Amazon Wants To Buy ‘thousands’ Of Rivian’s Pedal-assist Cargo Bikes

Amazon and Rivian are backmost together again.

The e-commerce elephantine is collaborating pinch Rivian’s Also spinoff connected a custom-designed, pedal-assisted, four-wheel cargo bike. The motorcycle would apt beryllium based connected nan TM-Q quad conveyance that was unveiled by Also coming successful San Francisco. Amazon says it wants to grow its fleet of micromobility vehicles pinch “thousands of quads” that it will deploy crossed Europe and nan US.

The woody signals nan adjacent shape successful nan business betwixt Amazon and Rivian, which worked together connected nan EDV electrical van for galore years. For respective years, Rivian’s van was exclusive to Amazon. But aft that exclusivity ended, Rivian said it would waste nan van to immoderate commercialized fleet proprietor who was interested.

“Micromobility solutions for illustration pedal-assist e-cargo quads let america to quickly present to customers successful dense, municipality cities, while helping trim postulation and noise,” said Emily Barber, Director of Amazon’s Global Fleet, successful a statement. “Similar to our Rivian EDV partnership, moving pinch ALSO provides an opportunity to proceed to innovate successful this space, building connected our transportation logistics experience, paired pinch their precocious technology, safety, and capacity features.”

Amazon has been utilizing electric cargo bikes for deliveries successful cities crossed nan US and Canada. The bikes are accommodate astatine navigating dense cities wherever curb abstraction is astatine a premium.

The Also TM-Q shares galore of nan aforesaid features arsenic the TM-B two-wheeled e-bike, including pedal-by-wire exertion and removable artillery that doubles arsenic a mobile powerfulness bank.