Amazon orders 1,800 electric Mercedes-Benz28 Aug 2020 11:16
Amazon orders 1,800 electric Mercedes-Benz vans for European deliveries
28 Aug, 2020 09:21
Amazon announced on Friday that it had ordered 1,800 electric vans from Mercedes-Benz to carry out European deliveries.
The move is part of the company’s plan to go carbon neutral by 2040. CEO Jeff Bezos said that the investment in electric vehicles is part of a “journey to build the most sustainable transportation fleet in the world.”
“Moving forward, we are prioritizing the addition of electric vehicles,” Ross Rachey, Amazon’s director of global fleet and products for last-mile delivery told Reuters.
The majority of the cars will go into service this year as part of the European fleet, the company said, adding that it had ordered 1,200 of Mercedes-Benz’s larger eSprinter models and 600 of the midsize eVitos.
The order is the largest for Mercedes-Benz’s electric vehicles to date.
It is not the only investment Amazon has been making electric vehicles after it recently ordered 100,000 electric delivery vans from Rivian Automotive LLC, a startup it has invested in.
Mercedes-Benz on Friday joined The Climate Pledge, started by Amazon last year, which calls on signatories to be net zero carbon across their businesses by 2040.