The 3,000 custom electric delivery vans are currently making deliveries in more than 500 cities and regions in the US.
Amazon continues to expand its all-electric delivery fleet, and the online retailer claims the rollout of Rivian EDV vans is the fastest of an electric delivery fleet at this scale in the US.
Since launching last year, Amazon claims it has more than 3,000 custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian making deliveries in more than 500 cities and regions across the United States. That's tripleTo date, over 75 million packages have been delivered using the zero-emission vehicles, Amazon says. That's a massive increase over the 10 million packages reported in February 2022.
As part of The Climate Pledge co-founded by Amazon in 2019, which saw the company commit to achieving net-zero carbon by 2040, the e-commerce giant announcedGallery: Amazon Electric Delivery VehicleObviously, the 3,000 vehicles that are currently in Amazon's fleet represent a tiny fraction of the 100,000 units Rivian is bound to deliver by 2030.
Amazon started testing Rivian EDV vans in February 2021 in Los Angeles, expanding to over a dozen cities by summer 2021. In November 2022, the e-commerce company said the rollout was going on as planned, with more than 1,000 Rivian electric vans ready for the holiday season across over 100 US cities.EDV, Amazon has been adding more than 15 models of battery electric vehicles to its fleet, including delivery vehicles, e-cargo bikes, and e-rickshaws.
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