Canoo announced a big order for 4,500 electric delivery vehicles from Walmart. News that is timely as the Californian start-up is in turmoil.
4,500 Lifestyle Delivery Vehicles (LDV), cargo variant of the Canoo Lifestyle Vehicle, will be covered in Walmart livery after the American retail giant placed an order for them, with even an option to extend this figure to 10,000. However, he will have to be patient since the production of the vehicle will only start in the fourth quarter of 2022.
With 3,800 stores, Walmart will then use it for deliveries of orders made online, its ambition being by 2040 to make this device 100% emission-free. To achieve this, however, it must review its entire transport chain and this is the reason why it has also acquired the electric heavy goods vehicles Freightliner eCascadia and Nikola Tre BEV to rotate around its center of distribution in Fontana, Calif., with initial trials scheduled for this summer. For the last kilometer, no jealousy since large orders from BrightDrop, a GM subsidiary, and Ford e-Transit have also been made.
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And it is in this last category that the Canoo LDV will fall. The brand has still not revealed its technical data sheet in detail, contenting itself with presenting it as being based on its modular MPP platform integrating motors, battery modules and the rest of the other traction components, the capacity of the battery having been announced. last year to 80 kWh, allowing a range of 400 km. Its cargo volume is otherwise 3.4 m³, which will make it the smallest vehicle in Walmart’s fleet. It will therefore find its usefulness in high-frequency door-to-door delivery of small items, such as groceries or small parcels.
For Canoo, this huge order is a total relief since, covered in debt, the company was still asking questions about its future last May and the names of buyers were even beginning to circulate, such as Apple.
