UPS plans to add 200 new hybrid electric delivery trucks to its alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet.
UPS plans to add 200 new hybrid electric delivery trucks to its alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet.
UPS plans to add 200 new hybrid electric delivery trucks to its alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet.
UPS plans to add 200 new hybrid electric delivery trucks to its alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet.
UPS plans to add 200 new hybrid electric delivery trucks to its alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet.

UPS adds 200 hybrid electric vehicles to alt-fuel fleet

Oct. 14, 2016
UPS announced it plans to add 200 new hybrid electric delivery trucks to the company’s growing alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet.

UPS announced it plans to add 200 new hybrid electric delivery trucks to the company’s growing alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet. The vehicles have the same 2-cylinder engine and E-GENTM chassis as the 125 vehicles UPS announced earlier this year. 

Equipped with lithium ion batteries and a range extender engine, these trucks will deliver significant fuel economy equivalency gains, approximately four times the fuel economy of a gasoline powered vehicle. A cloud-based, real time telematics performance monitoring system provides feedback for energy monitoring and route efficiency. The trucks, manufactured by Workhorse Group, will be deployed beginning in January 2017 starting in Arizona, Texas, Nevada, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida, and, possibly in other states as well.

“The improvements in these new package cars came from real-world experience in our alternative fuel Rolling Laboratory, which earlier this year hit a 1 billion miles driven milestone,” said Mark Wallace, UPS senior vice president global engineering and sustainability. “We are committed to developing alternative fuel vehicles that lessen our impact on the environment and reliance on petroleum based fuels – that effort is helping to transform markets and communities.”

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