Meal-Kit Company Hellofresh has added 70 All-Electric Rivian Vans to its first Major Customer to Buy the Commercial Evs Since Since the Automaker Ended Its Exclusive Deal with Amazon.
The 70 ALL-Electric Commercial Vans REPRESENT NEARLY One Quarter of Hellofresh’s fleet, which has already helped the company save an estimated 20,000 gallons of gasoline, According to a blog post The company Posted Wednsday. Hellofresh said the shift to electric has been reduced its co2 emissions output by 200 tonnes.
Rivian, which produces and sells two van sizes, have wanted to diversify its customer base since mind ending its exclusivity degra Open Up Its Commercial Van Fleet Business To other companies until February 2025. The Ev Maker Spent that Gap Year Preparation a Commercial Fleet Line for A BrowATH OF Busineses, which inclined building out Service Infrastructure, Digital Infrastructure, and Collecting feedback via pilots from fleet customers, rivian has said in the past.
Rivian has been spotted performing a number of Trials with potential fleet customersHowever, hellofresh is the first to publicly declare its its customer and incorporate the vans into a fleet.
As rivian works to add more commercial customers, it is still producing vans for amazon. Rivian Started Producting The Commercial Vans in 2021, two years after amazon announced it had ordered 100,000 of the vehicles as part of an effort to reduce its Climate to reduce impact. Amazon was alredy deeply investment in rivian when it struruck the Exclusiveness Agreement for the Commercial Vans. Just Seven Months Before, The e-Commerce Giant Led A $ 700 Million Investment Round in rivian.
As of February, Amazon Had 20,000 Commercial Vans Produced by Rivian in its fleet.