The US automotive industry giant has decided to create BrightDrop, a new reality that will allow the giant to cover the last mile of delivery in terms of sustainable mobility.

General Motors is also revolutionizing itself and is increasingly embracing the parenthesis of sustainable mobility . We have seen in America how Amazon has decided to make a mega commission of electric vehicles to Rivian to make deliveries in total respect for the environment. In order not to miss any possible customer, General Motors has therefore decided to launch BrightDrop, a new business that will allow a total electrification of the supply of goods and services.

We are not just talking about a new company but rather an ecosystem of electrical products, software and services from the first mile to the last. In this way, delivery and logistics companies will benefit from a total knowledge of the automotive world as only General Motors in the USA can be. In fact, all the solutions designed by GM aim to help companies reduce costs, maximize productivity and improve the safety of employees during transport.

In fact, Automotive companies are not simply moving towards a concept of sustainable mobility, aimed at the production and construction of electric vehicles, but rather towards an ecosystem of sustainable mobility.

We are therefore talking about a business-to-business world, which will seek to expand General Motors' turnover even further. According to the American company, within 4 years, this last mile delivery sector will be able to develop a turnover of 850 billion dollars.

According to the latest forecasts of the international forum on the economy, the demand for last-mile deliveries, i.e. urban ones linked for example to e-commerce, will increase by almost 80% within 10 years. This will lead to an increase of approximately 36% of delivery vehicles in the world's top 100 cities. As a direct consequence, therefore, it is necessary to completely redesign mobility in an eco-sustainable key in order not to have an excessive impact on the climate of the cities.

Returning to our focus, we therefore have different services and different means that will be developed and created by GM. Let's start for example with EP1 , an electric pallet that will allow packages to be moved in short distances, from the delivery vehicle to the customer's front door.

As a second focus of this strategy we have the EV600 vehicle, that is a light commercial vehicle built specifically for the delivery of packages and services over long distances, or about 250 miles, an acceptable and encouraging figure for future deliveries.

The software is obviously developed on an integrated platform based on the cloud, which allows quick and immediate access to a series of functions, by all parties involved in the logistics company. For example, we talk about real-time location, battery management, charging time, driver safety coaching and accident recording, as well as of course remote diagnostics and safety alerts on predictive maintenance and over-the-air updates.

As a first pilot project, General Motors will use Fedex Express to develop a form of study of areas for improvement. In the first trance of the pilot study, there was an increase in parcel handling efficiently of about 25% more per day.

We will therefore see what the future holds in terms of sustainable mobility linked to the delivery of products and vehicles within cities.

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