Bengaluru, June 27th, 2019: Flipkart today announced nation-wide plans to introduce Electric Vehicles (EVs) for its last mile deliveries. The announcement is part of Flipkart's sustainability commitment to build technologies for solving crucial environment and civic issues.
Flipkart aims to introduce electric vehicles in its last-mile delivery network in a phased manner. The aim is to replace nearly 40% of its existing last mile fleet of delivery vans with EVs by March 2020, starting with nearly 160 EVans to be deployed across cities by the end of 2019. Flipkart will also be working closely with various manufacturers to get the right designs suitable for e-commerce deliveries.
Implementation and Impact
In the last 6 months (prior to the release), Flipkart had conducted multiple pilots for EV deployment and witnessed impressive performance results. It is also setting up the necessary charging infrastructure at its hubs to deploy EVs at large scale. These efforts will also help in reducing Flipkart's carbon emissions by over 50%.
At present (June 2019), Flipkart has already deployed:
8 EVans in Hyderabad.
10 EVans in New Delhi.
30 e-bikes in Bangalore.
Amitesh Jha, Senior Vice-President, Ekart and Marketplace at Flipkart, stated, "We see tremendous growth opportunity in electric freight mobility from a greener supply chain perspective, which will play a key role in building a robust supply chain for the future. These efforts will help us meaningfully contribute towards electric mobility by reducing our dependence on conventional power sources, while bringing cost efficiencies for the business."
Kalyan Krishnamurthy, Group CEO, Flipkart, said, "Our vision is to replace a significant portion of our last-mile delivery with EVs in the coming years and also contribute towards clean and sustainable mobility. Our team is working with local ecosystem partners to help them co-design concepts for electric vehicles best suited for the growing e-commerce industry."
About Flipkart
The Flipkart Group includes group companies Flipkart, Myntra, Jabong, and PhonePe. Launched in 2007, Flipkart has a registered customer base of over 150 million, offering over 80 million products across 80+ categories. Flipkart is known for pioneering services such as Cash on Delivery, No Cost EMI and easy returns.
For more information, please contact: Ashish Kulshrestha - ashish.kp@flipkart.com Sheetal Singh- sheetal.s@flipkart.com
