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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Sarah Butler

Amazon to up electric fleet by thousands across UK and continent

Amazon employees wearing shirts with '100% electric' on the back
Amazon said it hoped increasing its electric fleet would encourage other retailers to do the same. Photograph: Jim Vondruska/Reuters

Amazon is investing more than €1bn (£880m) to add thousands more electric lorries, vans and cargo bikes to its sprawling fleet of delivery vehicles across Europe over the next five years.

The online retailer said it would invest £300m in the UK, where it plans to have as many as 700 electric HGVs by 2025, up from just five today, and more than triple its fleet of electric vans to 10,000 across the continent.

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