FedEx Receives First Electric Vans from GM's BrightDrop Venture

• BrightDrop's EV600 electric van has reached its first customer, FedEx, which received the first five out of a total order of 500 vans.

• The EV600 uses GM's Ultium batteries for a claimed 250-mile range and has 600 cubic feet of storage space.

• The BrightDrop purchase is part of FedEx's goal to become carbon neutral by 2040, which also includes reservations for 20 Tesla Semi trucks.

General Motors' Ultium battery platform isn't just underpinning the 1000-hp GMC Hummer EV and the upcoming Chevrolet Silverado EV with its available 24-inch wheels, it's also serving as the basis for something far more utilitarian: the BrightDrop EV600. First revealed last January, General Motors' electric commercial van has now officially arrived, with BrightDrop's first customer, FedEx, receiving five EV600s out of a total order of 500 late last week.