Shares of EV maker Canoo are surging after Walmart agrees to buy 4,500 electric delivery vans

Shares of EV maker Canoo are surging after Walmart agrees to buy 4,500 electric delivery vans


Walmart to Purchase 4,500 Canoo Electric Delivery Vehicles to be Used for Last Mile Deliveries in Support of Its Growing eCommerce Business

Courtesy: Canoo | Walmart

Electric vehicle startup Canoo said Tuesday Walmart has agreed to buy at least 4,500 of its upcoming electric delivery vans, in a significant win for the embattled vehicle maker.

Shares of Canoo were up more than 70% in early trading after the news was announced.

Walmart has signed a “definitive agreement” to purchase at least 4,500, and possibly as many as 10,000, of its all-electric Lifestyle Delivery Vehicles, a small electric van designed for local delivery service, Canoo said.

Walmart is leaning on its thousands of stores to deliver online purchases quickly and at a lower costs — and compete with Amazon, an online rival known for its speed. It has rolled out and expanded e-commerce services, including InHome, which delivers groceries directly to customers’ fridges and Express Delivery, which drops purchases at shoppers’ doors in two hours or less. Unlimited home delivery of groceries is also a key perk of Walmart+, an annual membership service that the big-box retailer wants to grow.

But to expand those services, it needs more delivery vans. InHome is powered by an all-electric fleet.

Canoo marks the third major deal signed by Walmart for electric vans. Early this year, Walmart reserved 5,000 electric vans from General Motors subsidiary, BrightDrop. It also bought 1,100 electric vans from Ford E-Transit, some of which it is already driving.

The big-box retailer plans to use electric vans from all three companies for InHome and other local deliveries. It plans to increase the availability of InHome from 6 million to 30 million households by the end of this year, as it adds major metros like Los Angeles and Chicago.

The shift also comes at a time when fuel is weighing on Walmart’s profitability and making online deliveries more expensive. Walmart said last week in a memo that it would charge some suppliers new fees to transport goods to its warehouses and stores.

Canoo’s vans will be built at its Oklahoma factory and are expected to begin going into service next year. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Canoo is one of several U.S.-based electric vehicle startups to have gone public via mergers with special-purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs. The company’s shares briefly surged to over $20 after its stock-market debut in late 2020, but have slid since co-founder and CEO Ulrich Kranz departed last year.

As of Tuesday morning the stock was trading closer to $4 per share.

Correction: This story has been updated to reflect that the vans will be built in Canoo’s factory in Oklahoma.

Reuters contributed to this report.



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