In 2019, Amazon stated that it would place more than 100,000 electric delivery vehicles on the road by the year 2040 when it co-launched The Climate Pledge. After five years, the Bezos-built home has just excelled the 15,000 EV mark.
Remarkably, Amazon and Rivian teamed up and paid for a notable amount of resources in a concept that was basically just a sketch at the time. Less than three years later, the vans were driving around allocating cat litter to clients who could not be troubled to walk to Costco, along with free two-day shipping.
It’s tough to contend with their success. To date, Amazon vans from Rivian have distributed more than 800 million packages to consumers in the US. And Amazon, to its approbation, has moved up the timeline.
Amazon now plans to fully stimulate its 100,000+ delivery van fleet by 2030 — fully ten years forth of the actual plan.
“Our 2024 viable Report emphasizes our firm allegiance to attain net-zero carbon emissions by 2040,” states Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon. “Electric vehicles play a vital role in our approach.”
Back in May, Amazon declared that it had placed a number of fully electric Volvo semi trucks into ocean freight service in California.
These trucks are joining the thousands of Ford and Rivian last-mile electric vans that are already delivering packages throughout the golden state by hauling huge freight containers and customer package loads in Amazon’s first- and middle-mile operations.
Along with the enormous investment in vehicles, there needs to be an equally large investment in infrastructure to keep all those EVs running. In order to achieve this, more than 120 delivery sites around the US now have more than 17,000 chargers installed by Amazon. The corporation is investigating more electric transportation options, such drones and electric cargo bikes, to further progress its environmental initiatives.
