Video: Sculpting Amazon's Rivian EV Van
[Feb. 4, 2020]
Amazon delivery vehicles are everywhere. If you live in, well, any city, you’re already familiar with the sheer number of Amazon delivery vans that speed from distribution hubs all day long, busily delivering Amazon packages as quick as quick can be. But as we heard late last year, many of those delivery vans will be changing from ICE to EV in the not too distant future.
Today, Amazon released a short video offering a better look at its Rivian-produced Amazon delivery vans, which may hit roads en masse as early as 2021.
The video takes viewers through the thought and design process for the vans that will be produced in Rivian’s Normal, Ill., plant. But while the video covers some of the delivery vehicle’s design elements, the main goal appears to be to push the environmental benefits of exchanging 100,000 ICE delivery vans for EVs.
“We’re trying to build the most sustainable transportation fleet in the world,” Ross Rachey, Amazon’s Director of Global Last-Mile Fleet, explains in the video’s opening moments.
“We’re at an inflection point in human history where our actions are shifting and fundamentally changing the nature of what this planet feels like to live in. So we’re changing the climate,” Rivian CEO R.J. Scaringe says.
Ultimately, Amazon’s EV vans will look nominally different from the existing ICE vans that the company utilizes. However, what we can’t wait to see is the charging infrastructure that Amazon will utilize in order to support such a fleet – and whether Amazon will also offer a public EV charging infrastructure, since Amazon seems to be in the business of selling anything and everything.
(Image courtesy Amazon)
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