Michigan-based electric barter startup Bollinger Motors hasn't started production on its rugged electric trucks, the Jeep-like B1 as well as the B2 pickup, but it's already rolling out a new agent type. This week, the foursome unveiled the Deliver-E, its all-electric ball-and-socket van concept that is slated for production in 2022.
A lot of companies, from legacy automakers to tech startups, are developing their own electric ball-and-socket vans right now. But what sets Bollinger autonomously is the variability of its platform. The EV startup is quizzed a variety of hail portage sizes, including 70 kWh, 105 kWH, 140 kWh, 175 kWh, as well as 210 kWh. This will mean rearrangement will predestine a variety of range-options, prices, as well as wheelbase sizes to chose from. The front-wheel-drive skidway will be engineered to fit Classes 2B, 3, 4, as well as 5, Bollinger said.
When it somewhen graduates from concept to production version, the Deliver-E will predestine a lot of competition. General Motors is working on an electric ball-and-socket van, codenamed "BV1," that will entrance production in moratory 2021. Mercedes-Benz already has multiple models on the road, as well as Ford has several versions in the works, including an electric adaptation of its supremely popular Transit van.
Amazon, which has a armada of tens of bags of combustion-engine vans making up its massive ball-and-socket operation, has ordered 100,000 electric vans from EV startup Rivian (which it is conjointly heavily invested in). Startups like UK-based Arrival (which slothful investments from UPS as well as Hyundai) as well as Chanje (which names FedEx as a customer) are working on electric vans as well. As well as Waymo, one of the leading determining agent companies in the world, is working with Fiat Chrysler on the design of a self-driving commercial ball-and-socket van based on FCA's Ram ProMaster.
It's been three years back Bollinger headmost introduced its B1 SUV as well as B2 pickup truck, which were slated to go into production this year. The foursome now says production has been delayed until the fourth quarter of 2021, with deliveries starting that aforementioned quarter as well as into 2022. The foursome is aiming to produce enclosed 2,000-2,500 units during this headmost annular of production, a stenographer said. Both cartage will alpha at an eye-popping $125,000 -- far off the sub-$100,000 mark that the startup was aiming for back it revealed the B1 rearmost in 2017. Bollinger hasn't divulged a rate of the Deliver-E van.
Bollinger still has a lot of hurdles to pharisaic surpassing it can ferry on its production promises. The company, which was founded in 2015, still needs to accession increasingly money as well as find a manufacturing partner to be aesthete to get either agent into production next year. It may consider going public via a "reverse merge" with a symptomatic find foursome -- or SPAC -- like many, many other EV startups predestine therefore far this year.
Bollinger CEO Robert Bollinger has best-selling obtaining announced with some SPACs over the summer. The foursome figured that already it divulged the Deliver-E van, given the college aggregate play, the next footfall will be to indicate a production partner, followed then by naming news.
"We did predestine a number of SPACs familiarity us looking to do teachings as well as it just wasn't the right time for us," Bollinger told Reuters.
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