The American giant Amazon intends to “more than double” its fleet of electric vehicles that make deliveries in Europe, with an investment of “more than one billion euros” in five years, it announced this Monday, to work on “the decarbonization of its network transport in Europe”.
“As part of the investment announced today, Amazon plans to purchase and deploy more than 1,500 electric heavy-duty vehicles within its European fleet, including more than 300 in France in the coming years,” the company said in a press release.
“Net zero CO2 emissions by 2040”
The company also intends to grow its electric utility fleet from “3,000+” today to “10,000+ by 2025”.
Amazon has set a goal of being “net zero CO2 emissions by 2040, ten years ahead of the goal set by the Paris Agreement,” a goal viewed skeptically by some industry organizations fighting climate change due to company’s high carbon level. fingerprint.
The American giant manages a gigantic logistics network around the world for its deliveries, as well as a “cloud” offer, online storage space, based on energy-intensive server farms.
Note that by “zero emission vehicle” Amazon refers to vehicles “that do not emit any CO2 emissions during their driving phase.” On the other hand, its manufacture may have caused the emission of greenhouse gases.
Source: BFM TV
