While the UK’s bike industry has been enduring an extremely difficult few years of trading, the B2B logistics side of the bike trade has been rocketing, with Amazon electric cargo bikes now approaching the one million mile landmark.
Since 2022 , Amazon has made more than 150 million deliveries using electric vans and cargo bikes in the UK alone. As part of the retail and delivery giant’s sustainability efforts, delivery drivers/riders have cycled more than 900,000 miles on electric cargo bikes across the UK.
The company is expanding electric deliveries across UK city centres, with recent electric cargo bike launches in Belfast and Norwich, joining existing Amazon partner fleets in London, Manchester and Glasgow. To date, more than 500,000 Amazon customer delivery routes have changed from traditional fuel vehicles to zero-exhaust emission alternatives.
Since 2022, delivery drivers have driven more than 19 million miles in the electric vans.
“Decarbonisation is one of the biggest challenges facing the logistics industry, as businesses seek to match the need to move away from a reliance on fossil fuels with pressures from customers to maximise delivery efficiency, said Michelle Gardner, Deputy Director, Policy, Logistics UK. “Currently, almost 90% of the UK’s freight is moved by road, so it is important that the sector considers alternatively-fuelled vehicles and a shift to different transport modes in order to fulfil demand.”
Amazon electric cargo bike deliveries are now operational from hubs in more than 45 cities across the UK and Europe, with recent additions in Belfast, Norwich, Madrid, Rome and Vienna […]
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