FedEx Corp. is planning to make its whole fleet of supply vans totally electrical by 2040, the company said Wednesday.
The transfer is a part of an effort to change into carbon impartial that very same yr, with the corporate planning to plow $2 billion into the international effort.
The Memphis, Tenn.-based firm will take a phased strategy to electrifying its fleet. By 2025, 50 p.c of its purchases of recent supply autos will likely be electrical, rising to one hundred pc of all purchases by 2030.
FedEx has greater than 200,000 autos in its fleet.
In January, the corporate announced plans to purchase 500 electrical vans from Normal Motors’ new industrial enterprise, BrightDrop.
Jeremy Carroll of Automotive Information contributed to this report.