The UPS truck making its annual holiday runs has probably looked the same as long as you can remember: gold and brown box, snub “bubble-front” nose, acrid plume of exhaust. But from FedEx to Purolator, the cargo-van industry is getting an electric facelift—and automaking giant General Motors is betting on Ingersoll, Ont., to be the hub.
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