Walmart is adding Chevrolet BrightDrop 400 electric vans to its U.S. home delivery fleet.
The vans will be deployed in Austin, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, northwest Arkansas, Orlando, and the San Francisco Bay Area before the end of the year, General Motors said in a press release. They'll be used for Walmart's InHome service, which provides delivery of groceries from stores to nearby customer homes.
Chevrolet BrightDrop 400 electric van in Walmart livery
GM and Walmart initially ran a pilot program with the vans, which got positive reviews from employees for their driver aids, automated features like automatic-closing doors, and ease of ingress and egress, the release said.
The 400 is the shorter-wheelbase option, with a long-wheelbase BrightDrop 600 van also available. GM estimates 159 miles of range with the standard battery pack and 272 miles with a larger optional pack. The vans use the same component set, branded as Ultium until recently, as GM's current generation of electric passenger vehicles.
2025 Chevrolet BrightDrop 600
GM launched BrightDrop as a separate brand in January 2021, but folded it into Chevrolet in August of this year. Production is still assigned to GM's CAMI Assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada, which has been building BrightDrop vans since late 2021. Earlier customers included FedEx and the Ryder rental fleet.
Walmart has long shown interest in electric vehicles. In 2022, the retail chain placed a larger order with Canoo for 4,500 electric vans—effectively breathing new life into the struggling startup, for a short period of time, at least. Some Walmart stores also host Electrify America charging stations, and the company announced its own EV charging network in 2023.
