10,000 EVS to enter Amazon’s delivery fleet in next 5 years
NEW DELHI: E-commerce major Amazon India on Monday said its fleet of delivery vehicles in the country will include 10,000 electric vehicles by 2025. Amazon’s rival, Flipkart had in June last year said it aims to replace 40 per cent of its delivery vans with EVS by March this year. The Walmart-owned company has deployed EVS in cities like Delhi, Hyderabad and Bengaluru. Amazon, in a statement, said it piloted electric vehicles in several cities across India in 2019 and is now expanding this initiative across the country. It added that learnings from the pilot have helped the company create scalable and long-term EV variants to build this large fleet.
The announcement comes days after the American e-tail giant had announced investment of $1 billion for digitising small and medium businesses, and creation of one million jobs by 2025.
“The f l eet of 10,000 EVS - including three-wheeler and four-wheeler vehicles - has been designed and manufactured by original equipment manufacturers (OEMS) in India,” Amazon said in its statement.
In 2020, these vehicles will operate in over 20 cities of India - Delhi NCR, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Pune, Nagpur and Coimbatore, among others.
These EVS are in addition to the global commitment of one lakh EVS in the delivery fleet by 2030 announced in the Climate Pledge signed by Amazon.
As part of the pledge, Amazon had announced its plans to introduce 10,000 of EVS into its delivery fleet globally in 2022 and one lakh vehicles by 2030 – saving four million metric tonnes of carbon per year by 2030.
Amazon India said that the government’s focus on encouraging the adoption of electric vehicles in the country, and steps towards the setting up of charging infrastructure under the FAME 2 policy has helped the company accelerate and chart its vision for EVS in India.
In September last year, Amazon India had announced its plan to eliminate single-use plastic in its packaging from its fulfilment centres by June 2020