Amazon unveils its Rivian-made electric delivery van with cool interior
Amazon is unveiling today its electric delivery van made by Rivian, and we get to see its cool interior for the first time.
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Tesla co-founder JB Straubel receives backing from Amazon for battery material recycling venture
Tesla co-founder JB Straubel has received backing from Amazon for his battery material recycling venture: Redwood Materials.
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Amazon has made several electric vehicle orders lately to build a fleet of electric delivery vehicles, and today, it is adding trucks from Lion Electric to the list.
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Amazon has placed an order of 1,800 electric vans with Mercedes-Benz, adding to the 100,000 electric delivery vans it has on order with Rivian.
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Online retail giant Amazon has announced a $2 billion Climate Pledge Fund, a venture capital fund, in order to support green energy developments to fight climate change.
Closer look at Rivian’s electric delivery van for Amazon
Amazon released a closer look at its upcoming new electric delivery van built by Rivian, who is supposed to produce 100,000 of them.
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Watch Rivian open frunk of electric pickup truck through Alexa voice command
Rivian and Amazon are finding more ways to collaborate with the R1T electric pickup having Alexa support, as demonstrated at an Amazon event today.
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Amazon announces three new wind farms as report questions company’s clean energy commitment
Amazon announced three new wind farms on Monday as part of its long-term commitment to 100 percent renewable energy throughout its global infrastructure. But a separate report the same day questions that commitment, while probing the e-commerce giant’s connection to Big Oil.
Kia becomes latest automaker to partner with Amazon for electric car charging stations
Kia announced that it is partnering with Amazon to sell and install electric car charging stations — becoming the second automaker to get onboard with the online retail giant becoming a charging station hub.
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Electric pickup truck startup Rivian confirms $700 million round of funding led by Amazon
After rumors earlier this week that GM and Amazon were interested in Rivian, an electric pickup and SUV maker, the company has now confirmed that they are closing a $700 million round of funding led by Amazon.
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Tesla is working with Amazon to deploy more energy storage at distribution centers
Amazon is turning to Tesla in order to deploy energy storage capacity at their distribution centers.
After a deal to add Tesla Powerpacks to a UK facility earlier this year, now Amazon is working with Tesla again at another distribution center.
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Amazon is going to sell electric car chargers with installation as a turn-key solution
Amazon sells pretty much everything and it already sells electric car home chargers, but now the company also wants to get involved in the installation process with a full “turn-key” solution – starting with the Audi e-tron quattro.
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Amazon is buying a fleet of all-electric vans from Mercedes-Benz
Logistics companies from around the world are starting to look at electric powertrains for their delivery vehicles in order to reduce costs.
Now Amazon is getting on board with a fleet of all-electric vans from Mercedes-Benz.
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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos inaugurates an impressive new wind farm
Jeff Bezos atop a wind farm breaking it in with a bottle of bubbly is pretty intense. Amazon’s founder made his way up one of more than 100 new wind turbines in Texas celebrating a major renewable energy project coming online.
The 253-megawatt “Amazon Wind Farm Texas” in Scurry County is part Amazon’s long-term goal to reach 100% renewable energy. As of the end of 2016, the company was beyond 40% – and expects to break 50% before the end of 2017.
Tesla is now on Amazon: you can buy accessories and parts, but not the actual vehicles
Today, Amazon announced a new tool called ‘Amazon Vehicles‘, which it describes as “a car research destination and automotive community”. It looks like the vehicles are actually listed for sales like you can see above, but you can really only “add them to your garage” and it will instead suggest compatible accessories and parts.
You can now add a Tesla Model X, a Tesla Model S, or even a Tesla Roadster to your garage and explore the suggestions.
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Green Deals: Amazon’s best-selling outdoor solar light $12 or 2 for $24 (Reg. $14/ea.), more
Patozon (100% positive feedback from 28,000+) via Amazon offers the Mpow 8-LED Solar Outdoor Light for $13.99. Applying coupon code XFMNHHOW drops the final price to $11.99 Prime shipped. If you buy two the price will go to $22.99 (Reg. $30) with promo code HV5Z3B9O. That’s up to $7 off the regular going rate and the best offer available.
Mpow’s 8 LED Wireless Outdoor Lights are perfect for easily illuminating a path or walkway. Because it uses solar power, you won’t have to purchase batteries to keep things running. The built-in sensor can detect movement from up to 26-feet away and a waterproof design protects the light from damage. This is the #1 best-selling patio light at Amazon where it has collected a 4.5/5 star rating from over 1,100 reviewers.
Today’s Top Green Deals:
- Rescue 50-Gallon Rain Barrel: $100 (Reg. $120) | Home Depot
- Nitecore i2 Rechargeable Battery Charger: $11 (Reg. $15) | Amazon
- Greenes 4-x-4-foot Cedar Raised Garden Bed: $30 (Reg. $50) | Ace
- Karcher 1,800 PSI Electric Pressure Washer: $170 (Reg. $197) | Home Depot
- VTech AA Rechargeable Batteries w/ Charger: $5 (Reg. $10+) | Newegg Flash
Tesla’s VP of Finance and Worldwide Controller leaves for Amazon
In just the past few weeks, Tesla lost 2 Vice-Presidents. Last week, we reported on Tesla’s Vice President of Global Communications Ricardo Reyes leaving the company, and now we learn that the automaker’s VP of Finance and Worldwide Controller is leaving to return to Amazon as VP of Finance.
Michael Zanoni joined Tesla from Amazon in 2014.
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Watch a Tesla Model S owner talk to his car with Amazon Echo [Video]
Software developer MOSAIC put together a quick demo of their latest project; a new ‘Alexa Skill’ that lets you connect your Tesla Model S to your Amazon Echo in order to perform the same functions the Tesla App can do, but through Alexa’s voice commands.
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