Amazon Places Largest Ever Order For Electric Delivery Vans In An Effort To Green

In a noteworthy effort to fight climate change, Amazon has now decided to opt for electric vehicles for its logistics. The move was confirmed by its billionaire CEO Jeff Bezos during an event in Washington DC. Wasting no time, the company has already placed an order for 1,00,000 electric delivery vans.

As per a tweet by Nathan Bomey, the plan is to get these electric vehicles on the roads by 2024 in the US. With the prototypes expected by 2020, the first of these will be put into operations by as soon as 2021. The order for the electric delivery vans has been placed with Rivian, an electric vehicle startup famed for its adventure vehicles.

RED ALERT: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says the company has "just placed an order for 100,000 electric delivery vans" from Michigan-based start-up Rivian.

¡ª Nathan Bomey (@NathanBomey) September 19, 2019

As of now, Rivian only has two electric vehicle offerings in the market - a pickup truck R1T pickup and an SUV R1S SUV. But with both, the company managed to make a considerable name for itself in the EV industry. So much so that its efforts to raise money recently resulted in Amazon putting in $700 million into the company last February. Funding from other investors followed.

With the move to procure its future delivery vans from Rivian will benefit Amazon¡¯s own investment too. Majorly because of the high sales number that the order will tick for the startup. On top of this, the commitment by Amazon is passive announcement for another development by Rivian, an upcoming vehicle in the form of a delivery van. There were not many hints of such a vehicle in production by the company before.

Our fleet is Electrifying! Thrilled to announce the order of 100,000 electric delivery vehicles ¨C the largest order of electric delivery vehicles ever. Look out for the new vans starting in 2021. pic.twitter.com/y5qYpuy2WP

¡ª Dave Clark (@davehclark) September 19, 2019

As and when Rivian develops them and Amazon puts them to use, the electric delivery vans will work out well for everyone. Rivian will have a strong sales growth right before the vehicle is even brought to the production lines. Amazon, will have a considerably lower carbon footprint and, well, the environment will benefit as well! Great move Bezos!