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As part of a record-breaking order in January 2025, there will be a total of 160 electric trucks on UK roads once fully deployed, making Britain home to the highest number of eHGVs in Amazon's global transportation network. In fact, Amazon has installed fast charging points at its UK sites that can ...

Amazon wants to launch at least 100,000 electric delivery vans all over the world in the next few years. That's why the company is considering several electric van brands as possible suppliers. The news, provided by Reuters, has been recently confirmed by top managers at BrightDrop.

Three quarters of the aforementioned electric vehicles will be eSprinter large vans. These are currently made available by Mercedes in two lengths and with three different battery capacity sizes, offering a range of up to 484 km. The remaining quarter of vehicles will be eVito medium-sized vans, whi...

"Amazon currently has more than 20,000 in its fleet and delivered over a billion packages from its Electric Delivery Vans in 2024 alone. Over the last year we have been focusing our efforts on testing with some larger fleets, and we’re really pleased with how those trials have gone", said Tom Solomo...

With more than 140 trucks to be deployed in the UK and more than 50 in Germany, the zero emission vehicles are expected to transport more than 350 million packages. The order is preceded by the practical testing of a near-series prototype of the eActros 600 in one of Amazon's logistics centers in Ge...

According to Reuters, "the production halt is the latest in a series of supply chain challenges for Rivian, which, like other EV makers, has grappled with significant production issues over the past two years due to supplier shortages".