EV startup Canoo this week confirmed fleet-management firm Zeeba has ordered at the very least 3,000 of its electrical vans.
The latter firm has signed an settlement for five,450 autos, with an preliminary binding settlement of three,000 autos by way of 2024, Canoo stated in a press launch. Zeeba will lease these autos to small- and medium-sized companies, however Canoo continues to be imprecise on a manufacturing timeline.
Canoo Life-style Car
Canoo is “finalizing our multi-year allocations for 2023 buyer deliveries and can share our manufacturing plan with the broader market shortly,” Canoo CEO Tony Aquila stated in a press release. Late final 12 months Canoo shifted its manufacturing plan away from the Netherlands to Arkansas, the place it says it’s going to construct autos earlier than it once more shifts manufacturing to Oklahoma.
Zeeba’s order contains each the Life-style Car that was Canoo’s initially mentioned manufacturing model and the Life-style Supply Car, a cargo-only model with as much as 120 cubic ft of cargo area, Canoo claims. The fleet supervisor joins Walmart in ordering autos from the EV startup—which was on the snapping point.
Canoo battery – June 2021 iinvestor presentation
Canoo began with a model that was aimed towards private customers, and supplied the autos solely by subscription. It additionally had an early partnership with Hyundai, however that has since dissolved. It is proven a compact pickup truck based mostly on the identical structure because the vans, which appeared to tack again towards private customers.
The quirky electrical vans are because of be made with Tesla-style 2170 cylindrical cells equipped by Panasonic, with a structural battery and in-house-developed elements. With some agency orders on the books, maybe these vans will lastly see manufacturing and be sure that its engineering work would not go to waste.
