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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I wish them good luck.
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.
Wonder how many of these Amazon electric garbage trucks has burnt to the ground full of customers package?
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!
All this woke news is still all woke!!
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Net zero carbon?????
To save even more energy stop ordering all those unnecessary stuff.
Did that guy actually say "Engines on?"
I rarely have a parcel delivered by USPS. And in terms of the environment, when USPS delivers, it is at a zero cost because the vehicle is coming here anyway.
Rivian posted a negative gross profit of $527 million and an operating loss of $1.48 billion. The company could go bankrupt in around six quarters. Maybe Amazon will buy it, and lose even more money.
The scam is almost over..😂
Where do the rivian drivers go to the bathroom? Most use bottles
And the coal plants make the electricity…
Batteries don't make energy. Without solar panel farms to charge, these vans just make coal plants work harder.
Great job Amazon!
We need more cargo bike deliveries in the USA
Evs good for commercial in city like ride share
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.
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 🌱
Makes sense!
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!
Zero carbon! It pollutes more by charging these trucks! They live in the Lila thin airs land!
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.
At least the Long-haul trucks don't look like they have Downs Syndrome like the Rivian Amazon delivery vans
Does this mean that overnight delivery will be 5 days now ?
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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 🚀 🚀🚀
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.
Maybe with the 360 camera censors the drivers won’t crash every other week 🤣🤣
It's a RIVIAN EDV give them the credit they deserve
And the "grid" gets most of it's energy from burning coal😂
More evs 😂🎉🫶🏻let’s go!
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.
What is Amazons plan to recycle all those batteries?
But electricity comes is not from renewal sources
Funny how many companies cancelled their EV deliveries as they're a pain in the neck to use.
they could sell access to their charging network during the day (when the vans are out delivering).
Gonna be cold in them in the winter and hot in them in the summer.
The electricity powering them had better not be from any fossil fuel companies. Honestly, what's it gotta take to get the fossil fuel industry to shut down?
We all have the 50% emission cut before 2030 goal for crying out loud! That gives us a time from of about 5 years left!
It's a fad, it won't last too much longer. The proof is in the pudding and this pudding doesn't work.
Gonna be cold in them in the winter and hot in them in the summer. Never used that jungle company. Can’t believe people can’t just go to the store.
Jajajajaja Of course they rob the trucks paying 1.30 per mile. they are more thieves
I worked at this warehouse lol these trucks break in like 500 miles. This is hilariously horseshit
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.
Greener😂
It’s funny that he says “Alpha Pad Engines on when there electric vehicles with no engines 😭😭