Inside Amazon's electric delivery trucks



Amazon rolled out the first of its planned fleet of long-haul electric trucks in Los Angeles this week, but the company already has a large amount of electronic vehicles rolling through much of the country, delivering hundreds of millions of packages.

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47 thoughts on “Inside Amazon's electric delivery trucks”

  1. I'm an Amazon delivery driver in Lakewood. My question to Amazon is when are they going to start giving their drivers a pay raise!? Give our DSP's more money to give to their driver's so we can live comfortably. Amazon making all this money but don't want to pay their employees more is a shame.

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  2. Or how many watts of Electric GRID POWER have charged these FAKE electric trucks? So the ELECTRIC GRID is 100% GREEN or Diesel/NATURAL GAS carbon generation? Would be interesting if it was not stealing from Peter to pay Paul!

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  3. Let’s be clear here, Amazon didn’t switch to EVs because of the environment. They switched because it’s significantly cheaper to operate and repair compared to ICE vehicles. This is also the reason why I switched to an EV, not because of the environment, because I hate the environment.

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  4. Environmental wise & cost per mile wise this an insane deal knowing nobody is complaining about “charging”…. The average UPS truck gets 5-8mpg average…. A ups driver drives about 100k miles costing insane maintenance& gas prices for a poor fuel economy truck… (for this scenario) let’s judge it by 3 years & 300k miles. With a higher 8mpg you’d average 37,500 gallons (300k miles divided by 8 mpg) because that’s always how you calculate fuel consumption. Each gallon becomes 20 pounds of emissions so that’s 750,000 pounds (or about 340.19 metric tons) of CO2 emissions……… In a sad comparison the battery only takes 3-16 metric tons to produce IF it uses zero recycled material AND stricky comes from (NCM) batteries chemistry unlike (LPH) which uses zero rare earth metals used I’d 37% of EVs today. For the price you Multiply that by the price of gas, let's say $4.20 a gallon in my state (NV) or something like a larger state meaning California which is $5.25, you’d get $157,500-196,875 for the price of gas over the course of 3 Years/300k miles….. I literally wish that price in cost comparison went to the driver but that’s not how the game works. 2 strong reasons why we study fossil fuels & clean energy footprints in the U.S. 🇺🇸 California my old home actually just hit the cleanest grid energy of 33 days of PURE CLEAN ENERGY early 2024… Clean energy is peaking 🌱

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  5. Where is the electricity coming from to these charging stations? It not saving the planet instead pollutes more, do your research! It would be stupid to think green is not green!

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  6. One problem for Rivian has been the fact that Amazon hasn't bought as many vans as they originally committed to buying which has added to the struggle to survive for Rivian. Originally Amazon was supposed to have exclusive access to purchase the Rivian delivery vehicles and that limitation has since been removed. Probably the fact that the time and effort needed to build out their charging network slowed the process for Amazon.

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  7. Rivian isn’t going anywhere. At all. People base Rivian’s success solely on just their passenger vehicles when in reality it’s the commercial side of the business that has the entire company on it back. Y’all think rivian is just selling those vans to Amazon? Check the news, At&T and many others have pilot programs with the same vans. Canadian mails truck, USPS trucks. Rivian saved itself by putting these vans into production. They just recently got under a billion dollar package from the state of IL to keep production healthy. Rivian 🚀 🚀🚀

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  8. I used to see lots of the electric vans, in the past few months I have not seen any of them.. I have been wondering where they are.
    Amazon could cover the parking lots where they charge the vans with Pv solar and batteries. Electric seems to be a good fit for last mile delivery.

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  9. Carbon fuels are renewable. Carbon is absorbed by trees and stored back in the ground as oil. Rare earth metals like lithium were deposited during the creation of our solar system and are not renewable. Once lithium is destroyed, it will not regenerate.

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  10. And how is that electric power created?? Right from the grid, or often diesel generators. The lies they tell will come out in years to come. Just like "acid rain", "hole in the ozone", "Florida completely under water" and so on.

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