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

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.


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

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

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

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.

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.












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.