For a company at scale as amazon, they are a major consumer of equipment and the sourcing of that equipment is also a corporate operation.
Draw attention to https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/electric-vehicle-myths#Myt... specifically the lifecycle green house gas chart.
(breakeven is 15k miles with Redwood's recycling)
An EV may have fairly high CO2 emissions during production, but much of that is associated with mining of metals/minerals. Those are generally recyclable. Large scale commercial recycling of EV batteries is already happening. So those CO2 emissions are not for just one vehicle. It’s for many vehicles far into the future.
The CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels will never benefit anything but the one vehicle it’s propelling forward.
You’ve also gotta keep in mind that the mining and industrial transportation sector is also being decarbonised, sometimes with the same EV technology that EV cars are made with. Electric mining dump trucks is now a reality. Keep the long term picture in mind: we actually have a very viable pathway to eliminate whatever minor CO2 emissions are associated with EVs by just pouring more investments and R&D into EV technology.
That's why you need to enforce flaring (burning the methane and releasing CO2 into the atmosphere) because that's better than simply venting the methane.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_venting
> Gas venting, more specifically known as natural-gas venting or methane venting, is the intentional and controlled release of gases containing alkane hydrocarbons - predominately methane - into Earth's atmosphere. It is a widely used method for disposal of unwanted gases which are produced during the extraction of coal and crude oil. Such gases may lack value when they are not recyclable into the production process, have no export route to consumer markets, or are surplus to near-term demand.
"""Transportation activities generate carbon emissions through the combustion of fossil fuels when vehicles are driven, the manufacturing of vehicles, and the supply chain for fuels. The emissions model for transportation covers emissions associated with “well-to-wheels” impacts (e.g.,extracting, refining, distributing, and consuming transportation fuels) and “vehicle” impacts (e.g., manufacturing, maintaining, and disposing of vehicles). These impacts are reported as emissions factors based on grams of CO₂e per kilometer basis."""
Tldr; for consumer vehicles, break even point for emissions was roughly 40k miles in the EU, and 50k in the US. After that it was a ~net positive vs equivalent gasoline model. For commercial use cases where 50k miles can be done many times over in a single year (and expected vehicular lifecycle is much much longer), it should be pure gravy.