How Amazon is going small to make a big difference

Delivering packages with electric cargo bikes, electric cargo mopeds, and on foot, we’re working to reduce emissions in our transportation network with micromobility.

Bigger isn’t always better, especially when it comes to delivering packages in dense urban areas. Amazon is expanding our transportation options to bring packages to customers efficiently and with lower tailpipe emissions. Our latest mode of transportation is micromobility: e-cargo bikes, e-cargo mopeds, and pushcarts.

In 2024, we and our delivery partners delivered 170 million packages globally via such micromobility solutions, up from 125 million packages in 2023. Amazon also added new micromobility hubs, which are smaller, centrally located delivery stations in dense cities. There are now 70 of these hubs in more than 45 cities, including London, Paris, and Barcelona. And in the United States, Amazon is delivering packages on foot in Manhattan and by a new e-cargo delivery bike model in Brooklyn that can carry up to 120 packages per trip.

Here’s a closer look at these micromobility solutions.

E-cargo bikes

More than 1.5 million Amazon parcels are delivered with e-cargo bikes in Berlin each year. In June 2025, we introduced e-cargo bikes in Barcelona, Spain, for the first time, and in November, we expanded e-cargo bike operations in Florence, Italy.

In the United Kingdom, e-cargo bikes are replacing traditional delivery vans in towns like Croydon, England, alleviating city traffic congestion. Part of a five-year, £300 million investment in the electrification and decarbonization of Amazon’s U.K. transportation network, e-cargo bikes and on-foot deliveries are expected to make around 2.5 million deliveries to Amazon customers in the U.K. every year.

And after testing e-bikes for grocery deliveries in New York in 2019, the majority of Whole Foods Market and Amazon Fresh grocery deliveries in Manhattan are now completed using e-bikes. In 2023, this pilot project expanded to Brooklyn, where thousands of Amazon packages are delivered via e-bike every day.

In 2024, Amazon also started testing a new e-bike model in Brooklyn and in May 2025, we announced the introduction of more than 250 of these bikes to deliver next- and same-day packages to customers in Manhattan.    

E-cargo mopeds

Amazon recently expanded our deliveries using e-cargo mopeds in Milan. The vehicles are small, quiet, and help reduce congestion in the city by limiting the need for other types of delivery vehicles. They also enable associates to deliver packages to businesses and residents even when parking is limited.

Amazon currently uses e-cargo mopeds in 13 cities in Italy and Spain.

Pushcarts

Pushcarts are used in pedestrian areas where access with other modes is challenging. When the recent San Fermín festival in Pamplona, Spain, shut down city streets, some packages were delivered with special foldable pushcarts that can navigate crowds in lieu of vans. The pushcarts enabled deliveries that would have otherwise been impossible.

Many orders are also delivered on foot in New York, where more than 1,300 associates in Manhattan and Queens use pushcarts to deliver packages to Amazon customers every day. In 2025, they delivered up to 250,000 packages, keeping hundreds of vehicles off the road.

Learn more about how Amazon is decarbonizing transportation across our business.

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