FedEx's new electric delivery vans don't have a gasoline engine, but they do offer a variety of convenient features for the driver.
Electric vehicles are here!
Major cities like London, Paris, and Barcelona are committed to reducing pollution, which essentially means they plan to eventually eliminate gas-powered vehicles altogether. And while good public transportation and cycling infrastructure make a total ban on personal vehicles possible, delivering isn’t that simple. The answer is electric delivery vehicles, which reduce noise and air pollution in cities and use less energy overall.
And FedEx's new electric vehicle, from GM's BrightDrop, shows what that future might look like.
“Delivery in cities requires short distances per day, lots of starting and stopping. It’s the perfect application for an EV van,” Willett Kempton, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Delaware, told Lifewire via email.
