US Postal Service will purchase six Canoo electrical supply vans

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 can be righthand-drive variations of the Canoo LDV 190 mannequin, in line with 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 toes of cargo area, and a 1,624-pound payload capability, in line with Canoo’s web site.

The Postal Service is enterprise a $40 billion effort to affect its fleet. It plans to purchase 21,000 EVs based mostly on present designs—together with 9,250 Ford E-Transit vans—plus not less than 45,000 electrical variations of its custom-designed Subsequent Technology Supply Autos (NGDV).

The NGDV, supposed as a alternative 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 autos electrical, however the first EVs aren’t anticipated to reach till 2028.

The Postal Service is not the primary authorities entity Canoo has pitched its autos 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 Heart.

Within the personal sector, Canoo not too long ago introduced that it had delivered the primary autos in a 9,300-unit order to van rental agency Kingbee. In 2022, Walmart introduced plans to purchase hundreds of Canoo electrical vans. Manufacturing takes place in Oklahoma.