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- rivian@lemmy.world
Amazon has a plan to deploy 100,000 electric vans to its delivery fleet by 2030. At the rate it’s going, that might happen a little sooner. On Thursday, it announced that it now has 10,000 Rivian electric delivery vans in service—up from 5,000 earlier this July.
I’m not clear on the owner, does Amazon own them or does a third party contractor that they subside to?
https://jacobin.com/2023/08/unionized-amazon-delivery-drivers-subcontractors-service-partner-working-conditions
They are custom vans from Rivian, so I wouldn’t imagine those wouldn’t make sense be owned by a third party. But maybe they still are for union busting reasons as mentioned in the article?
https://youtu.be/3CWCqJl0BEs https://youtu.be/gGrKVpYj_y4
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They definitely force third parties to have Amazon vans. I was trying to find a news article about a lady’s house getting smashed into and her fight to get anyone to compensate her.
This isn’t that article, but gets to the point anyway
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-delivery-service-partners-contract-van-repairs-rivian-2023-5