Amazon UK provides e-cargo bikes, walkers in decarbonisation drive By Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) – Amazon (NASDAQ:) UK mentioned it will increase its electric-cargo bike fleet and make extra deliveries on foot to speed up the decarbonisation of the transportation community it makes use of to ship packages throughout the nation.

The group, which has 75,000 everlasting UK workers, mentioned on Thursday that it will add two new small supply hubs in London and open one in Manchester for the additional bikes and walkers, as a part of a 300 million pound ($359 million) five-year funding in electrification and decarbonisation in Britain which was introduced in October.

Amazon is concentrating on net-zero carbon by 2040 and mentioned that the additional e-cargo bikes, a four-wheeled car with handlebars and a container on the again, and the walkers would carry 2 million deliveries a yr.

In 2021, Amazon delivered greater than 45 million packages utilizing its electrical fleet. In addition to the electrical bikes, it already has 1,000 electrical supply vans and 5 absolutely electrical heavy items autos in its fleet.

“These new hubs won’t solely carry our prospects extra electric-powered deliveries, but in addition assist native authorities in search of methods to scale back congestion and discover various transportation strategies,” Amazon’s UK nation supervisor John Boumphrey mentioned in a press release.

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