Charged EVs | Amazon adds Volvo electric drayage trucks to its EV fleet

Amazon’s electric delivery trucks, which the retail big developed in cooperation with Rivian, have gotten frequent sights in lots of elements of the US. Now the corporate is including fifty Class 8 EVs to its drayage fleet in Southern California.

Amazon’s Volvo VNR Electric tractors will haul each cargo containers and buyer bundle hundreds in Amazon’s first- and middle-mile operations. They’ve already began hitting the street on the ports of Los Angeles and Lengthy Seaside, and a dozen are anticipated to be in service by the tip of the yr.

The Volvo VNR Electrical has a variety of as much as 275 miles, and a gross mixed automobile weight ranking (GVWR) of 82,000 kilos. Security options embody energetic collision mitigation, blind spot detection, lane departure warning, lane holding help and adaptive cruise management.

As Electrek’s Jo Borrás notes, Amazon is giving itself a pat on the again for deploying the emissions-reducing electrical vans, however in truth the corporate has little selection—because of California’s new Advanced Clean Fleets regulation, deploying new ICE vans in drayage purposes will successfully be banned quickly. (Enforcement of the regulation is currently on hold pending a decision from the EPA, however that is anticipated to be resolved inside a yr.)

“We’re proud to launch our largest fleet of electrical heavy-duty autos but in California,” mentioned Udit Madan, VP of Worldwide Amazon Operations. “Heavy-duty trucking is a very troublesome space to decarbonize, which makes us all of the extra excited to have these autos on the street right this moment. We’ll use what we study from deploying these autos as we proceed to determine and put money into options to cut back emissions in our transportation community.”

Supply: Electrek