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The Hellofresh meal has added 70 completely electric Rivian vans to its fleet, the first main customer to buy commercial EVs since the car manufacturer has ended the exclusive contract with Amazon.
70 completely electric commercial vans represent almost one quarter of the Hellofresh fleet, which has already helped to save about 20,000 gasoline gallons, According to the blog post The company posted on Wednesday. Hellofresh said the transition to electric effect reduced the CO2 emission output by 200 tons.
Rivian, which produces and sells two vans, has wanted to diversify his user base since he completed his exclusivity agreement with Amazon in November 2023, but the car manufacturer is not officially official Open your commercial job out of the fleet to other companies until February 2025. EV manufacturer spent a year preparing a commercial fleet line for a wider part of the company, which included the construction of service infrastructure, digital infrastructure and collecting feedback through pilots from the fleet customers, Rivian said in the past.
Rivian was observed as he performs numerous trials with potential fleet customers. However, Hellofresh was the first to publicly declare himself a buyer and installed a van in the fleet.
As Rivian works to add more commercial customers, he still produces a van for Amazon. Rivian began to produce commercial vans in 2021, two years after Amazon announced that he had ordered 100,000 vehicles as part of the effort to reduce his climate effect. Amazon was already deeply invested in Rivian when he reached an agreement on exclusivity for commercial vans. Only seven months before, the giant of the e-commerce has led Investments in the amount of $ 700 million in the waterfront.
Since February, Amazon has had 20,000 commercial vans that Rivian has produced in his fleet.