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Green Fleet Roundup: FedEx to Test Nissan, GE and PayPal, E15 Warning

July 17, 2012 by Kirsten Korosec

FedEx will this month begin testing Nissan’s 100 percent electric e-NV200 commercial vehicle in Yokohama, Japan. The e-NV200 test model, which will be used for about one month, will be evaluated for its potential for the delivery of international air cargo. This will be the second test conducted with FedEx, ... Read more »

UPS Introduces 40% More Fuel-Efficient Vans

June 22, 2012June 26, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

UPS has ordered 150 composite-body diesel vans after testing five of the CV-23 prototype vehicles and achieving a 40 percent increase in fuel efficiency compared with traditional aluminum vans. The vans were developed with Isuzu, using one of the car maker’s own chassis, and a composite body designed by Utilimaster. ... Read more »

FedEx Express: Fleet 16.6% More Efficient Than in 2005

May 17, 2012May 21, 2012 by Leon Walker

FedEx Express’ vehicle fleet was 16.6 percent more fuel efficient in 2011 than it was in 2005, the company has announced. The company has a goal of making its vehicle fleet 20 percent more fuel efficient by 2020. The announcement means that the company is already 80 percent of the ... Read more »

FedEx, Purolator and UPS to Drive ‘Hybrids Without Batteries’

April 19, 2012April 19, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

FedEx Ground, Purolator and UPS will soon deliver packages using hybrid hydraulic parcel delivery trucks. The companies, members of the Hybrid, Electric and Advanced Truck Users Forum’s parcel delivery working group, announced the receipt of the evaluation vehicles from Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation, Morgan Olson and Parker Hannifin. FedEx Ground, ... Read more »

FedEx Express Launches Carbon-Neutral Shipping

April 11, 2012April 11, 2012 by Leon Walker

FedEx Express, an operating company of FedEx Corp., is launching a carbon-neutral shipping program for its most widely used packaging for document shipping. FedEx Express will make an investment in global projects that displace or sequester greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere, neutralizing the impacts of the carbon emissions emitted ... Read more »

Smith Electric Has Suspended EV Truck Production

March 26, 2012April 8, 2014 by Kirsten Korosec

Kansas City-based Smith Electric Vehicles has suspended production and assembly operations of its EV trucks. The electric vehicle manufacturer quietly stopped production last year due to a shortage of cash—a move that was disclosed in report for the last quarter of 2013 filed with the US Department of Energy, reported ... Read more »

FedEx to Fund Transportation Projects in Mexico, Brazil, India

December 21, 2011 by Leon Walker

FedEx will provide $1.4 million over two years to EMBARQ – the World Resources Institute’s sustainable transport arm – to provide technical expertise on sustainable transportation projects in cities in Mexico, Brazil and India. This grant is a continuation of FedEx’s collaboration with EMBARQ’s Center for Sustainable Transport in Mexico, ... Read more »

Fleet Briefing: Chevy Volt Fire, FedEx, Toyota Recall and Electric Honda Commuters

November 15, 2011November 15, 2011 by Leon Walker

Automaker GM has tried to blame government testers for a fire that reportedly engulfed one of its plug-in Chevrolet Volt cars following testing at a federal facility. The hybrid car’s lithium-ion battery caught fire three weeks after being damaged in a crash test at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, ... Read more »

Publix, Google, UPS Top CSR Index; Scores Drop Overall

October 6, 2011October 7, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Publix Super Markets, Google and UPS have taken the top spots in the Corporate Social Responsibility Index, a ranking of the 50 companies with the best corporate citizenship reputations among the U.S. public. Rounding out the top ten were Kellogg’s, Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, FedEx, Campbell’s, Baxter International and 3M. But ... Read more »

UPS, FedEx Report Efficiency Gains

July 29, 2011July 29, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

UPS and FedEx have released sustainability reports within days of each other, with UPS showing a 3.3 percent reduction in fuel consumed per package from 2009 to 2010, while FedEx cut all three scopes of greenhouse gas emissions in that time. Highlights of UPS’s report include the company’s hitting a ... Read more »

Fleet Briefing: GM to Meet 56.2 mpg; FedEx Adds 4,000 Green Vehicles; Toyota Prius PR Slips

June 29, 2011June 29, 2011 by Leon Walker

GM has become the first major US automaker to commit itself publicly to meeting the Obama administration’s 56.2 miles per gallon fuel efficiency goal. The target would be for cars and light trucks to average this level of efficiency by 2025. When talking to the Associated Press, Mark Reuss, the ... Read more »

An Electrifying Idea: Where There’s A Will, There’s A Way

May 2, 2011June 12, 2011 by Mitch Jackson

“It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.” – Will Rogers This nation’s energy policy for the past forty years is not that hard to judge – it’s disjointed, shortsighted and largely ineffective. We know it, we say it, but we continue ... Read more »

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