Swedish EV trucking company Einride has deployed 75 manual electric heavy duty trucks in Sweden. Amazon‘s Relay Freight Network, the cargo EV startup’s expansion into the U.S. ahead of its planned initial public offering, and efforts to expand emissions-free electrification technology across Amazon’s logistics network and beyond last-mile delivery.
Einride trucks will support Amazon’s middle-mile network as part of Amazon Relay, the company’s Uber-like app for truck drivers that lets them book and transport Amazon packages, a service Amazon launched in 2017. Trucks operating in the middle mile transport orders between Amazon’s fulfillment centers, sorting centers, aviation facilities, and last-mile delivery stations.
Einride EV is projected to be able to travel up to 3 million miles of electric transportation annually with zero tailpipe emissions. Einride will also support charging infrastructure across five locations. Einride’s proprietary optimization software, Saga AI, is also used to manage EV execution for some Amazon loads, including charging planning.
“Our partnership with Amazon is further validation of Einride’s technology and strategic vision,” Einride CEO Roosve Charli said in a LinkedIn post on Tuesday announcing the partnership. “By deploying our intelligent platform in one of the world’s most sophisticated logistics networks, we continue to build industry-leading operational expertise while accelerating our growth.”
Einride has been named to CNBC’s Disruptor 50 list for three consecutive years, ranking #24 in 2025.
Amazon has been expanding its freight business over the years to build an end-to-end logistics network and electrify it at the same time.
Amazon announced that it will have more than 70,000 trailers in its fleet as of mid-2025.
Amazon announces partnership RivianThis includes investing in EV startups in 2019 under then-CEO Jeff Bezos, with the goal of adding a total of 100,000 electric delivery vehicles by 2030. In early 2025, Amazon Europe announced that it had ordered 200 EV big rigs from Mercedes, its largest order ever. In 2024, Amazon deployed its then-largest EV fleet of 50 Volvo trucks to a U.S. cargo market connected to a port in Southern California.
“This development is an important step forward in addressing one of the most difficult challenges we face in decarbonizing our transportation networks: electrifying heavy-duty trucking,” an Amazon spokesperson said in a statement about the Einride deal. “We are excited to continue working with Einride and learning from these operations as trucks hit the road.”
Although Amazon’s deal does not include self-driving trucking, 2026 is expected to be a key year for Einride and its EV trucking rivals, including Wabi, Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI, in expanding their self-driving operations in the United States.
Einride recently received approval from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to operate autonomous vehicles on public roads in Texas, the fifth state in the United States. Plans for driverless trucks in Austin, Texas, follow similar approvals for roads in Arizona, Colorado, South Carolina and Tennessee. Einride currently operates GE Appliances’ first commercial autonomous route daily out of the town of Selmer, Tennessee, where GE makes refrigerators, but Charli said he expects Texas to become a “center of excellence for autonomous freight operations in the United States.”
Einride has announced its intention to go public through a SPAC. Legato Merger Corp. III The deal is expected to raise more than $300 million in the first half of this year. Keith B. Alexander, an Amazon board member and former NSA administrator (retired), joined Einride’s board earlier this month as the company looks to expand into the defense sector.
—CNBC’s Annie Palmer contributed reporting.
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