Re:Jeff Bezos climate change plan unveiled – buy 100k electr...
by organsnyder on Thursday September 19, 2019 @12:44PM
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Batching deliveries could result in massive energy savings. Right now, Amazon's vans tend to hop around neighborhoods (at least that's what their delivery tracker shows me). If deliveries were batched, the delivery density would be much higher, reducing the distance a single vehicle would have to travel to empty a full load of packages.
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Re:Jeff Bezos climate change plan unveiled – buy 100k electr...
by djaychela on Thursday September 19, 2019 @12:55PM
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Absolutely - imagine if there was a system where you had one delivery a week which consisted of all the items from all the shopping you'd done, instead of piecemeal deliveries throughout the week. The savings could be immense, but I can't imagine such a system being popular.
Re:Jeff Bezos climate change plan unveiled – buy 100k electr...
by rrix2 on Thursday September 19, 2019 @01:03PM
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Amazon provides this already: https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=17928921011
Re:Jeff Bezos climate change plan unveiled – buy 100k electr...
by djaychela on Thursday September 19, 2019 @01:41PM
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Sorry, I wasn't clear - I meant across all delivery services, not just Amazon.
It'd be interesting to see how many people actually use that option to consolidate a significant amount of items on Amazon, though.