Overview
- Amazon launched its Alt‑Treptow micro‑hub, its third in Berlin and 14th in Germany, with a target of delivering more than two million packages per year by electric cargo bike.
- The hub loads parcels from trucks onto e‑bikes for the final stretch to customers in parts of Kreuzberg, Treptow, Neukölln, and Mitte.
- The bikes are owned and run by delivery subcontractors and are built by Mubea U‑Mobility, with roughly 60 in use across Berlin and about 20 assigned to the new site.
- Amazon reports about 2,500 electric vehicles in its German delivery fleet and says e‑cargo bikes now operate in 12 German cities, supported by more than 70 micro‑mobility centers across over 50 European cities.
- Berlin’s mobility chief Ute Bonde pointed to flat streets and plentiful courtyards that let Amazon use an existing site at MotionLab Berlin, a setup officials say can cut van traffic and noise on local blocks.