Working as an Amazon supply driver has develop into an entire lot higher for many who are actually behind the wheel of a Rivian-made supply van. We’ve seen some movies from drivers themselves displaying off the EDV’s multitude of distinctive options, however now they’ve caught the eye of CNBC, which adopted one driver round to see what it’s prefer to function one among these EVs for a day. 

There are actually over 1,000 Amazon EDVs in service after having been initially rolled out in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas Metropolis, San Diego, St. Louis, Seattle, Nashville, Las Vegas and Phoenix, amongst others (already as much as 100 cities, in line with Amazon). The rollout started in July and continued by way of 2022, representing a small fraction of the order it positioned with Rivian for 100,000 vans to be delivered by 2030.

In lots of of those cities, in the event you ordered one thing for Christmas, it might have been delivered to you in a brand new EDV. And regardless that Amazon’s objective with the introduction of electrical transport and supply automobiles is to utterly eradicate its carbon emissions by 2040, it actually appears to be making drivers’ lives an entire lot higher.

Amazon is understood for the customarily harsh working situations that it topics its workers to, and this consists of supply drivers too. Nevertheless, with the quantity of tech and funky options that the van has, it appears the e-commerce big is attempting to vary that notion, regardless that it would not instantly rent the drivers – they’re really employed by third social gathering supply corporations that are subcontracted by Amazon.

Based mostly on this video and others that we’ve seen, driving an EDV for a whole day is an entire lot much less traumatic than doing the identical in a extra conventional van. The EDV has a lot better visibility, cameras throughout, energetic and passive security techniques, in addition to comfort options equivalent to an computerized cargo space door that opens while you put the car within the park place.