Amazon touts electric van numbers but hides the key metric: share of clean deliveries
Summary
The article criticizes Amazon for not disclosing the most meaningful metric of its electric vehicle transition: the share of deliveries completed by zero-emission vehicles. While Amazon touts putting tens of thousands of electric vans on the road and a goal of 100,000 by 2030, the author argues that without knowing what percentage of total deliveries are made clean, the true pace of progress remains hidden. The piece calls for greater transparency from Amazon on this key environmental metric.
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· 3 pulledPutting tens of thousands of electric delivery vans on the road is real progress, and the goal of 100,000 by 2030 is genuinely ambitious.
But there's one number I can't find anywhere in Amazon's reporting, and it's the one that would actually show how fast this is moving: the share of Amazon's deliveries that arrive in a zero-emission vehicle.
While Amazon loves to talk about the electric vans it's put on the road, it has never once published the number that actually matters: the share of deliveries that arrive clean.
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