{"id":1471,"date":"2020-02-01T15:54:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T15:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2020-02-01T15:55:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T15:55:10","slug":"ups-orders-10000-electric-delivery-vans-and-announces-waymo-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/ups-orders-10000-electric-delivery-vans-and-announces-waymo-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"UPS Orders 10,000 Electric Delivery Vans and Announces Waymo Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Waymo_self-driving_car_stopped_at_intersection.gk_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Waymo_self-driving_car_stopped_at_intersection.gk_.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Waymo_self-driving_car_stopped_at_intersection.gk_-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Waymo_self-driving_car_stopped_at_intersection.gk_-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>UPS buying 10,000 electric delivery vans from startup Arrival and will test Waymo self-driving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/\">vehicles<\/a> next month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>United Parcel Service Inc is expanding its efforts to cut emissions and delivery costs. In order to do that, they announced Wednesday two separate deals. UPS is investing\u00a0in\u00a0electric\u00a0vehicle\u00a0company Arrival and has signed an agreement to purchase 10,000 electric\u00a0delivery trucks from UK-based Arrival Ltd and test Waymo self-driving vehicles to carry packages. UPS will partner with\u00a0Waymo\u00a0on an autonomous vehicle package pickup in Phoenix, Arizona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>UPS has tested a prototype of an earlier Arrival EV and will roll out more in cities such as London, where the company has\u00a0installed a new charging infrastructure to handle a growing fleet of electric vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The partnership between UPS\nand Arrival includes a minority investment from the world\u2019s biggest package\ndelivery firm and appears four months after customer-turned-rival Amazon.com\nInc, the world\u2019s largest online retailer, ordered 100,000 electric vans from Michigan\nstartup, Rivian, a partially funded by Amazon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPS and Arrival are also planning to co-develop electric vehicles with\nAdvanced&nbsp;Driver-Assistance Systems technology designed \u201cto increase safety\nand operating efficiencies\u201d which is expected to be tested later this year, according\nto a recent release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPS also officially\nannounced that next month they will start a six-month test run with Waymo. UPS\nwill pay the self-driving unit of Google parent Alphabet Inc to use autonomous\nminivans, dubbed Chrysler Pacifica, to transport packages from Phoenix UPS\nstores to a nearby sorting center several times a day,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Online\nshopping is expected to grow by the end of the decade and experts say emissions\nfrom delivery trucks would&nbsp;grow by nearly a third. However, delivery EVs are\nat a tipping point: The technology is cheap enough that electric trucks can seriously\ncompete with gas and diesel trucks and vans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two companies will\nalso be co-developing electric vehicles with Advanced&nbsp;Driver-Assistance\nSystems (ADAS)&nbsp;technology \u201cdesigned to increase safety and operating\nefficiencies\u201d &#8212; which is expected to be tested later this year, the release\nsaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/money\/companies\/update-1-ups-inks-electric-van-deal-with-arrival-to-test-waymo-automation\/ar-BBZsADw\">MSN<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPS buying 10,000 electric delivery vans from startup Arrival and will test Waymo self-driving vehicles next month. United Parcel Service Inc is expanding its efforts to cut emissions and delivery costs. In order to do that, they announced Wednesday two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/ups-orders-10000-electric-delivery-vans-and-announces-waymo-partnership\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}