Amazon now has more than 50,000 electric delivery vans in its global operations — halfway towards Amazon’s goal of 100,000 electric delivery vehicles on the road by 2030. Together, these vans delivered more than 2.4 billion packages to customers last year with zero-exhaust emissions.
The milestone reflects years of investment in partnerships, infrastructure, and innovation across the company's worldwide transportation network — including significant progress across Europe, where Amazon and its delivery partners had more than 10,000 electric delivery vans on the road at the end of 2025.
In 2019, Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge, with a goal to reach net-zero carbon across its operations by 2040. Transforming how packages move from warehouses to doorsteps is central to delivering on that goal. Amazon's approach rests on three pillars: making operations as efficient as possible, electrifying where it can, and investing in lower-carbon fuels in hard-to-abate sectors.
Electrifying the last mile — with European partners
Europe's electric fleet is growing fast. Last year, Amazon announced its single largest European electric vehicle deployment — nearly 5,000 Mercedes-Benz electric vans joining the network across Austria, France, Germany, Italy, and the UK. The vans are manufactured in Germany and Spain. This collaboration reflects Amazon's approach of working with European industry leaders to build a more sustainable delivery fleet — and builds on the company's €1 billion investment, announced in 2022, to electrify and decarbonise its European transportation network.
To keep electric vehicles moving, Amazon has built tens of thousands of charging points across its facilities globally, including thousands across Europe — infrastructure that the company hopes will help demonstrate what's possible and encourage broader investment in public charging networks.
Smaller vehicles, big impact
In many European cities — with their narrow streets, pedestrian zones, and low-emission areas — electric cargo bikes, electric mopeds, and pushcarts for on-foot deliveries are often the the best way to reach customers quickly and safely, with zero-exhaust emissions.
Since launching the first electric cargo bike delivery in 2017, Amazon has expanded the fleet of small electric vehicles and pushcarts to more than 70 micromobility hubs across more than 50 European cities. Amazon and its delivery partners have delivered more than 100 million deliveries across Europe — and more than 30 million in 2025 alone — using these smaller electric vehicles and on-foot methods.
These deliveries produce no exhaust emissions and significantly reduce noise pollution compared to traditional delivery vans. To date, they have avoided more than 17,000 metric tons of carbon emissions — equivalent to taking more than 3,900 petrol-powered passenger cars off the road for a year. In cities with historic centres and limited traffic zones, they're not just an alternative — they're often the better solution.
Scaling electric heavy trucks with Mercedes-Benz
Electrification isn't limited to delivery vehicles. Amazon is also scaling electric heavy goods vehicles in its middle-mile network — the routes between Amazon facilities like fulfilment centres, sort centres, and delivery stations." The company has more than 100 electric heavy goods vehicles operational across Europe, and is on track to more than double that fleet by the end of 2026.
Moving smarter: sea, rail, and high-speed trains
Electrification is one part of the story. Another is moving smarter. By stocking products closer to customers, Amazon's regionalised network means items move through fewer facilities and travel fewer miles before reaching the customer's door. Amazon now moves products across Europe via more than 500 sea and rail routes — twice as many loads as three years ago — reducing carbon on those routes by almost 50% compared to road transport. In 2025, more than 35% of inventory transfers on lanes exceeding 500 km were performed using sea or rail transport, and 170 million packages travelled by sea and rail across Europe, a 45% increase year on year.
Ocean and rail transportation have a lower carbon footprint than airfreight. In 2025, ocean freight accounted for 97% of Amazon's imported transoceanic shipments for its retail operations, up from 90% in 2024. In France, Amazon launched high-speed rail parcel transportation using the TGV network — a first for the company. Over half a million packages travelled by high-speed rail in 2025.
Investing in lower-carbon fuels
From an e-cargo bike in Barcelona to a 40-tonne truck on the motorway, Amazon is scaling electric vehicles across its network. But for sectors where electrification isn’t currently a viable solution — like ocean shipping and aviation — lower carbon fuels are a critical bridge.
In 2025, Amazon increased its use of lower-carbon fuels across air, ocean, and ground transport — procuring more than 14 million gallons of blended sustainable aviation fuel for its direct operations. Many of these fuels are still nascent in the industry, but Amazon's investments send important demand signals to manufacturers, suppliers, and other businesses.
What comes next
With 50,000 electric delivery vans on the road and counting, electric heavy goods vehicles doubling across Europe, and micromobility hubs transforming urban delivery in more than 50 cities, the future of logistics is taking shape. It will be more sustainable and more connected — built one innovation at a time.
