Sweden's Einride to deploy 75 electric trucks for Amazon's US freight

Reuters

Tue, April 21, 2026 astatine 7:06 AM CDT 1 min read

April 21 (Reuters) - Swedish trucking institution Einride said connected Tuesday it had partnered with ‌Amazon.com to deploy 75 manually operated ‌electric heavy-duty trucks and supporting charging infrastructure crossed 5 U.S. ​locations for the e-commerce giant's freight network.

Here are the details:

• Einride said its proprietary optimization software, Saga AI, volition beryllium utilized to negociate ‌electric conveyance execution ⁠for prime Amazon loads, including charging planning.

• The fiscal presumption of the ⁠partnership were not disclosed.

• The U.S. electrical trucking marketplace has struggled to lucifer aboriginal expectations, pursuing ​setbacks astatine ​companies specified arsenic ​Nikola and a slower-than-anticipated ‌rollout of Amazon's electrical transportation vans developed with Rivian.

• Amazon has been progressively leaning connected operators specified arsenic Einride, which supply vehicles, charging infrastructure and fleet-management software, allowing the institution to ‌advance electrification efforts without ​directly owning and operating each ​assets.

• In ​February, Einride said it had raised ‌around $113 cardinal of backstage concern ​in nationalist ​equity.

• Einride is pursuing a nationalist listing successful the archetypal fractional of this twelvemonth ​through its ‌planned merger with blank-check steadfast Legato Merger ​Corp III.

(Reporting by Jaspreet Singh successful Bengaluru; ​Editing by Shreya Biswas)