A Walmart-branded BrightDrop 400 electric van. | Image: GM
GM moved its electric van company BrightDrop into Chevy in August to save some money, and today, the newly branded version of the vehicle is reaching one of BrightDrop’s earliest customers: Walmart.
After piloting BrightDrop 400 vehicles for customer deliveries, Walmart is officially adding them into its fleets. The company says its in-home delivery program is expanding to reach 62 million households nationwide and will roll out Chevy BrightDrops in Austin, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, northwest Arkansas, Orlando, and the San Francisco Bay area by the end of the year.
Walmart had struck a deal with BrightDrop in 2022 to reserve 5,000 vans that included the larger 600 models (the number indicating the approximate square footage of cargo…