I'm sure you can find a thousand articles/discussions online about the math behind how driving cars to stores is significantly more polluting than "salesman problem"ing a single delivery truck.
Bonus: it's far easier to electrify or improve 1 delivery truck than it is the 100 cars it's displacing.
https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/what-if-more-people-bought...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-05/americans...
I'm sure you can find a thousand articles/discussions online about the math behind how driving cars to stores is significantly more polluting than "salesman problem"ing a single delivery truck.
Bonus: it's far easier to electrify or improve 1 delivery truck than it is the 100 cars it's displacing.