With only a 150 mile range, these Arrival EV delivery trucks offer UPS (and potentially other delivery services in the future), the ability to have a fleet of trucks that require little maintenance and a low cost to charge, saving UPS a lot of money in the long term over it’s current ICE aging fleet.
UPS currently has about 123,000 delivery trucks, so this order represents about 8%, which will give UPS enough data to determine how to proceed in the future.
We do believe that Arrival will need to have larger battery packs to be able to provide longer ranges as an estimated 150 mile range is likely to be closed to 120-130 in the real world. Nonetheless, it’s a great start.
