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Amazon expands road testing of Rivian electric delivery vans
This article was originally published on Fool.com. All figures quoted in US dollars unless otherwise stated.
Amazon.com, Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) revealed today on its official Amazon News Twitter account that it has expanded the testing of its planned fleet of electric delivery vans.
Road testing is now beginning in San Francisco, marking the second city after the vans started being utilised in Los Angeles earlier this year. The company plans to have them on the roads of 16 cities by the end of this year.
The Rivian electric vans are part of Amazon’s Climate Pledge investment. Amazon led a $700 million investment round in Rivian in 2019 as part of the Climate Pledge agreement it co-founded. The agreement commits to achieving…
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