UPS Deploys 300 CNG Trucks, Now Totals 800 in Service
UPS has announced the deployment of 300 new delivery trucks powered by compressed natural gas (CNG) to seven cities in Colorado, Georgia, Oklahoma and California. The CNG vehicles, part of an order placed last May (see NGV Global article), will allow UPS to further reduce its dependence on traditional fossil fuels like gasoline and diesel and lower its carbon footprint. UPS already operates the largest private fleet of alternative fuel vehicles in its industry - 1,819 in total with these additions.
The new CNG trucks have been deployed over the past month to Denver (43); Atlanta (46); Oklahoma City (100), and four cities in California: Sacramento (21), San Ramon (63), Los Angeles (9) and Ontario (18). All are now in service.
Robert Hall, UPS's director of vehicle engineering, says "Continuing to add CNG delivery trucks to our fleet is a sustainable choice because natural gas is a cost effective, clean-burning and readily available fuel." Hall added, "The company plans to continue to expand its 'green fleet' and to focus deployments in areas with air quality challenges."
The 300 trucks deployed over the past month were built from scratch as CNG vehicles. They join more than 800 CNG vehicles already in use by UPS worldwide.
The CNG trucks are expected to yield a 20 percent emissions reduction over the cleanest diesel engines available in the market today.
For its alternative fuel fleet, UPS has deployed CNG, Liquefied Natural Gas, propane, electric and hybrid electric vehicles in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Germany, France, Brazil, Chile, Korea and the United Kingdom. Just since 2000, the company's "green fleet" has traveled 144 million miles.
Source: ngvglobal.com