And I’m in a city with multiple Amazon distribution centers all around it. I haven’t seen an Amazon vehicle other than these Rivian ones in years.
That’s how anecdotal evidence works, it’s useless in reality, but it’s what we’ve experienced so it must be true, just from our small perspective.
This conversation did get me to do a basic search though for some hard numbers, albeit generic and round. Amazon placed the original order for 100,000 vehicles in 2020 and started receiving them in July 2022, with a goal for complete fulfillment and apparently a net-zero carbon goal by 2030. So if we take 100,000 vehicles in 8 years that comes to 12,500 per year. Let’s round down to 1,000 per month to account for initial production ramp and just math simplicity… That would give us about 44,000 as of March 2026, roughly. Granted… That’s presumably worldwide as well, at least internationally somewhat, I know they’re also used in at least Canada.
I also looked up a couple articles. The Rivian order of 100k is supposed to complete in 2030, but it says that the Amazon net-zero goal is for 2040, not 2030.
And I’m in a city with multiple Amazon distribution centers all around it. I haven’t seen an Amazon vehicle other than these Rivian ones in years.
That’s how anecdotal evidence works, it’s useless in reality, but it’s what we’ve experienced so it must be true, just from our small perspective.
This conversation did get me to do a basic search though for some hard numbers, albeit generic and round. Amazon placed the original order for 100,000 vehicles in 2020 and started receiving them in July 2022, with a goal for complete fulfillment and apparently a net-zero carbon goal by 2030. So if we take 100,000 vehicles in 8 years that comes to 12,500 per year. Let’s round down to 1,000 per month to account for initial production ramp and just math simplicity… That would give us about 44,000 as of March 2026, roughly. Granted… That’s presumably worldwide as well, at least internationally somewhat, I know they’re also used in at least Canada.
I also looked up a couple articles. The Rivian order of 100k is supposed to complete in 2030, but it says that the Amazon net-zero goal is for 2040, not 2030.
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/transportation/everything-you-need-to-know-about-amazons-electric-delivery-vans-from-rivian