{"id":181183,"date":"2024-01-23T10:25:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T16:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/canoo-gets-real-as-deliveries-of-its-electric-commercial-van-begin"},"modified":"2024-01-23T10:25:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T16:25:31","slug":"canoo-gets-real-as-deliveries-of-its-electric-commercial-van-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/canoo-gets-real-as-deliveries-of-its-electric-commercial-van-begin","title":{"rendered":"Canoo gets real as deliveries of its electric commercial van begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/canoo-gets-real-as-deliveries-of-its-electric-commercial-van-begin2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Walmart-backed EV startup Canoo has announced that deliveries of its all-electric commercial van have officially begun \u2013 and the first production Canoo LDV 130 vans are already hard at work.<\/p>\n<p>The first batch of Canoo\u2019s electric vans are reportedly in service now at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.canoo.com\/press-release\/canoo-delivered-electric-vehicles-to-kingbee\">Kingbee<\/a>, a national work-ready van rental provider. The company says the delivery of vans to Kingbee is consistent with its previously announced \u201cphased ramp-up manufacturing approach,\u201d and asserts that additional customer deliveries will continue throughout 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Canoo had previously delivered vehicles to <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2022\/04\/13\/nasa-contracts-canoo-to-build-evs-that-will-transport-astronauts-to-launchpad-for-artemis-missions\/\">NASA<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2023\/11\/10\/check-out-canoos-rugged-new-american-bulldog-electric-pickup\/\">US military<\/a>, and the State of Oklahoma (its home state) for testing. The vans delivered to Kingbee, however, seem to be the first that will be accessible to \u201cthe public.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart-backed EV startup Canoo has announced that deliveries of its all-electric commercial van have officially begun \u2013 and the first production Canoo LDV 130 vans are already hard at work. The first batch of Canoo\u2019s electric vans are reportedly in service now at Kingbee, a national work-ready van rental provider. The company says the delivery [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}