Your Next Doctor’s Appointment Could Be In The Back Of This EV

Detroit’s Grounded burst onto the country successful 2023 with an electrical RV based connected the BrightDrop Zevo 600. Now, the institution is expanding their lineup by introducing the C1 astatine Climate Week NYC.

Designed for authorities and healthcare fleets, the C1 is based connected Harbinger’s commercial-grade electrical motortruck level and disposable successful 3 antithetic configurations. In bid to entreaty to police departments, there’s a mobile bid halfway that provides “secure communications, reliable power, and the mobility to coordinate responses during terrible weather, ample events, oregon multi-agency emergencies.”

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The institution didn’t connection overmuch information, but images amusement the conveyance has a ample unfastened country with desks and an assortment of displays. We tin besides spot a bathroom, a flexible seating area, and 2 enclosed spaces.

The C1 tin besides beryllium transformed into a mobile session to alteration “municipalities and nonprofits to present mammograms, vaccinations, screenings, and different preventative services.” In this configuration, we tin spot a reception country and a bathroom. There’s besides an introspection country with a table and aesculapian equipment.

The 3rd and last configuration is aimed astatine catastrophe effect and the institution said it “provides resilience and adaptability with extended range, off-grid power, and modular interiors that tin enactment structure coordination, proviso distribution, and exigency alleviation efforts.”

While specifics are fewer and acold between, the C1 volition beryllium highly customizable arsenic the institution mentioned aggregate wheelbases arsenic good arsenic 3 levels of upfit. The astir basal is known arsenic Core, which features a streamlined and cost-effective interior. The Advanced and Pro setups adhd much bells and whistles, including precocious communications instrumentality and accrued range.

Speaking of which, the C1 volition beryllium offered with electrical and plug-in hybrid powertrains. The erstwhile tin beryllium augmented by a gas-powered scope extender arsenic good arsenic a roof-mounted star sheet and a dedicated ‘house battery.’

The institution didn’t notation powertrain details, but Harbinger uses an electrical centrifugal that develops 440 hp (330 kW) and 1,140 lb-ft (1,550 Nm) of torque. They besides connection a scalable artillery pack, which comes successful 35 kWh sections that tin beryllium accrued to conscionable the task astatine hand.

As for the plug-in hybrid variant, it presumably echoes the Hybrid RV that was created by THOR Industries and Harbinger. It has an wide scope of 500 miles (805 km) arsenic good arsenic an electric-only scope of 150 miles (241 km).

There are much questions than answers astatine this point, but Grounded is presently accepting orders. Deliveries are expected to statesman successful the 2nd 4th of 2026 and pricing volition “vary depending connected configuration and upfit.”