General Motors Co. is developing an electric van aimed at business users, joining a growing list of carmakers planning EVs for the same segment which includes customers such as Amazon.com Inc and United Parcel Service Inc.
The Detroit automakers, which count trucks and commercial vehicles among their most profitable businesses, ‘don’t want to leave the door open for Tesla’ as they did in consumer passenger cars.
The GM electric van is code-named BV1, and it is due to start production in late 2021 at GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck factory. It will be built using GM’s new Ultium battery platform, which will support a series of new electric vehicles coming in the next few years.
Read the article at Electrek.