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AT&T Adds 1,000th Alternative-Fuel Fleet Vehicle
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
AT&T announced the deployment of its 1,000th alternative-fuel vehicle in its corporate fleet. The deployment is part of a $565 million planned investment announced in March 2009 to replace more than 15,000 fleet vehicles with more fuel-efficient models through 2018. AT&T currently operates a fleet of more than 77,000 vehicles.
The 10-year initiative includes an expected $350 million to purchase approximately 8,000 compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles over a five-year period, including the 1,000th alternative-fuel vehicle, a CNG van deployed in Oakland, California. This represents the largest initiative to CNG to date by a U.S. company. AT&T anticipates spending another $215 million through 2018 to replace 7,100 fleet passenger cars with alternative fuel models. According to the Center for Automotive Research (CAR), AT&T’s overall alternative fuel vehicle initiative will:
-Save 49 million gallons of gasoline over the 10-year deployment period
-Reduce carbon emissions by 211,000 metric tons
“In a time of deep economic uncertainty, AT&T is making investments in our corporate fleet that are good for our business, the environment and our economy,” said Jerome Webber, vice president, AT&T Fleet Operations. “The deployment of our 1,000th alternative-fuel vehicle signals a demand for cleaner alternative fuels that are less volatile in cost and that can be tapped here in America, right now.” CAR estimates that the AT&T fleet initiative will create or save – on average – approximately 1,000 jobs per year over the first five years of the initiative.
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Tags: alternative-fuel vehicles, AT&T, carbon emissions, Center for Automotive Research, corporate fleet, deployment, environment, gallons, gasoline
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New Study Shows Massive Impact of “Going Green” with Fleets
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
A new report by the Sustainable Transportation and Communities group at the Center for Automotive Research (CAR), a Michigan-based nonprofit research group, has examined the benefits of converting business fleets from gasoline to alternative-fuel vehicles such as compressed natural gas and gas-electric hybrids.
The main idea that the report supports is that turning corporate and other business vehicle fleets “green” provides the opportunity to put large numbers of more environmentally friendly vehicles onto the roads at once. The results of doing so would be both environmentally and economically positive.
Replacing 15,000 current gas-powered fleet vehicles with gas-powered and hybrid vehicles over a 10 year period could reduce gasoline consumption by more than 49 million gallons and cut carbon dioxide emissions by 211,000 metric tons in that period. Those reductions would be the same as simply removing 38,000 gasoline powered vehicles from the road for an entire year.
The CAR study used AT&T’s vehicle replacement program as a case study for their report. The AT&T program will also help to support an average of 1,000 vehicle manufacturing jobs each year until 2013.
“This example of corporate leadership, if followed by a significant portion of other public and private fleets, could have a huge impact on the release of greenhouse gases and significantly reduce the dependence on foreign oil,” said Kim Hill, director of the Sustainable Transportation and Communities group at CAR and the study’s lead. “For example, the emissions equal to 600,000 vehicles and the consumption of 15 million barrels of oil could be eliminated if 25% of the fleets had similar programs. In addition, demand for these types of advanced technology vehicles by the nation’s fleets could spur a growth in domestic green jobs.”
If the country is serious about increasing the number of fuel-efficient vehicles on the road in the near future, the fleets of America represent the best opportunity in the shortest timeframe, Hill said.
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