{"id":33286,"date":"2022-10-09T21:55:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T01:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=33286"},"modified":"2022-10-09T21:55:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T01:55:37","slug":"amazon-will-spend-e1-billion-on-electric-vans-and-trucks-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=33286","title":{"rendered":"Amazon will spend \u20ac1 billion on electric vans and trucks in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon announced that it will spend \u20ac1 billion to electrify its delivery fleet in Europe over the next five years, according to Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The company currently has around 3,000 zero-emission last-mile delivery vans in Europe. Amazon doesn\u2019t say what percentage of its vans are electric, but does say that these zero-emission vans delivered 100 million packages last year.<\/p>\n

This investment will allow the company to expand that number to 10,000 vans across Europe by 2025. These \u201clast-mile\u201d vans are used on local delivery routes, bringing packages to individual homes. Amazon also has \u201cmicro-mobility\u201d delivery hubs in 20 European cities which enable delivery by cargo bike and on foot, and it plans to double this network of hubs.<\/p>\n

Amazon will also buy larger, heavy duty electric trucks for \u201cmiddle-mile\u201d shipments. These are vehicles like the Tesla Semi<\/a>, Freightliner eCascadia<\/a> and Volvo VNR electric<\/a> which move large amounts of goods from ports to distribution centers.<\/p>\n

Finally, the investment will also cover installation of thousands of chargers at the company\u2019s facilities around the continent.<\/p>\n

Amazon did not specify which brands of vehicles it would buy, but it currently has an order for 100,000 Rivian Electric Delivery Vans<\/a>. Those have been spotted making some deliveries<\/a>, though it will take some time for the company to build them all. Amazon invested $700 million<\/a> in Rivian in 2019, and the company is reportedly planning to build electric vans with Mercedes in Europe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But Amazon isn\u2019t only ordering vehicles from Rivian, they\u2019ve also made orders from Mercedes-Benz<\/a> themselves, Lion Electric<\/a>, and, just last week, Volvo<\/a>. So we don\u2019t know who exactly will provide these vans and trucks, but when companies get around to making them, it looks like there\u2019s another billion on the table ready to buy.<\/p>\n

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