Electric Delivery Vehicles in Europe: A Study by Amazon and the Rivian Electric Vehicle Distribution Network (EVDs) in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Nashville, San Diego, and Seattle
Jassy said that Amazon’s investment will hopefully spur the installation of more public EV chargers in Europe, as well as serve as an incentive to the auto industry to make more electric delivery vehicles.
Many global delivery firms have made commitments to switching to an all-electric fleet, but the process so far as been slow. Electric delivery vehicles from Volkswagen, Ford, and General GM are only a fraction of the cars on the road today.
That’s still only a fraction of the company’s overall transportation fleet, which is comprised 30,000 Amazon-branded delivery vehicles and 20,000 branded trailers. But the electric-portion is growing, with Rivian eventually expecting to deliver 100,000 vans to the company.
Starting in July, the EDVs first rolled out in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Nashville, San Diego, and Seattle. Since then, they’ve been put into service in a bunch of new cities, including Austin, Boston, Denver, Houston, Indianapolis, Las Vegas, Madison, Newark, New York, Oakland, Pittsburgh, Portland, Provo, and Salt Lake City.