Canoo on Thursday introduced that it’ll promote six electrical supply vans to the U.S. Postal Service.

Due for supply to the Postal Service later this quarter, the vans will probably be righthand-drive variations of the Canoo LDV 190 mannequin, in accordance with a press launch from the startup. The LDV 190 has a 79-kwh battery pack affording an estimated 200 miles of vary. It additionally has 200 hp, 172 cubic ft of cargo area, and a 1,624-pound payload capability, in accordance with Canoo’s web site.

Canoo structural battery pack

The Postal Service is enterprise a $40 billion effort to affect its fleet. It plans to purchase 21,000 EVs primarily based on present designs—together with 9,250 Ford E-Transit vans—plus a minimum of 45,000 electrical variations of its custom-designed Subsequent Technology Supply Autos (NGDV).

The NGDV, supposed as a substitute for the aptly named Grumman Lengthy Life Car (LLV) mail vans which have been in service for many years, may be constructed with internal-combustion powertrains as properly. The Postal Service has promised to purchase extra electrical variations in response to widespread criticism of an preliminary plan to make only 10% of the vehicles electric, however the first EVs aren’t anticipated to reach till 2028.

Canoo LDV 130 van in Kingbee livery

The Postal Service is not the primary authorities entity Canoo has pitched its automobiles to. The startup delivered a prototype pickup truck to the U.S. Military for analysis in 2022, and built three vans for NASA to move astronauts to launch pads on the Kennedy House Middle.

Within the non-public sector, Canoo lately introduced that it had delivered the primary automobiles in a 9,300-unit order to van rental agency Kingbee. In 2022, Walmart introduced plans to buy thousands of Canoo electric vans. Manufacturing takes place in Oklahoma.