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The US Army has spent years tip-toeing cautiously around the edges of the vehicle electrification field, with battery safety in active war zones among other structural concerns. Now that EVs are on a collision course with driverless, and autonomous robotics, the battery safety factor has faded to the background and the Army is dipping another toe in the water, at least as far as hybrid-electric vehicles go.
US Army Finally Gets Real On EVs
This will be familiar ground to those of you following Ukraine’s life-or-deat transition into uncrewed vehicles and weaponry, enabling sparse contingents of frontline fighters to hold off a force that is far greater in number, but ill-quipped to fight a 21st century war.
Last week, the California-based EV startup Harbinger Motors announced that the US Army has issued an 18-month contract for the delivery of uncrewed, hybrid-electric resupply vehicles under a partnership with the US branch of the global defense supplier Rheinmetall.
