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Xos builds medium-duty electric trucks for delivery fleets whose vehicles make local rounds and return to base. Fleet operators buy its vehicles with bodies and battery range suited to their routes. Customers include UPS, FedEx and smaller fleets, including independent operators delivering for large companies. Stepvans and related vehicle incentives account for most revenue; one customer supplies more than half of total revenue, but Xos does not identify that customer in its concentration disclosure.
Xos also sells equipment that supplies power and charges vehicles. Its movable Xos Hub combines energy storage and rapid charging, with Caltrans and Waymo among its largest Hub customers. Through Powered by Xos, it sells electric powertrains and components to other vehicle manufacturers, including Blue Bird. Powertrains and Hubs provide a smaller revenue stream than stepvans and vehicle incentives.
Vehicle sales depend on fleets adopting electric trucks, turning trial deployments into larger orders and having charging available at their depots. Production relies on outside component suppliers, with Gotion and CATL supplying its batteries. Xos sells vehicles directly and through dealers, but state dealer-licensing laws restrict direct manufacturer sales in some markets.
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Beyond this list, watch Gotion and CATL for Xos’s battery supply and Harbinger for direct competition in electric commercial vehicles.
Workhorse Group, Inc competes with Xos for last-mile fleets buying Class 5/6 electric step vans and chassis without bodies. Its W56 deliveries and repeat fleet purchases are worth watching for demand in this shared market.
Rivian Automotive competes with Xos for commercial fleets’ electric delivery-vehicle purchases. Watch its Electric Delivery Van and Rivian Commercial Van business rather than its consumer pickups and SUVs for the overlap with Xos.
UPS turns its parcel-delivery fleet purchases into vehicle sales for Xos: it received more than 190 Xos vehicles in 2025. Further purchases of Xos electric delivery vehicles are the concrete news to watch from this package-delivery company.
FedEx is an important buyer of Xos vehicles for its parcel-delivery business, making its fleet purchases relevant to Xos’s vehicle sales. Watch purchases of Xos delivery vehicles, rather than treating FedEx’s worldwide package and freight results as a direct measure of Xos demand.
Blue Bird Corporation buys the systems that power several electric school-bus configurations from Xos, supporting its Powered by Xos business rather than finished-vehicle sales. The school-bus maker ordered more than 100 powertrain units from the second quarter of 2025 through the first quarter of 2026; watch further orders for this growing customer relationship.
Xos depends on Dana for key axle components in its commercial vehicles; Dana sells vehicle parts to manufacturers. Watch news about axle-component supply to Xos, rather than Dana’s broader sales across vehicle makers.
PACCAR competes with Xos when commercial fleets choose medium-duty trucks. Its truck business is the relevant comparison for fleet purchasing decisions, rather than its aftermarket parts or financing businesses.
Azio AI Holdings, Inc. competes for commercial fleet customers that also buy Xos delivery vehicles, selling electric logistics vans and urban trucks. Watch those vehicle sales, rather than its separate drone, medical-supply or computing-infrastructure activities.
EIA Crude Oil Stocks Change (Oct/16)
For Xos, which sells electric stepvans and powertrains to fleets, US crude oil and gasoline stocks signal fuel-price pressure that can change customers’ cost comparison with combustion vehicles and their willingness to buy.
Read the stock change through fuel prices and fleet economics: falling stocks can lift fuel prices and strengthen the cost case for Xos electric vehicles, while rising stocks can ease fuel prices and weaken that case; either may influence orders.
United Parcel Service, Inc. earningsUPS
UPS's report offers a read on whether this parcel carrier's fleet purchases are still turning into orders for Xos electric delivery vehicles.
Look for UPS's disclosed Xos-vehicle purchases or delivery-fleet plans, not parcel volumes alone. Continued or increased purchases would show this important customer is still turning fleet needs into Xos vehicle sales; a disclosed pause or cut would put that source of demand under pressure. Growth in parcel volumes by itself does not establish that UPS ordered Xos vehicles.
Dana Incorporated earningsDAN
If Dana's report discusses axle-component supply or costs, it can offer a supply-side clue about Xos's vehicle production and deliveries.
Where Dana's report addresses axle components, look for supply, delivery and cost signals. Reliable supply and manageable costs would ease one constraint on Xos's vehicle production; shortages, delays or higher costs could slow Xos deliveries or leave less gross profit per vehicle. Dana's overall results cannot establish whether Xos itself received parts smoothly, so the conclusion depends on whether the report discusses the relevant components.
Xos, Inc. earningsThis company
Xos's report will show whether vehicle revenue and gross profit are rising with deliveries, rather than the company simply selling more lower-priced stripped chassis.
Read vehicle deliveries alongside vehicle revenue and gross profit. If all rise together, Xos is turning more deliveries into sales with profit left after product costs; if deliveries rise but revenue or gross profit stalls or falls, a greater share of stripped chassis may be lowering the average selling price, or costs may be absorbing the added revenue. The conclusion is whether Xos is getting more valuable sales from its vehicles, not just delivering more of them.
Workhorse Group, Inc earningsWKHS
Workhorse Group's report can show whether fleets are still buying electric last-mile vans in the market it shares with Xos—and whether a rival is winning those sales.
Read Workhorse's W56 deliveries alongside repeat fleet purchases. Rising deliveries with repeat orders would support demand for this type of electric delivery vehicle, but would also show Workhorse competing for customers Xos could pursue; weakness in both would point more to a softer shared market, not an automatic transfer of orders to Xos. The takeaway is what the report says about demand versus competitive pressure.
Blue Bird Corporation earningsBLBD
Blue Bird's report can show whether the school-bus maker is continuing to buy electric powertrains from Xos.
Look for Blue Bird's disclosed follow-on orders for Xos powertrains and signs that school-bus production or deliveries are continuing. Further orders or continued deliveries would support an ongoing revenue path for Xos's powertrain business; a disclosed pause or cancellation would weaken that support. If the report says nothing about orders, that alone does not show that purchases have stopped.
