https://www.treehugger.com/cars/ikea-plans-100-electric-home-delivery-key-cities-2020.html IKEA plans 100% electric home delivery in key cities by 2020 September 21, 2018 Sami Grover
[image https://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2017/09/IKEA-electric-car-adoption.jpg.860x0_q70_crop-scale.jpg Ikea rapid charger photo CC BY-ND 2.0 Northern Ireland Executive ] That will put it well on the road toward its target of 100% electric global deliveries by 2025. Ignore the picture. I'm going to go ahead and assume that Ikea isn't planning to use Nissan Leafs to achieve this, but the Swedish home furnishings giant is apparently planning a rather incredible feat of 100% electric vehicle home deliveries by 2020, initially targeting five prioritized inner cities (Amsterdam, Los Angeles, New York, Paris and Shanghai). It's just one part of a broader commitment to sustainability that has already seen the company rethink its previous contributions to throwaway culture, cut back on meat sales, and commit to 100% electric deliveries by 2025. Crucially, the effort will also see the company flex its muscles in terms of influencing consumer and employee transportation choices—pledging to provide "access to charging stations for EVs across all IKEA Group touchpoints across 30 markets, such as stores, offices, and distribution centres by 2020." Given that stores like Target are also pledging major investments in electric vehicle charging infrastructure in the next few years, and that electrification of road freight continues to march forward, I'm quite excited to see what the collective weight of corporate activism can achieve on transportation. While we environmentalists often (and sometimes rightly) like to rag on capitalism, it's hard to argue against the fact that corporations have played a major role in mainstreaming renewables and pushing back against anti-climate politics in the last decade. Maybe we'll see a similar effort on our roads. I'm not sure I'll be counting on the big box stores to push the cycling agenda quite as strongly, though. We might be on our own on that one... [© treehugger.com] https://www.electricvehiclesresearch.com/articles/15428/ikea-group-commits-to-zero-emissions-targets-for-home-delivery IKEA Group commits to zero emissions targets for home delivery September 25, 2018 Aim for 100% of home deliveries by electric vehicles (EV) or other zero-emission solutions by 2025 (aim of 25% by 2020). Acce... https://idtxs3.imgix.net/si/40000/1D/D0.jpg?w=800 + https://electricvehiclesresearch.com/articles/15417/worlds-largest-deal-for-driverless-grocery-deliveries World's largest deal for driverless grocery deliveries September 21, 2018 Autonomous delivery vehicle (ADV) company udelv, has announced it has signed a landmark deal with Narnia Road and Esperanza Real Estate Investments, to supply Oklahoma City's largest local chain of grocery stores with self-driving delivery vans, the first grocery chain in the world to make such a large scale ADV investment ... The agreement, which will see udelv supply supermarkets ... https://idtxs3.imgix.net/si/40000/1D/A2.jpg?w=800 For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/archive/ {brucedp.neocities.org} -- Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
