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Amazon ’s 10,000Rivian - made all - electric van are delivering package throughout the United States , the e - commerce company disclose Tuesday eve during its Delivering the Future event .
Amazon , which owns a stake in Rivian , progress to a deal with the automaker in 2019 to have at least 100,000 electric deliverance vans on the road by 2030 . The decree is part of Amazon ’s clime toast to become atomic number 6 inert by 2040 .
Amazon began roll out itselectric delivery vansin summer 2022 . The majority of the electric livery vans are in the U.S. , break across 1,800 or so cities . Amazon start bring the electric delivery vansto Europethis summer and recently announced plans to deploy more than 300 vans in Germany .
The custom electric delivery van is one of three vehicles that Rivian is developing or producing . Its other two vehicles , the R1 thymine pickup and R1S SUV , are consumer EVs . Rivian enounce earlier this month it have a bun in the oven toproduce 52,000 vehicles — a mathematical group that includes the vans — by the end of the class .
The vehicle , which are assembled at Rivian ’s manufactory in Normal , Illinois , share some of the same design characteristic find in today ’s gasoline - powered versions . The new EV vans have a few more rounded edges , giving them an overall sleeker appearance . The existent difference is in the electric architecture and the customs feature that have been incorporate into the vanguard , including main road driving and traffic assist features , exterior camera that can provide a 360 - arcdegree sentiment for the driver via a digital display , and circumvent rear lamp for better brake profile .
As part of Amazon ’s mood toast , the society has also launched a $ 2 billion mood investment trust to invest in startups that suit into its last - zero vision . Rivian as well as Redwood Materials , CarbonCure Technologies , Pachama and Turntide Technologies are few of the fellowship that Amazon has invested in through the climate fund .
