{"id":17263,"date":"2025-01-14T09:37:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T08:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/amazon-makes-largest-ever-uk-order-of-electric-trucks-to-cut-carbon-emissions\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T09:37:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T08:37:34","slug":"amazon-makes-largest-ever-uk-order-of-electric-trucks-to-cut-carbon-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/amazon-makes-largest-ever-uk-order-of-electric-trucks-to-cut-carbon-emissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon makes \u2018largest ever\u2019 UK order of electric trucks to cut carbon emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Online retailer will also begin its first large-scale deliveries by train and trial heavy post-style carts<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2025\/jan\/14\/jd-sports-warns-lower-profits-pound-rises-pressure-reeves-government-bonds-business-live\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Amazon is to deploy nearly 150 electric heavy goods vehicles as well as piling packages on to trains and post-style trolleys in an effort to reduce the carbon footprint of delivering goods in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The tech company said it had bought more than 140 electric Mercedes-Benz heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) and eight Volvo lorries \u2013 which it says is the UK\u2019s biggest order of electric trucks \u2013 that can take loads of up to 40 tonnes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/14\/amazon-uk-electric-trucks-carbon-emissions-train\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/332b2c76dceb71a2972b7401296adc410cbdf53c\/250_0_5619_3375\/master\/5619.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9fbfc970b5dc6a367e9a5e8044110158\" title=\"Amazon makes \u2018largest ever\u2019 UK order of electric trucks to cut carbon emissions\" \/>Online retailer will also begin its first large-scale deliveries by train and trial heavy post-style carts<br \/>\nBusiness live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nAmazon is to deploy nearly 150 electric heavy goods vehicles as well as piling packages on to trains and post-style trolleys in an effort to reduce the carbon footprint of delivering goods in the UK.<br \/>\nThe tech company said it had bought more than 140 electric Mercedes-Benz heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) and eight Volvo lorries \u2013 which it says is the UK\u2019s biggest order of electric trucks \u2013 that can take loads of up to 40 tonnes. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online retailer will also begin its first large-scale deliveries by train and trial heavy post-style carts Business live \u2013 latest updates Amazon is to deploy nearly 150 electric heavy goods vehicles as well as piling packages on to trains and post-style trolleys in an effort to reduce the carbon footprint of delivering goods in the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/amazon-makes-largest-ever-uk-order-of-electric-trucks-to-cut-carbon-emissions\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon makes \u2018largest ever\u2019 UK order of electric trucks to cut carbon emissions<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17263"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}