Re:Driving Amazon’s electric delivery vehicle: Rivian EDV [v...
by eeyan on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @09:46AM
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Rivian made these, designed in collaboration with Amazon. There are a few points that make this a straightforward choice from an outsider's perspective.
- There's the efficiency and morale improvements, which others mentioned.
- There's also the better data tracking they'll have to make future improvements on all aspects of the delivery process.
- Amazon purchased 100,000 of these as well as equity (warrants I assume) in Rivian, so they received some of the upside after helping Rivian scale.
- Finally, I believe most (all?) of these delivery companies are contracted by Amazon and lease the vehicles from Amazon, so I'm sure they can make the unit economics work.
- There's the efficiency and morale improvements, which others mentioned.
- There's also the better data tracking they'll have to make future improvements on all aspects of the delivery process.
- Amazon purchased 100,000 of these as well as equity (warrants I assume) in Rivian, so they received some of the upside after helping Rivian scale.
- Finally, I believe most (all?) of these delivery companies are contracted by Amazon and lease the vehicles from Amazon, so I'm sure they can make the unit economics work.