Mercedes-Benz inked its largest order of electric vehicles to date, selling more than 1,800 vans to Amazon for the company’s delivery fleet in Europe.
Mercedes also joined Amazon’s Climate Pledge, an initiative announced by the tech giant last year to become net carbon neutral by 2040. Other signatories include Verizon, Infosys, and Lysol.
Amazon last year announced plans to purchase 100,000 electric vans from Rivian to bolster its delivery fleet; it is also a major investor in the Irvine, Calif.-based company.
In June, Amazon launched The Climate Pledge Fund, a new venture capital investment program that will funnel an initial $2 billion into startups building sustainable technologies across various industries such as transportation, food, manufacturing, and more.
Amazon’s 2019 sustainability report shows that its greenhouse gas emissions rose over the previous year by 15%, illustrating the challenge the company faces in its quest to go carbon neutral.
