Amazon Starts Deliveries Using E-Cargo Bikes In the UK

Amazon has started using e-cargo bikes in the UK for deliveries that are more sustainable. Amazon has been on a pathway towards making its logistics operations more sustainable with deals with Rivian which has designed electric delivery vans as well. The e-cargo bikes are a part of its UK micro-mobility hub in central London. Amazon estimates that over five million deliveries a year will be done across London’s ultra-low emission zone.

"Our new e-cargo bikes, walkers and growing electric vehicle delivery fleet will help us make more zero-emission customer deliveries than ever before across London and the UK," [John Boumphrey], UK Country Manager, Amazon, said in a statement.

Amazon is also deploying large-scale solar panel installations in facilities it has in Manchester, Coalville, Haydock, Bristol and Milton Keynes before the end of the year to help power those facilities with renewable energy. Amazon says that it will double on-site solar energy projects by 2024 in the UK.

Amazon has a shipment zero mission which involves 50 per cent of its shipments with net-zero carbon by 2030 and has the ultimate goal of being carbon neutral by 2040 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement on climate change.

Already in the UK, it has 1,000 electric vans which helped deliver more than 45 million packages. It also has announced five new fully electric heavy good vehicles that are each 37-tonnes. These trucks will be replacing their diesel trucks.