AT&T is celebrating the deployment of its 1,000th alternative-fuel vehicle in its corporate fleet – a E250 CNG Econoline van deployed in Oakland, California. The deployment is part of a $565 million planned investment announced in March 2009 to replace more than 15,000 fleet vehicles with more fuel-efficient models through 2018. More than half of the replacement fleet will be natural gas vehicles.
Jerome Webber, vice president, AT&T Fleet Operations, said βThe deployment of our 1,000th alternative-fuel vehicle signals a demand for cleaner alternative fuels that are less volatile in cost and that can be tapped here in America, right now.β CAR estimates that the AT&T fleet initiative will create or save β on average β approximately 1,000 jobs per year over the first five years of the initiative.
