Amazon has opened a micromobility hub in Berlin for e-cargo bike deliveries.

The electric cargo bikes are part of a €400m investment to help electrify and decarbonise Amazon’s German transportation network.

More Amazon customer orders in Berlin will now be delivered with e-cargo bikes from the micromobility hub close to Alexanderplatz.

Electric bikes from manufacturer Mubea (www.mubea.com) will deliver more than 1.5 million parcels per year across Berlin. As part of Amazon’s €400m commitment to electrify and decarbonise its German transportation network, the bikes are now expected to provide deliveries for dozens of areas in Berlin.

The new Berlin hub will be set up centrally in a car park at the Alexa shopping centre near Alexanderplatz. Micromobility hubs are physical centres within urban areas where packages are loaded onto delivery vehicles for the final leg of their journey. In Europe’s traditionally dense cities, these hubs enable Amazon to operate new delivery methods, such as e-cargo bikes and on-foot deliveries, to bring packages to customers with fewer emissions.

Micromobility hubs help Amazon further reduce the number of traditional delivery vans on the road, alleviating traffic congestion in city centres and improving air quality.

In addition to the new hub, Amazon’s partners will also deliver by e-cargo bike from its delivery station in Tegel, which helps Amazon deliver to customers in the Reinickendorf district. In 2023, Amazon had more than 50 micromobility hubs in over 40 cities across Europe, up from more than 20 in 2022.

In Germany, Amazon and its partners deliver by e-cargo bike in six cities: Munich, Freiburg, Koblenz, Aachen, Essen and Berlin, while in Düsseldorf packages are also delivered by walker. In 2023, Amazon’s delivery partners delivered more than 50 million packages in Germany using electric and manual vehicles, such as electric vans, e-cargo bikes and pushcarts.

“It’s a great next step for us to build out e-bike deliveries, especially in Berlin,” said Rocco Bräuniger, country manager of Amazon in Germany. “This way, we ensure a timely delivery for our customers and reduce traffic within Berlin at the same time. Reducing our delivery-related emissions plays an important role on our path to being carbon neutral by 2040.”

To advance the electrification and decarbonisation of its transportation network, Amazon’s delivery partners have more than 1200 electric delivery vans in use in Germany. Last year, 300 electric delivery vans from Rivian were added to the fleet near Munich, Berlin and Düsseldorf, and Amazon has invested in thousands of electric charging points across its facilities in Germany.

Amazon (www.aboutamazon.eu) is the world’s largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy, and in Europe it supports nearly 1.7GW of capacity across six offshore wind farms that, once fully operational, are expected to produce enough energy to power 1.8 million average European homes.