Amazon and ABB partner to help push EV adoption

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A collaboration between diversified industrial AbbVie Inc (NYSE: ABBV) and Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is likely to increase electric vehicle (EV) adoption among transportation companies and fleet operators.

That’s the key takeaway from the recently announced collaboration between ABB and Amazon’s cloud computing business, Amazon Web Services (AWS). ABB will bring its know-how in energy management and charging technology to AWS’ cloud technology, software, and analytics capability to create “a cloud-based digital solution for the real-time fleet management of EVs,” according to the press release.

The new solution…