Stellantis’ Ram is expected to offer a ProMaster EV, also based on the current ICE model, about the 2024 model year. Ford might not have that disadvantage for long: A dedicated battery-electric Ford E-Transit is expected about the 2027 model year, according to another source in competitive analysis. The 2026 BV1 Chevy Express/GMC Savana replacements will add significant volume to GM’s Ultium battery platform-key to easing the cost of the new technology-while the E-Transit is based on the conventional gas-powered Transit van.
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The Chevy/GMC’s basic designs can be traced back to the 1971 model year, with an all-new model for 1997 and its last major update for 2003.įord’s 2022 E-Transit electric van comes in eight configurations, including three roof heights and three body lengths, plus cutaway and chassis cab versions. The lame-duck GM van twins-their tooling long ago paid off-fall short of Ford and Ram competitors based on much fresher European styling-though the strategy to go directly from 35-year-old designs to EVs might prove smartest.
FedEx plans to eventually have 2500 BrightDrop vans in its fleet, on the way to an all-electric vehicle fleet by 2040. Un-sexy as this part of the EV business is, it’s huge, with perhaps the best potential to quickly get the automotive business out of carbon-spewing internal-combustion engines. The Zevo 600 has cargo capacity of “more than 600 cubic feet,” while the current Chevy Express/GMC Savana has capacity of 284.4 cubic-feet for the long-wheelbase version.īrightDrop delivered its first 150 Zevo delivery vans to Federal Express last week.
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