Amazon plans to utilize its own charging infrastructure to grow its EV delivery fleet in India.

Amazon will be developing its own EV charging infrastructure for its growing fleet of electric delivery vehicles in India. While they will be collaborating with other partners to expand their charging and transportation options as the company has set its vision of achieving their sustainability goals, as confirmed by a top company executive.

The US-based e-commerce company is planning to introduce over 1,000 electric trucks into its fleet network in India over next five years, thus adding to the current network of 10,000 electric vehicles fleet. This strategic move is aimed for providing more sustainability. 

The Vice President of Amazon, Global Engineering and Sustainability, Andreas Marschner expressed his views on this and said, “this challenge is not just limited to India as this problem persists globally. The challenge which is highlighted is actually the main problem arising everywhere. 

What we have been indexing high so far is generally on-site charging. It’s also the same in India ensuring that we have the ability to charge the vehicles at delivery stations at the point where deliveries will commence.” Amazon is on the forefront of accelerating the EV adoption across its logistics network in order to reduce carbon emissions.