{"id":604849,"date":"2023-09-20T12:25:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T06:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=604849"},"modified":"2023-09-20T12:25:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T06:55:59","slug":"startups-with-electric-vans-race-to-fill-demand-for-zero-emissions-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/startups-with-electric-vans-race-to-fill-demand-for-zero-emissions-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"Startups with electric vans race to fill demand for zero-emissions delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A clutch of European and U.S. delivery company startups is racing to serve the growing market for offering zero-emission, electric last-mile deliveries in cities to retailers and consumers before giant shippers do the same.<\/p>\n<p>The likes of Germany&#8217;s Liefergrun, the UK&#8217;s Zedify and Packfleet, and New York-based DutchX are tapping into retailers&#8217; need to hit environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) and emission-reduction targets. Collectively, zero-emission delivery startups have raised around $1 billion so far, according to Pitchbook and data collected by Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A clutch of European and U.S. delivery company startups is racing to serve the growing market for offering zero-emission, electric last-mile deliveries in cities to retailers and consumers before giant shippers do the same. The likes of Germany&#8217;s Liefergrun, the UK&#8217;s Zedify and Packfleet, and New York-based DutchX are tapping into retailers&#8217; need to hit environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) and emission-reduction targets. Collectively, zero-emission delivery startups have raised around $1 billion so far, according to Pitchbook and data collected by Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}