Amazon Already Utilizing Over 1000 Rivian EVs for Deliveries

Rivian’s electrical supply vans numbers are slowly however absolutely rising in Amazon’s big supply car fleet. The 1,000 EDVs that Amazon owns have already remodeled 5 million deliveries within the U.S., in response to The Verge. 

The plan is for Rivian to promote 100,000 vans to Amazon, however for now the EDVs serve a really small portion of the corporate’s supply fleet. It reportedly has 30,000 branded supply automobiles and 20,000 branded trailers. So, 1,000 EDVs is a small quantity as compared.

Based on the Verge, those EDVs are unfold out over a handful of markets. They began in cities like Baltimore, Chicago and Seattle. Nonetheless, they’re now additionally in Austin, Boston, Indianapolis, New York (quite a lot of Jalops have even noticed them within the wild), and several other others. So, Rivian and Amazon are hitting just about all the key markets.

When Amazon founder and then-CEO Jeff Bezos first introduced the take care of Rivian in 2019 to purchase 100,000 vans, he mentioned they might all be on the highway by 2024. Nonetheless, given the entire state of your entire world over the previous couple of years, The Verges says that date has been pushed again to 2030.

In the course of the third quarter of 2022 (a three-month interval that ended on September 30), Rivian reportedly constructed 7,363 EVDs, R1Ts and R1Ss. Throughout the identical timeframe, 6,584 of these automobiles had been delivered to clients. It’s a sluggish ramp up for the Irvine, California-based EV startup, and solely time will inform if it could possibly hit the revised 100,000 Amazon EDV supply goal of 2030.

Within the meantime, we will gawk at the truth that the EDV and the Honda E have the exact same face.