Category Archives: Fleet Vehicles

Helping ServiceMaster Serve the Environment

By | Bio | Published: January 4, 2012

By James Siegel, 2011 EDF Climate Corps Fellow at ServiceMaster, MIB Candidate at The Fletcher School, Tufts University ServiceMaster is a Memphis-based leading provider of home and business services focused on lawn care, pest control and cleaning. And it’s where I completed my EDF Climate Corps fellowship this year. As an EDF Climate Corps fellow, [...]

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Trucks continue to be VIP

By | Published: December 9, 2011

Earlier this year, I wrote a blog post discussing the Hybrid Voucher Incentive Program (HVIP) by the California Air Resources Board (CARB). The program, with a little over $11 million in funding, is still going strong into next year albeit with a few minor changes. Vouchers still range between $10,000-30,000 on a first-come, first serve [...]

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New Collaborative Efforts to Help Clean Up Port Pollution

By | Published: June 29, 2011

By: Elena Craft, Air Quality Specialist, Climate & Air Program, EDF Today’s press conference in Charleston, S.C., marked another successful milestone toward reducing trucking emissions and improving local health in and around our nation’s ports. Together with the Coalition for Responsible Transportation, Environmental Defense Fund and the Port of Charleston announced an agreement today to [...]

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Progressive, Cox and Frito Lay find savings at the pump

By | Bio | Published: June 6, 2011

As May turns to June, a nation of summer drivers rejoices in the recent slide of gas prices from  $3.98 per gallon at the beginning of May to $3.78 per gallon at the end of the month. Ok, maybe “rejoices” is a bit strong.  But there is a palpable sense of relief that the near daily [...]

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Work Trucks and Fuel Consumption: 2011

By | Bio | Published: March 10, 2011

The Work Truck Show – an annual must-attend event for the vocational truck market – is occurring this week in Indianapolis. I attend the first two days of the event and was able to participate in the Green Truck Summit hosted by CalStart and the NTEA. The major topic of the summit was the coming [...]

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Who knew trucks could get VIP? Voucher Incentive Program, that is

By | Published: February 28, 2011

Hopefully, you remember our blog post from last year about the Hybrid Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Program (HVIP) that California had begun. Now in its second year, California is committing an additional $19 million to the effort. Started under the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the program provides vouchers on a first-come, first-served basis [...]

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Can the fleet industry cut emission 20% over the next five years?

By | Bio | Published: February 8, 2011

Yes, in fact, it has before. According to the annual State of Green Business report released last week by the GreenBiz Group, the average fleet vehicle emitted 11.56 metric tons of greenhouse gases last year. This figure represents a nearly 5% drop over the 2009 level and an impressive 21% reduction from 2006 – the [...]

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Hybrid Trucks: Creating Jobs, Reducing Emissions

By | Bio | Published: January 31, 2011
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Last Thursday, Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) celebrated the production of its 1,000th hybrid-electric vehicle, a Freightliner Business Class M2 106. While the environmental benefits of these trucks – which can be 40% more efficient than conventional trucks – are well known, the job benefits received the most attention in the local media (see, News [...]

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The Chevy Volt: Driving Towards a Healthier Planet

By | Published: January 21, 2011

I absolutely love to drive. Whether cruising along highways, adventuring down a road less traveled or “dropping the hammer” on a closed course, there’s something about driving cars that puts my whole body and mind in a good place (except when I’m bogged down in traffic!). So I noted with interest when Chevrolet — one [...]

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Is your company prepared for $5/ gallon gas?

By | Bio | Published: January 20, 2011

In case you haven’t noticed, fuel prices are on the rise again.  Of course, it would be hard not to notice..  Even those among us that have chosen to travel exclusively on other forms of transportation likely find it hard to miss the rote commiserating from the rest of us every time we have to [...]

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