Amazon.com Inc, Plans To Invest IDR 14.9 Trillion For Van And Electric Truck Production In The Future Five Years

Amazon.com Inc, prepare thousands of electric trucks as a delivery fleet. (photo: doc. pixabay)

JAKARTA - Amazon.com Inc announced on Monday, September 10 that it will invest more than 1 billion euros over the next five years in production of electric vans, trucks, and other low-emission vehicles across Europe. This is their effort to accelerate their efforts to achieve zero carbon emissions.

The world's largest retailer company said the investment also aims to spur innovation across the transportation industry and encourage more public charging infrastructure for electric vehicles (EVs).

This online retailer from the US also said the investment would help its electric van fleet in Europe more than triple from 3,000 vehicles to more than 10,000 by 2025.

Amazon did not say what percentage of Europe's long-range delivery fleet today is electricity, but said the 3,000 zero-emissions vans could deliver more than 100 million packages by 2021.

Amazon said it also hopes to buy more than 1,500 electric heavy goods vehicles, which are used for delivery of "middle distances" to the package center, in the coming years.

Although a number of large logistics companies, including package forwarding firms United Parcel Service Inc and FedEx Corp, have committed to buying large amounts of non-emissions electric vans and trucks, but are still not widely available for purchases.

A number of startups are also racing to bring electric vans or trucks to the market and face increasingly fierce competition from old manufacturers such as General Motors Co and Ford Motor Co.

Amazon's largest electric van order is for 100,000 vehicles from Rivian Automotive Inc through 2025.

Amazon also said that alongside EVs, they would invest in thousands of chargers in facilities across Europe.

They also said they would invest in doubling Europe's "micro mobility" hub network from more than 20 cities today.

Amazon itself has used the hub located at the center to run new delivery methods including electric cargo bicycles or walking shipments to reduce emissions. Amazon itself is planning to be able to achieve carbon net-zero by 2040.