US online retail giant Amazon has commenced using electric delivery vans made by Rivian, signalling the beginning of a massive shift to clean up the delivery of the company’s 2.5 billion packages a year.
The Rivian vans are the first of a massive 100,000 unit order from Amazon in 2019, which was timed with the retail giant’s Climate Pledge in which it invited companies to commit to net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, a decade ahead of the Paris accord.To put that number in context, at the end of 2019 Amazon had just 30,000 vans in its North American operations according to Bloomberg.
In 2019 Amazon also led a $US700 million ($A920 million) investment round in Rivian, which is also developing an all-electric SUV and ute (pickup), the latter of which the company’s CEO RJ Scaringe shared as he drove it in the snowy mountains outside Los Angeles on Sunday. Link - more like this (Amazon) - link
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