USA, Atlanta
Freight giant UPS has ordered 300 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) vehicles for its U.S. delivery fleet. Together with an order for 200 hybrid electric vehicles the UPS alternative fuel fleet – already the largest such private fleet in the United States – will grow 30 percent from 1,718 to 2,218 low-carbon vehicles. The 300 CNG vehicles will be deployed later this year and join more than 800 such vehicles already in use in the United States. The vehicles are expected to yield a 20 percent reduction in emissions over the cleanest diesel engines available today.
"Alternative fuel research and development is just one of the ways that
UPS is mitigating climate change risks," said Bob Stoffel, UPS’s
corporate sustainability officer. "We also are focused on aggressive
conservation programs and improving network efficiency to cut fuel use."
The CNG/HEV vehicle order follows the deployment of 167 new CNG vehicles in April 2008 (see NGV Global article).
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