E-commerce giant Amazon plans to replace its van delivery fleet in London with e-cargo bikes. The move was motivated by the online retailer’s goal of cutting down on its carbon footprint. Amazon is opening a micromobility hub in Hackney as part of this effort.
Amazon will replace thousands of its delivery vans with e-cargo bikes and on-foot delivery staff that will be seen in London. The Hackney Micromobility hub is Amazon’s first and it hopes to make up to 5 million deliveries a year. The areas covered are about 10% of London’s ultra-low emission zone passcode districts. Amazon is also planning on expanding the program to cover other cities in the UK. It is a part of the broad objectives of Amazon to cut down on carbon emissions.
The e-cargo bikes will be operated by several Amazon partner businesses and the program comes two years after Amazon was named as a partner in the London Wall car park project. The project itself is however yet to kick off. According to Amazon UK’s chief, John Boumphrey Amazon is pursuing a global net-zero carbon status. This has been reflected in the transformation of its transportation networks to electric-compliant. The program will be scaled up in other parts of the UK with the opening of micromobility hubs in the coming months.
The Amazon e-cargo delivery system will improve air quality in its service area, especially for people in Hackney, east London. The UK government is incentivizing the use of e-bikes. It has also ramped up the provision of the needed infrastructure to support the reduction of carbon emissions across its economic chain.
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