UPS Adds 306 Alternative Fuel Vehicles to Fleet
Date: 09-Jul-07
Country: US
The world's largest package delivery company said it had placed an order for 167 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) delivery trucks and 139 new propane-powered delivery trucks in North America.
The chassis for the CNG trucks will be made by Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp, a unit of Daimler AG's Freightliner LLC. The engines will be made by Cummins Westport, a joint venture of Cummins Inc and Westport Innovations Inc.
Those trucks are expected to yield a 20 percent emissions reduction and a 10 percent improvement in fuel economy.
The chassis of the propane-powered vehicles will be made made by Navistar International Corp unit Workhorse Custom Chassis and the engines by privately-owned Baytech Corp.
These delivery vehicles will emit about 20 percent less nitrogen oxide and 60 percent less carbon monoxide than conventional vehicles, UPS said in a statement.
The Atlanta-based company said the new vehicles would add to 800 CNG package cars it has in the United States and the 600 propane-powered vehicles it operates in Canada and Mexico.
The UPS fleet includes 94,500 delivery trucks worldwide, with just over 70,000 in the United States.
(Reporting by Nick Carey, editing by Brian Moss)
