You mean the emissions from the EV doing the delivery? Or the emissions from the hydro or solar or wind (or even natural gas) used to generate the electricity that was stored in the battery?
The absurd waste of energy in moving a 4000lb object to deliver a 1lb object. You can attribute that to whatever source you want. It's still wasted energy.
Wasted energy isn't exactly emissions. The claim was really specific, so I wanted to figure out what they meant by it. Of course, on the east coast they use a lot more coal, so there is a point to made I guess.
I think it is dumb to use Waymo cars, but E-bikes would work really well here. I'm sure whoever breaks through this market will come with some sort of light vehicle solution. Waymo seems to be doing this as a side project to use their vehicles when ride share demand is low.
