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Vehicles from Rick Hendrick City Chevrolet in Charlotte, N.C., help Atrium Health deliver to patients.

Vehicles from Rick Hendrick City Chevrolet in Charlotte, N.C., help Atrium Health deliver to patients. 

Mercedes-Benz Citaro bus

In just 15 days, a Daimler team converted this Mercedes-Benz Citaro bus into a critical-care ambulance to transport COVID-19 patients. It’s on loan to the German Red Cross. 

Starship delivery robot

Groceries are placed in a Starship delivery robot in Milton Keynes, England. National Health Service employees got free deliveries.

Cruise cars

Cruise has used its self-driving cars to make more than 50,000 grocery and meal deliveries from San Francisco food banks.

Ford testing

Ford equipped four Transit vans as mobile COVID-19 screening units in a program with Wayne State University, the WSU Physician Group and ACCESS.

Beep shuttle

In Jacksonville, Fla., a fully autonomous Beep shuttle is used to transport COVID-19 tests between a drive-through testing site and a nearby Mayo Clinic laboratory.  

Staff and volunteers at Nashville’s Community Resource Center go through essential supplies for delivery to families and non-profits affected by COVID-19 and the Middle Tennessee tornado outbreak. Mitsubishi Motors North America Inc., through its “Small Batch-Big Impact” initiative, provided the CRC with a 2020 Outlander plug-in hybrid to help in the effort.

Staff and volunteers at Nashville’s Community Resource Center go through essential supplies for delivery to families and non-profits affected by COVID-19 and the Middle Tennessee tornado outbreak. Mitsubishi Motors North America Inc., through its “Small Batch-Big Impact” initiative, provided the CRC with a 2020 Outlander plug-in hybrid to help in the effort.

Nice Ride, a Lyft-affiliated bike-share program in Minneapolis, offered free 30-day memberships to critical workers, such as health-care and transit employees and first responders.

Nice Ride, a Lyft-affiliated bike-share program in Minneapolis, offered free 30-day memberships to critical workers, such as health-care and transit employees and first responders.

With the coronavirus causing a surge in demand for online orders, Yamibuy, a Los Angeles-based e-commerce platform specializing in Asian foods and other products, partnered with autonomous vehicle company Pony.ai on contactless deliveries.

A Toyota Hiace commercial van modified to transport seriously ill COVID-19 patients. The automaker provided this vehicle to Showa University Hospital in Tokyo. It was designed as an "airborne droplet circulation control vehicle."

In Indonesia, the Toyota Mobility Foundation is providing on-demand shuttles for six medical institutions to help the staff carry test specimens to a COVID-19 test laboratory.

Vehicles from Rick Hendrick City Chevrolet in Charlotte, N.C., help Atrium Health deliver to patients.
Mercedes-Benz Citaro bus
Starship delivery robot
Cruise cars
Ford testing
Beep shuttle
Staff and volunteers at Nashville’s Community Resource Center go through essential supplies for delivery to families and non-profits affected by COVID-19 and the Middle Tennessee tornado outbreak. Mitsubishi Motors North America Inc., through its “Small Batch-Big Impact” initiative, provided the CRC with a 2020 Outlander plug-in hybrid to help in the effort.
Nice Ride, a Lyft-affiliated bike-share program in Minneapolis, offered free 30-day memberships to critical workers, such as health-care and transit employees and first responders.

A Call To Action: From tiny autonomous robots in the United Kingdom to a city bus in Germany and vans in metro Detroit, vehicles are playing a major role in the coronavirus fight.