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What Can Brown Do For You? Go Green
UPS recently placed an order for 200 hybrid vehicles and another 300 Compressed Natural Gas Vehicles. UPS has the largest private fleet of alternative fuel vehicles and with this purchase puts them at 2,128 low emission vehicles. Currently they have 50 hybrid delivery trucks, and the additional 200 should hit the road in 2009. These trucks are expected to save 176,000 gallons of fuel annually and reduce CO2 emissions by over 1,700 tons! The 300 Natural Gas vehicles will go into production later this year.
If they keep going in this direction they may need to change their slogan to “What can green do for you?”
Source: bizjournals.com
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May 15th, 2008 at 11:41 am
This latest move by UPS is commendable. However, the environmental community has been clamoring for years for them to clean up their act. I suspect that the big initiative which FedEx announced 5 years ago had an impact, too.
May 22nd, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Nice. If every transport based company starts to go green we could save tons of petroleum and keep the world greener at the same time. Kudos.
September 9th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
that’s great news, they have huge fleets so this would be a great step in the right direction
October 23rd, 2008 at 7:32 am
The more environmentally friendly vehicles the better, More good green news is that The innovative (and controversial) UK wave hub being built on the Firth has been giving the go ahead - Energy that gets produced underwater and that can’t be seen to the naked eye must be hailed as a great achievement.As long is it does not have a negative impact in the local marine life the more of green and clean energy we can put into the Scottish Power grid is fantastic.