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Looks like Amazon is also dragging its feet on moving to an all-electric local delivery fleet: https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/13/rivian_amazon_electric_va

Looks like Amazon is also dragging its feet on moving to an all-electric local delivery fleet: https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/13/rivian_amazon_electric_van/ https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/13/rivian_amazon_electri... Tesla and Ford seem to have some kind of commercial delivery e-van in the works, though. The net-zero claims are mostly nonsense in any case -it means continuing to use fossil fuels for jet transport and shipping/trucking while buying 'offsets' in a dubious and unscientific carbon-trading scheme to reach so-called 'net-zero'. Such offsets don't remove any of the fossil fuel-sourced carbon pumped into the atmosphere on anything like a long-term basis, and are best classified as a fraudulent program pushed by fossil fuel interests in the name of greenwashing their business.

asdff 3y ago
Airlines seem to be more in favor of investing in biofuels for jets than to have them use some other energy source. A review: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenrg.2020.00110/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenrg.2020.0011...
- jabl 3y ago
  To be honest, liquid hydrocarbons are a very good energy source when weight and volume is important, like aircraft. Battery-electric planes will likely become a thing for short range flights, but I'm having a hard time seeing how anything like the current level of long range flights would be compatible with a "zero carbon" society. Biofuels and synthetic fuels will allow a limited amount of long range flights though, so I don't think we'd need to give up on those entirely.