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Amazon unveils its Rivian-made electric delivery van

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Many thought this was vaporware, guess not.

See Rivian's First Amazon Electric Delivery Van Out Driving: People React


It's packed full of high-tech safety and design features.
Amazon News provides us with an up-close look at the upcoming Rivian electric delivery van, inside and out. The brief video gives us a much better idea of the details surrounding this future electric van. We also get to see the Amazon van out driving for the first time. However, the most interesting part of this video is that it looks at the van through the reactions of Amazon employees and delivery drivers seeing it for the first time.

Amazon made The Climate Pledge, which commits to "net-zero carbon by 2040." The company hopes to have 10,000 electric delivery trucks on the road by 2022 and 100,000 by 2030. It ordered 100,000 future electric delivery vans from Rivian and additional vehicles from other makers. Now, only a year after the Pledge, Amazon can finally reveal the Vivian van to the world. Director of Amazon's Global Fleet and Products Ross Rachey shared:

"When we set out to create our first customized electric delivery vehicle with Rivian, we knew that it needed to far surpass any other delivery vehicle."

"We combined Riv