Amazon has a plan to deploy 100,000 electric vans to its delivery fleet by 2030. At the rate it’s going, that might happen a little sooner. On Thursday, it announced that it now has 10,000 Rivian electric delivery vans in service—up from 5,000 earlier this July.
They are custom vans from Rivian, so I wouldn’t imagine those wouldn’t make sense be owned by a third party. But maybe they still are for union busting reasons as mentioned in the article?
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They definitely force third parties to have Amazon vans. I was trying to find a news article about a lady’s house getting smashed into and her fight to get anyone to compensate her.
This isn’t that article, but gets to the point anyway
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-delivery-service-partners-contract-van-repairs-rivian-2023-5