FedEx Receives First Five of Its 500 Electric-Van Order From BrightDrop

FedEx Corp. is inching toward its goal of decarbonizing the last mile of the delivery process.

On Friday, the logistics giant said it had received the first five all-electric vans from General Motors Co. -owned BrightDrop in Los Angeles. FedEx became BrightDrop’s first big customer in January, ordering 500 of BrightDrop’s EV600 commercial vans.