Canoo & U.S. Division of Protection Develop Partnership

Canoo popped onto the scene with its straightforward, clear, all-purpose car design in early 2019. We’ve had loads of tales in regards to the EV startup since then, nevertheless it hasn’t precisely produced a mass-market EV but. The excellent news is that it’s alive, rising, and getting new contracts. — together with from the U.S. Division of Protection.

Rewinding a bit, the U.S. Division of Protection’s Protection Innovation Unit (DIU) had already established a partnership with Canoo. The information in latest days is that it’s increasing that partnership. Right here’s the information of what this implies in Canoo’s personal phrases: “The corporate says it has leveraged it superior industrial battery and integration experience to ship to the Division of Protection companions a technologically superior battery pack that may be scaled to be used on operational navy platforms and can set the stage for standardization of vitality dense lithium batteries for the U.S. Navy.  This follows DIU’s testing and evaluation of Canoo’s proprietary expertise since February 2023.”

As if we didn’t have sufficient acronyms on this story, they be aware that this furthers the objectives of DIU’s Jumpstart for Superior Battery Standardization (JABS) program. “JABS accelerates ‘form-fit-function battery requirements for protection’ by utilizing confirmed and guarded industrial EV battery applied sciences for navy use.” Properly, one factor we all know is that it’s very arduous to get navy contracts, however when you do, you might be set for all times. So, no matter else occurs with Canoo, one has to assume this can be a important step ahead for the corporate and it has a steady footing to now develop from. Everybody at Canoo have to be leaping for pleasure.

“We’re honored to deepen our collaboration with the Division of Protection,” says Tony Aquila. Chairman and CEO, Canoo.  “We’re impressed by their management and concentrate on encouraging American innovation.  A core worth to our re-founding is to invent and leverage our expertise to contribute to our nation’s management in protection expertise.  We’re guided by our dedication to repeatedly innovating our patented applied sciences to higher equip our companions to win whether or not it’s in industrial or client markets, or in aiding our nation’s protection.”

As chances are you’ll recall from one of many many articles we (and others) have written about Canoo, it makes use of a modular battery system, which suggests it may be utilized simply to completely different car our bodies and wishes. This appears to have been a promoting level for Canoo in touchdown this expanded contract with the DOD.

After all, stepping again a bit, electrical autos are useful for eliminating fossil vitality dependence and the handicaps that include that. “Canoo’s settlement with DIU can be instrumental in reaching strategic vitality resilience,” the corporate says. “The DIU partnership growth additional validates Canoo’s technological and operational reliability as a choose companion for a few of the U.S. authorities’s most demanding initiatives, comparable to:  Delivering the Gentle Tactical Automobile (LTV) to the U.S. Military and supplying Crew Transportation Autos (CTVs) to the Nationwide Aeronautics and House Administration (NASA) for the Artemis lunar touchdown missions.”

Different advantages of this expanded partnership are that it’s a job creator in Cherokee Nation and manufacturing is generally powered by clear, zero-emission, renewable vitality. “Canoo has a battery module manufacturing facility at MidAmerica Industrial Park in Pryor, Oklahoma, inside the Cherokee Nation.  In section one, the brand new facility will create over 200 superior manufacturing jobs.  As well as, Canoo would be the first expertise firm to provide battery modules and packs primarily utilizing hydro and wind energy sources from the Grand River Dam Authority based mostly in Oklahoma, Aquila notes.”

Congratulations to Canoo for successful the expanded contract, and kudos to the DOD for shifting increasingly into EVs. Let’s see how huge this partnership can get.

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