Emissions Reduction * USA - Efforts at the Nation’s Largest Commercial Fleet

Who’s the largest commercial fleet in the U.S.? AT&T that operates 86,099 vehicles...

Dallas,TX,USA -Innovation Exchange/Fleets, by Jason Mathers -October 15, 2009: ... Ranking them first on the Automotive Fleet Top 300 Commercial Fleets list... Last March, AT&T announced a major initiative to “deploy more than 15,000 alternative-fuel vehicles over the next 10 years”... AT&T’s efforts were recognized with several awards including a NAFA GreenFleet Award and a 2009 National NGV Achievement Award. Now the Center for Automotive Research (CAR) has released a study on the environmental and economic impact of their efforts. Among the key findings are that once AT&T’s program is fully implemented it will reduce emissions by nearly 32,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases per year... Efficiency efforts, such as vehicle right-sizing and fuel-smart driving techniques noted above, often aren’t considered news worthy. However, they remain as vitally important to reduce emissions. In fact, given the savings that some other fleets have seen from idling reduction and getting drivers to adopt fuel-smart driving behaviors, AT&T may well find that they reduce more emissions from their efficiency efforts than their existing initiative to deploy 15,000 alternative-fuel vehicles. All of these strategies—increasing the use of lower-carbon fuels, incorporating advanced vehicles, right-sizing vehicles and improving vehicle use—are needed for a comprehensive, long-term effort to reduce fleet greenhouse gas emissions... (Photo from farm2.static.flickr: ATT's trucks)