WOW! We have photos of a new Walmart branded Canoo Electric Delivery Van and it's amazing! Without knowing any of the technical specs, it appears to solve every major complaint lodged against Canoo's smaller LDVs and why some critics thought they couldn't possibly succeed for high volume last mile delivery. These have mainly been about not having a sliding access door for the driver, no roll up door in the back and no standing room.
As long as the range doesn't take too big of a hit, this variant along with the more nimble LDV 130 and 190 have to check all the boxes for every fleet manager....everywhere!
Yesterday Canoo held their Q2 Earning Release presentation and CEO Tony Aquila had the following remarks concerning their work on customer configurations and refinements being made:
"Now let me give you a preview of what to expect from us in the coming quarters. Finalizing customer configurations, we have been focused on locking down specifications with our large fleet customers, which will inform our production and allocations in ‘25 and visibility into ’26. We continue refining our customer acquisition partnership fulfillment and post delivery services model, which includes customer deployment and testing of vehicles configurated for specific use cases and commercial terms and conditions expected by our clients.
Walmart is an example. It was July of 2022 when we announced Walmart's order. We partnered with the Walmart team and completed 2 years of extensive testing and refining of specifications and use cases for our customers' workflow. And there are other examples of large customers in varying phases of how we work hand-in-hand to finalize specs and schedule."
Clearly this new LDV variant is a testament to the hard work of the Canoo engineers and giving their clients exactly what they need to fit most possible use cases while maintaining a small footprint. Truly engineering the impossible!
Now Canoo just has to start really manufacturing, that should be easy, right?