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New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has collected $9m (£6.6m) in unpaid fines from Amazon, which has been violating clean air regulations by leaving engines running on its parked vehicles (www.nyc.gov)
submitted 15 hours ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world 41 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

i honestly thought amazon went electric everywhere but good for him

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 39 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Maybe on their vehicles but there’s an absolute ton of contractors doing last mile in whatever they can find.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 9 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] French75@slrpnk.net 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 10 hours ago

Rivian is already selling to other companies. Amazon could have very well paid them to remain exclusive until they completed their fleet.

[–] Denvil@piefed.world 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I think you may have replied to the wrong person.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I think it's to suggest that this fine won't do anything to motivate Amazon to go full electric.

[–] Denvil@piefed.world 1 points 2 hours ago

That is what I was suggesting

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 10 hours ago

It will, along with many many other factors that are already driving the transition.