If you Make Amazon PAY Fines then HOW will they Trickle down Their ~~Layoffs!~~ ~~Hiring!~~ Wealth?
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this post was submitted on 26 May 2026
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i honestly thought amazon went electric everywhere but good for him
Maybe on their vehicles but there’s an absolute ton of contractors doing last mile in whatever they can find.
They have A LOT of them but really only ~20% of their fleet. Hopefully this will encourage them to accelerate that transition. There's also "Amazon Flex" which hires contractors like Uber.
I doubt that Amazon is slow rolling it. Demand for EV trucks is insane. I was working on procuring some in a different industry a couple years ago, and we just could not get them in any meaningful quantity. Lead times were years out. I think we actually got one during the time I was on the project.
Rivian is already selling to other companies. Amazon could have very well paid them to remain exclusive until they completed their fleet.
To hear my brother who works at a legacy manufacturer, nobody wants them so they’re not worth building. 🙈
Amazon made 80 billion in operational income (after all expenses, pre-tax) in 2025, this is 0.001% of that. It's like fining a person making $31k a year $3.10.
Any fines that go towards the people are good fines for a company like Amazon, but it's not enough
I think you may have replied to the wrong person.
I think it's to suggest that this fine won't do anything to motivate Amazon to go full electric.
That is what I was suggesting
It will, along with many many other factors that are already driving the transition.
Good. Fuck amazon. Fine them harder.
Every single freight company does this. Every single one.
That's why it's so fucking stupid that the USPS scrapped their plans for an electric fleet. Delivery vehicles are perfect for electric
Cops too, they even add a larger fuel tank to keep the engine blowing smog 24/7
Good.
- My Name is Mamdani.
Good. We could easily decrease our fuel usage by a double-digit percentage just by minimizing all the idle time of vehicles whether it be police, construction workers, delivery drivers, or just soccer moms or people sitting in their car in a parking lot.
Wtf is with all the people just sitting in their cars staring at their phones with the engine running
There's someone virtually everywhere I go. I don't think it used to be this common...
I walk laps around the parking lot during my lunch time at work and soooooo many people go out to their car and sit there with the engine running. For no fucking reason. Like if it's too hot or cold, don't go to your car. They do it when it's nice out too. Insanity. Crack a window if you need a breeze or something. So dumb
But the woke outside air has chemtrails that turn the frogs gay! Gotta have my murican A/C.
Smh my head
School buses! Ours are supposed to have a limit of a few minutes but no one follows it.
Great: Amazon has been using EVs for their delivery vans near me, maybe this will push their adoption in more places!
The Daily Show did a report about it and idling fees are reported by citizens which then get % of the fine. Are some people about the get nice payouts?