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Our story starts with a passion project at RWTH University in Aachen, Germany, where a group of graduate students came together  to develop the ergonomically perfect, zero-emission delivery vehicle. With input from dozens of real drivers and delivery companies, they engineered the first all-electric commercial vehicle of it's kind--the StreetScooter. The innovative project was so successful, against all odds, it was purchased by German postal carrier Deutsche Post DHL in 2014. DPDHL manufactured and deployed their own fleet of over 20,000 StreetScooter vehicles, which have since completed more than 400 million kilometers of deliveries.

Fast forward to 2020, when in the midst of a global pandemic, e-commerce skyrocketed. A group of seasoned automotive executives and tech leaders, who would later become B–ON, set out to accelerate the global shift to electric vehicles and reform the broken systems behind last-mile delivery for good. In January of 2022, they purchased the production rights and IP for StreetScooter vehicles from DPDHL. In May of that year, B–ON officially launched a suite of complementary products and services designed to make it easier than ever for fleet owners to make the change...and the rest is history.