FedEx Express Adding 75 Hybrid Diesel-Electric Trucks
by John Laumer, Philadelphia on 06.11.05
Go FedEx. Can-do investment like this makes real TreeHuggers think about who's going to be a preferred service provider. From the release: "The FedEx E700 hybrid electric vehicle decreases particulate emissions by 96% and travels 57% farther on a gallon of fuel than a conventional FedEx truck, reducing fuel costs by more than one third"..."Cleveland OH-based Eaton Corp produced the hybrid electric powertrain for the vehicle".
Based on recent lab testing at the Southwest Research Institute, particulate matter emitted was reduced 96%, nitrogen oxide 65%.
Wow, now I'll ship everything FedEx Ground. If only they had a FedEx Hybrid Truck shipping option. =)
what i want to know is how can i get one ;D chop the top a bit and it'd make a perfect motorhome platform.
Hmmm... I couldn't see myself owning one, but would sure love to be able to rent one from time to time for hauling and moving bigger stuff. And if I were a small business owner I'd probably want one.
FedEX is better anyway, I mean UPS just lost a backup tape from Citibank of 1 million customer's financial data.
I wouldn't use UPS
I'm very glad we do nearly all of our shipping at work through FedEx. Not only are they cleaner--they're cheaper too!
Some of these comments scare me a little--shipping FedEx means shipping by air, unless you are specifically using FedEx Ground. The fuel used by the air part has got to be way more than the truck covering the last few miles, hybrid or not. So any ground shipping is going to be better than any air shipping, regardless of whether hybrids are involved.
Kudos to FedEx, and if you have to ship by air, it sounds like they are a good choice. But if people start choosing FedEx (air) over UPS (ground) thinking it's greener, that's a big mistake.
Hate to break it to you but UPS "Ground" is a ground/air hybrid. At least that's what the kid at the UPS store said when I needed to ship dangerous goods...