Rivian’s first non-Amazon van customer is HelloFresh

Food-cot company Helophrash has added 70 All-Vedutin Rivian vans to its fleet, the first big customer to buy a commercial EV since completing an exclusive deal with Automaker Amazon.

70 all the electronic commercial van presents about a quarter of the vented vans, which has already helped the company to save the company approximately 20,000 gallons of petrol, According to a blog post The company posted on Wednesday. Helfresh said that electric transfer had reduced its CO2 emission output by 200 tonnes.

Rivian, which produces and sells two vans, has sought to diversify its customer base since ending its exclusive deal with Amazon in November 2023. However the automaker did not officially do Open the commercial van fleet business To other companies until February 2021. The EV Maker spent the year to prepare a commercial fleet line for a wide range of businesses, which included creating services infrastructure, creating digital infrastructure and collecting reactions through pilots from fleet, Rivian said in the past.

Rivian has seen several performances Trial with potential fleet customersThe However, the Helpheres first publicly declared themselves as customers and incorporated the vans into a fleet.

Since Rivian works to add more commercial customers, it is still producing vans for Amazon. Rivian began production in commercial vans in 2021, two years after the announcement of Amazon, it ordered 5 vehicles as part of an attempt to reduce its climate effect. Amazon had already invested deeply in Rivian when it struck the exclusive agreement for commercial vans. Just seven months ago, a led by e-commerce giant Round in investment of $ 700 million In the Rivian language.

Until February, Amazon’s 20,000 commercial vans were produced by Rivian in its fleet.