While global demand for all-electric vehicles among retail consumers may be lagging behind expected levels of growth, that certainly isn’t the case with the commercial side of the business. In fact, Ford CEO Jim Farley previously admitted that commercial demand for the company’s EVs was “actually going much better than we thought,” adding that the automaker “can’t make enough E-Transits or Pro versions of Lightning” to satisfy demand. Now, it continues to rack up Ford E-Transit orders from a familiar source.
Great meeting DHL CEO Tobias Meyer at @DHLGlobal HQ and taking a drive in a DHL E-Transit. His vision is to make 60% of their fleet all-electric by 2030! @FordPro is proud to be part of the solution, starting with delivery of 2,400 #ETransit and E-Transit Customs for Europe by… pic.twitter.com/Um0GnEWFpD
— Jim Farley (@jimfarley98) August 26, 2024
That source is the logistics company DHL, according to Farley, as it just took delivery of 2,400 Ford E-Transit and E-Transit Custom vans in Europe, with plans to add many more soon. In fact, DHL Global CEO Tobias Meyer wants to electrify 60 percent of the company’s fleet by 2030, meaning that it’s likely to need many more EV vans in the coming years to reach that target.
Ford Pro originally inked a deal with DHL that resulted in the purchase of 45 Ford E-Transit vans for the company’s Palo Alto, California-based operations back in December 2022, right around the same time it also came to an agreement with Deutsche Post DHL Group for the delivery of 2,000 more E-Transit vans. Then, in September 2023, DHL Express Ireland announced that it had purchased 44 Ford E-Transit vans to replace some of its old diesel models, too.
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Oh good, the only delivery service worse than USPS is gonna have EVs to not actually deliver things when they say they will.
Honestly who even uses DHL, and why?
It looks like DHL is satisfied with he product.
Every time a company sends me something via DHL, I can forget about it for two weeks while they pass it around the country before finally handing it off to the post office.
I imagine evs will only make this worse, as they do everything else.