Amazon ties up with HPCL for low carbon fuels

Amazon India connected Monday said it has signed an archetypal pact with state-owned Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd for pushing the improvement and adoption of Low Carbon Fuels (LCFs) for long-haul proscription successful India.

Under the collaboration, HPCL and Amazon volition behaviour a aviator to trial fuels successful the latter's long-haul transport vehicles and research the possibilities of fuelling hubs and mobile refuelling stations for casual entree to LCFs, Amazon India said.

This confederation marks a important measurement towards reducing c emissions successful the proscription assemblage and besides aligns with Amazon's planetary committedness to achieving net-zero c crossed its operations by 2040, contributing to India's nationalist extremity of net-zero c by 2070, Amazon India said.

"Biofuels are cardinal to India's vigor modulation and are acceptable to lend to jobs and economical growth. Amazon's collaboration with HPCL is simply a measurement toward empowering this transformational shift.

"In enactment with The Climate Pledge's planetary extremity to scope net-zero c by 2040, accelerating substance alternatives successful our proscription web reinforces our committedness to India's vigor ambitions and is helping our ngo to trim emissions," said Abhinav Singh, vice president for operations astatine Amazon India.

Amazon India besides said that some the companies volition prosecute with authorities bodies and manufacture deliberation tanks to enactment policies that beforehand the scaling of LFCs successful the country.

It besides said that nether the concern cultivation and concern discarded volition beryllium utilized for substance accumulation successful the cities of Visakhapatnam and Bahadurgarh, adding that the inaugural volition assistance make fuelling hubs and mobile refuelling stations crossed each states successful the country.

Moreover, the companies volition beforehand low-carbon fuels done argumentation advocacy and research, it stated. "We are committed to processing and scaling sustainable substance solutions that payment our country, the industry, and the environment.

This collaboration marks a pivotal measurement toward decarbonising long-haul proscription and aligns with our imaginativeness of supporting India's semipermanent debased c improvement strategy," HPCL said.