Carnage grows among transportation startups

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In the world of electric vehicle and autonomous trucking startups, the picture of winners and losers...

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ELMS passes first test, delivers first EV cargo van ahead of schedule

ELMS delivers first electric cargo van

The first step in the mission to launch a Class 1 electric delivery van has been reached with Electric Last Mile Solutions announcing on Wednesday that it has delivered the first Urban Delivery van from its Indiana assembly facility.

The vehicle was handed over to Randy Marion Automotive Group, a large nationwide commercial dealership group. Just last week, the dealer announced an order for 1,000 of the EVs.

“There is no doubt that the commercial last-mile delivery market is demanding electric...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/elms-passes-first-test-delivers-first-ev-cargo-van-ahead-of-schedule

Tiny electric delivery vans occupy former home of hulking Hummer H2

The tale of Electric Last Mile Systems (ELMS) brims with irony. 

The startup’s Class 1 battery-powered delivery vans will be assembled in the plant where the hulking Hummer H2 SUV came off the line from 2003 to 2009.

Jim Taylor, the same executive who ran Hummer at General Motors (NYSE: GM), led talks to sell the brand to Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery as GM teetered on the edge of an eventual bankruptcy reorganization in 2009. The deal fell apart in February 2010 and GM mothballed...

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