Amazon won't own the trucks — Einride will. The company is opening its Relay freight app to 75 Einride electric heavy-duty trucks that Einride will own, operate and support with charging at five U.S. sites.

Deal details

Amazon has agreed to make 75 electric heavy-duty trucks from Sweden’s Einride available to drivers using its Relay freight app. Under the arrangement, Einride will own and operate the vehicles and supply charging infrastructure at five sites across the United States. Drivers using Relay will be able to book loads hauled by Einride trucks, which Einride will manage with its Saga fleet-management software.

The trucks will remain Einride assets; Amazon won't buy or operate them. Einride will lease access to the rigs and handle routing, maintenance and charging while integrating the units into Amazon’s broader freight bookings through Relay, the company’s driver-facing logistics platform launched in 2017.

The tie-up gives Einride direct access to one of the world’s largest logistics networks and a chance to scale U.S. operations quickly and test its software and charging systems in high-volume e-commerce freight lanes.

Einride will also install and manage charging stations at five U.S. locations to support the deployed trucks and provide local charging capacity tied to the vehicles’ schedules and routes.

How Einride will run the trucks

Einride will use Saga, its proprietary AI and telematics platform, to manage the 75 trucks. Saga handles scheduling, route planning, energy management and telematics, coordinating charging windows with route assignments to reduce downtime.

Operational control means Einride will handle driver assignments, vehicle maintenance and energy management. Drivers booked through Amazon Relay will be matched with loads the Einride rigs can serve, avoiding Amazon's capital outlay and operational complexity of owning and operating electric big rigs.

Einride has previously built and run a fleet of roughly 200 heavy-duty electric trucks for corporate customers in Europe, North America and the UAE. Its commercial customers include Heineken, PepsiCo and Carlsberg Sweden. Einride also develops cab-less autonomous pod vehicles, but the Amazon deal does not include those autonomous units.

Commercial and environmental context

Electrifying heavy trucking is one of the tougher logistics challenges: long distances, high payloads and the need for reliable charging infrastructure make economics and operations harder than for vans or local delivery trucks. The Einride–Amazon deal pairs software-driven fleet management with on-site charging and integration into an existing booking network to address those hurdles.

For Amazon, the deal fits into long-standing climate commitments to cut emissions and move toward net-zero operations. Adding electric heavy-duty trucks to corridors where feasible reduces diesel consumption and tailpipe emissions across parts of its freight network without requiring Amazon to own every asset.

For Einride, the agreement comes at a pivotal corporate moment.

This deal gives Amazon a way to add electric heavy trucks on high-volume e-commerce lanes without buying the vehicles, while giving Einride a chance to scale U.S. operations and test its Saga software and charging systems in real-world freight corridors.

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Einride will own and operate the 75 electric trucks and install charging infrastructure at five U.S. locations as part of the deal.