How companies are making deliveries more sustainable
Source: https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/slideshow/How-companies-are-making-deliveries-more-234914.php
Author: Charlotte Barnett
The use of eco-friendly delivery vehicles is a positive and impactful way a delivery service can make their business more environmentally conscious. Electric vehicles typically have a much smaller carbon footprint than vehicles that use gasoline for fuel. With so many online shopping deliveries made daily via vans and trucks, using electric vehicles would significantly reduce the amount of toxic emissions produced. The U.S. Postal Service recently announced that more than 10,000 units of their order of 50,000 next-generation vehicles will be battery-operated. Amazon, a company that has pledged to make at least half of its deliveries carbon-neutral by 2030, is in the process of purchasing thousands of battery-operated vans to make this possible. (The company also invested $1.3 billion in EV automaker Rivian) FedEx, with a goal of being carbon neutral by 2040, is also taking its fleet electric and UPS has committed to purchasing 10,000 electric delivery vehicles.