-named BV1 – which is due to
start production in late 2021.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N2DF0HS
    
    - Amazon.com Inc  AMZN.O  ordered 100,000 electric vans last
year from startup Rivian Automotive LLC - in which it has
invested.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL2N26A0WH The first of those vans is due for
delivery in 2021 and a Rivian spokeswoman said production will
begin on schedule. 
    
    - Amazon also ordered 1,800 delivery vans last month from
Daimler AG's  DAIGn.DE  Mercedes-Benz car and vans division for
its European fleet. The first of those vans will be delivered by
the end of this year.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N2FT2AY
    
    - Electric truck maker Nikola Corp  NKLA.O  and CNH
Industrial NV  CNHI.MI  truck unit Iveco are due to start
producing a jointly developed electric big rig in
2021. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N28D1JS Nikola is also working on a hydrogen fuel cell
model that should begin production in 2023.
    
    - Tesla Inc  TSLA.O  is still working on its long-awaited
Semi, a big rig it claims will have a range of up to 500 miles
(805 km). Production of the Semi was originally slated to begin
in 2019, but has been moved back to 2021. Tesla had a large
number of pre-orders for the Semi from customers like UPS.
       
    - UPS  UPS.N  has ordered 10,000 vans from UK startup
Arrival Ltd - the majority for the U.S. market - in which UPS
also owns a minority stake. UPS said it expects to take delivery
of "small numbers" of Arrival vehicles beginning in 2021, with
larger-scale production beginning in 2022.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N29Y26G
    
    - Navistar International Corp  NAV.N  will launch an
electric school bus by the end of this year, with electric
trucks following at an undisclosed point after that. 
    Gary Horvat, vice president of eMobility at Navistar, said
the truck maker is "getting a lot of requests from all across
the country and all the industries we support" about electric
trucks, with e-commerce also spurring demand.
    
    - Deutsche Post DHL Group's  DPWGn.DE  StreetScooter
electric vehicle unit plans to deploy its zero-emission delivery
van across the United States as soon as 2022.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL2N27V1OV
    
    - Electric delivery vehicle startup Chanje Energy Inc will
deliver 1,000 electric vans to package delivery company FedEx
Corp  FDX.N  in California in the first half of 2021. Chanje's
vans are assembled in China by FDG Electric Vehicles Ltd
 0729.HK , currently its main investor.
    
    - Workhorse Group Inc  WKHS.O  is due to start production in
the fourth quarter of its electric delivery trucks at a rate of
100 vehicles per month. Chief Financial Officer Steve Schrader
said that number will rise to 200 vehicles per month in 2021.
    UPS has ordered 50 electric trucks from Workhorse, with an
option for 950 more. Workhorse is also among the bidders for a
U.S. Postal Service contract to replace its fleet of delivery
vans. 
    - Michigan-based specialty vehicle company Shyft Group Inc
 SHYF.O  recently announced it would launch production of
electric delivery trucks in 2021 with a production capacity of
up to 5,000 units per year. The company says it already has
orders from "two leading parcel delivery companies," but
declined to name them.
    
    Startup Bollinger Motors, which has yet to produce any
vehicles, announced last month it will start producing electric
delivery vans in 2022.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N2FT1J8
    

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 (Reporting by Nick Carey in Davenport, Iowa
Editing by Matthew Lewis)
 ((nick.carey@thomsonreuters.com; +1 312 636 8837;))