Your Amazon delivery driver may soon be pedaling your package to the front door.
Amazon has launched more than 25 electric cargo bikes in Culver City — the company’s first West Coast rollout of the delivery system. Burbank is next.
And these aren’t exactly your neighborhood bicycles.
Each pedal-assist cargo bike can handle roughly 240 packages per shift with one refill stop. They top out at 12 miles per hour and come equipped with rear cameras, regenerative braking and automatic parking brakes.
Amazon says the idea is to replace some delivery vans, reducing traffic, noise and emissions in congested neighborhoods.
There’s also a workforce twist: Amazon’s delivery partners can hire riders who don’t have driver’s licenses. One local delivery contractor says it needs at least 50 additional workers as the Culver City program gets underway.
So your next Prime delivery may still arrive the same day.
It’ll just have considerably fewer horsepower.
