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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 5 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 49 points 5 months ago (10 children)

i honestly thought amazon went electric everywhere but good for him

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago* (8 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.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 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

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    I think you may have replied to the wrong person.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 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.

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