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"GREEN" NEWS * TRUCKING INDUSTRY
* USA - FedEx Express has hired Azure Dynamics to develop gasoline hybrid-electric vehicles for their delivery fleet...
USA -Green Energy News (Baltimore,MD) -19 May 2007: -- ... With an interest in saving fuel, a desire to make its delivery operations greener, and tired of waiting for the automakers to produce fuel efficient delivery vans. Under the contract, Azure Dynamics, a Toronto, Ontario-based developer of hybrid and electric vehicles and drive systems, will provide a test vehicle to FedEx Express for its Ford E-450 hybrid commercial delivery van development program. After the development phase FedEx will purchase a minimum of 20 E-450 hybrid electric vans from Azure Dynamics. FedEx claims to have the largest fleet of hybrid delivery vans in the transportation industry, with 93 operating in North America...
* USA - Wal-Mart developing their own hybrid trucks
Baltimore,MD,USA -Green Energy News (Baltimore,MD) -19 May 2007: -- Also taking the unusual step, the company has taken delivery of the first Class 8 hybrid truck in the heavy-duty trucking industry. The Peterbilt Model 386 Hybrid was developed as part of Wal-Mart’s green initiative it calls Sustainability 360 which promotes innovations to increase environmental conscientiousness within the company as well as to vendors and customers... The Peterbilt Hybrid, using hybrid technology from Eaton Corporation, achieves a 7-8 percent improvement in fuel economy. In dollars and cents the system will save about $9000 per year per truck in fuel. The large battery pack also provides quiet emission-free power for heating, air conditioning and electrical goodies when the engine is shut down. Typically truckers run engines continuously to provide power during rest periods...
* USA - Pepco Holdings will convert their entire 2000-vehicle fleet to alternative fuel and hybrid vehicles
Washington,DC,USA -Green Energy News (Baltimore,MD) -19 May 2007: -- PHI the -based parent of a number of mid-Atlantic US power companies, is willing to wait for vehicle manufacturers to offer alternatively fueled and hybrid vehicles. But the company has committed to buying them when available and will convert their entire 2000-vehicle fleet to alternative fuel and hybrid vehicles... The company is in the process of converting all of its fueling facilities to biodiesel blend and will add thirty additional hybrid vehicles this year... The company, too, will be examining new technologies as they come along, including plug-in hybrids that would recharge from the company’s own grid overnight...
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