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Amazon is such a powerful force in the e-commerce business that the company is single-handedly changing our notions of e-commerce with each passing year. Jeff Bezos has been running the show since July 1994, and in addition to a net worth of 113.4 billion dollars, the American entrepreneur has also managed to found a way for Amazon to pay $0 in taxes on $11,000,000,000 in profit in 2018.
You could say that the company’s practices are too much for lesser rivals to handle, but then again, remember how Amazon got here in the first place. The Seattle-based business has always invested its profits into making Amazon bigger and less dependent on third-party entities for packaging, shipping, and so forth. To this effect, Amazon is playing the long game better than any competitor.
Looking forward into the 2020s, Bezos and his higher-ups decided that electric vans are of utmost importance as delivery vehicles. The fleet is electrifying with 100,000 e-delivery vehicles from 2021 onward from Rivian Automotive Inc.
“Wait, isn’t Rivian that startup from Plymouth, Michigan with a pickup and SUV that haven’t made it to series production thus far?” The answer to that is yes, dearest reader, but don’t forget that Amazon poured $700 million into Rivian at the beginning of 2019 as a gesture of goodwill and a show of good faith.
Dave Clark, the senior vice president of Worldwide Operations & Customer Service, confirmed the deal in a tweet, and Amazon said that 10,000 of the vans will be on the streets by 2022. The remaining 90,000 will be ready to roll by 2030, and Amazon estimates this fleet will prevent 4 million metric tons of CO2 from reaching the atmosphere by the turn of the 2030s. Pretty impressive, right?
In truth, Bezos might’ve been offered a good price for those 100,000 vans by Rivian. The switch from internal combustion to electric propulsion also translates to lower maintenance costs and less downtime, which would help Amazon make the most out of the multi-billion-dollar order. But Amazon won’t stop there…
The plan is to rely on 100-percent renewable energy by 2030 for its global infrastructure, on its path to a zero-carbon model by 2040. As if that wasn’t enough, the Right Now Climate Fund by Amazon has committed $100 million “to restore and protect forests, wetlands, and peatlands around the world in partnership with The Nature Conservancy.”
Looking forward into the 2020s, Bezos and his higher-ups decided that electric vans are of utmost importance as delivery vehicles. The fleet is electrifying with 100,000 e-delivery vehicles from 2021 onward from Rivian Automotive Inc.
“Wait, isn’t Rivian that startup from Plymouth, Michigan with a pickup and SUV that haven’t made it to series production thus far?” The answer to that is yes, dearest reader, but don’t forget that Amazon poured $700 million into Rivian at the beginning of 2019 as a gesture of goodwill and a show of good faith.
Dave Clark, the senior vice president of Worldwide Operations & Customer Service, confirmed the deal in a tweet, and Amazon said that 10,000 of the vans will be on the streets by 2022. The remaining 90,000 will be ready to roll by 2030, and Amazon estimates this fleet will prevent 4 million metric tons of CO2 from reaching the atmosphere by the turn of the 2030s. Pretty impressive, right?
In truth, Bezos might’ve been offered a good price for those 100,000 vans by Rivian. The switch from internal combustion to electric propulsion also translates to lower maintenance costs and less downtime, which would help Amazon make the most out of the multi-billion-dollar order. But Amazon won’t stop there…
The plan is to rely on 100-percent renewable energy by 2030 for its global infrastructure, on its path to a zero-carbon model by 2040. As if that wasn’t enough, the Right Now Climate Fund by Amazon has committed $100 million “to restore and protect forests, wetlands, and peatlands around the world in partnership with The Nature Conservancy.”
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