The commercial EV company specializing in long-range delivery vans picked up DHL Express Canada as a client as it begins production in Ontario.Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge
BrightDrop, the GM-backed EV logistics company, is announcing its first international client: DHL Express Canada. This comes alongside news that the company is commencing production of its Zevo 600 delivery vans at its Ontario-based CAMI assembly plant. The CAMI plant is Canada’s first large-scale EV factory, according to BrightDrop. The company projects the location to output 50,000 Zevo EVs per year by 2025. GM poured about $800 million into the CAMI plant to prep it for BrightDrop, with at-scale production of the larger Zevo 600 vehicle set to begin in January while production of its smaller Zevo 400 will start in late 2023.DHL Express Canada expects to get its first Zevo vans early next year.
According to BrightDrop, it now has over 30 customers and counts more than 25,000 vehicles as either reserved or intended for. In the US, its biggest customers include FedEx and Walmart, the latter of which