Alphabet Inc.’s Wing subsidiary is about to reach a milestone in the fledgling drone-delivery business: Any day now it will deliver its 100,000th package to a customer.
At its busiest delivery hub, in Logan City, Australia, the company earlier this month set a new internal record of 4,500 deliveries in one week. The system will one day be a far more efficient mode of transporting goods to people’s homes than what exists today, according to a top executive.
“We’re extremely bullish on our ability to offer this service at a lower cost than ground delivery very profitably over time,” Jonathan Bass, Wing LLC’s head of marketing and communications told Bloomberg News. “You can begin to look at this and extrapolate to what drone delivery will look like in urban and suburban environments around the world.”
Even as government regulators in the U.S. and elsewhere hash out technical requirements for this new class of flying machines, Wing is expanding rapidly. In addition to existing test sites in Australia, Virginia and Helsinki, it has plans for deliveries at an undisclosed new location in the U.S., according to an emailed statement.
Continue reading: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-25/alphabet-s-wing-touts-milestone-in-its-growing-drone-deliveries
At its busiest delivery hub, in Logan City, Australia, the company earlier this month set a new internal record of 4,500 deliveries in one week. The system will one day be a far more efficient mode of transporting goods to people’s homes than what exists today, according to a top executive.
“We’re extremely bullish on our ability to offer this service at a lower cost than ground delivery very profitably over time,” Jonathan Bass, Wing LLC’s head of marketing and communications told Bloomberg News. “You can begin to look at this and extrapolate to what drone delivery will look like in urban and suburban environments around the world.”
Even as government regulators in the U.S. and elsewhere hash out technical requirements for this new class of flying machines, Wing is expanding rapidly. In addition to existing test sites in Australia, Virginia and Helsinki, it has plans for deliveries at an undisclosed new location in the U.S., according to an emailed statement.
Continue reading: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-25/alphabet-s-wing-touts-milestone-in-its-growing-drone-deliveries
