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Amazon and Tata Motors to deploy 3,000 electric trucks across India

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Amazon and Tata Motors to deploy 3,000 electric trucks across India

Amazon and Tata Motors have announced a plan to deploy 3,000 electric trucks across India, beginning with a Delhi rollout during the festive season. The project expands Amazon’s electrification strategy from last-mile delivery into middle-mile and intercity freight, with a longer-term focus on the Delhi-Bengaluru-Chennai corridor along NH-48. The move could become a key test case for commercial EV adoption in Indian logistics.

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Amazon is taking its India electrification push far beyond delivery vans and two-wheelers. The e-commerce major has lined up a plan to introduce 3,000 electric trucks into its transport network, a move that could reshape middle-mile freight movement across some of the country’s busiest commercial routes.

The first phase is set to begin in Delhi during the festive season, with Tata Ultra E.7 electric trucks being used to move cargo between facilities and within cities. In the initial rollout, Amazon ’s carrier partners will own and operate the trucks, while Tata Motors will supply the vehicles and support the deployment.

The collaboration was unveiled on Tuesday and the first batch of trucks was flagged off in Delhi in the presence of Union Heavy Industries and Steel Minister H. D. Kumaraswamy and other officials. The opening phase will focus on light- and medium-duty electric trucks serving Amazon’s middle-mile network, which is the link between warehouses, fulfilment centres and urban distribution points.

That middle-mile layer is often the hardest part of logistics to decarbonise because it involves higher payloads, longer operating hours and more predictable route cycles than last-mile delivery.


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