GM brings EV600, a new electric delivery truck. Fedex ordered 500. A competition to Rivian's Amazon trucks ? Thoughts ? https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2021/01/12/gm-bright-drop-delivery-ev-delivery/6625884002/ #ev #rivianautomotive #generalmotors #ford #tesla
What are advantages of delivery vehicles being electric other than better for environment? Is the energy cost cheaper than gasoline?
I think delivery vehicles do a lot of within city driving where electric generally is better than gas
- Lower energy cost, predictable in advance (buy futures from power co or literally throw up solar panels and batteries) - Much lower maintenance costs - Probably easier to make autonomous - Much, much more efficient in the kind of low speed frequent stop driving deliveries are known for
Why is Rivian taking so long to deliver those electric vans to Amazon? 5+ years to deliver 100k vans? GM has the capacity to scale production easily, can deliver all 100k vans in a year
I suspect that the big hurdle is the battery component.
Good for GM, but Amazon wants them in 10 yrs
Does Brightdrop offer RSUs like Rivian?
This looks good! Hope GM can meet the demand, for GM sake.
GM really need to do this for USPS as well, their delivery vans are outdated.
Rivian’s truck looks much nicer.
In renderings !
Not people comparing us to GM! 😂Shouldn’t have insulted us with a lowball buy out attempt.
Massive savings on gas
Rivian is super behind. No strategy in place for autonomy of vehicle. Just concept vehicles and photoshop images....
How so? Would love to hear your thoughts from outside of the company.
May be you have electric cars ready.. but I bet it's not yet production ready.. https://www.thedrive.com/news/38717/listen-to-the-loud-irritating-noise-made-by-amazons-electric-rivian-delivery-vans Also, for autonomy what do guys use Machine Learning? Maps ? None of this is ready yet? GM has actual cars (in electric and autonomous world) in production.. What do you have to show for?
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Beat rivian to the punch it seems
How so?
Lol, it's not a competition