Mini Good News | July 10, 2009 | 1 comment

U.S. Postal Service gets 6,500 new alternative power vehicles

source: http://www.autobloggreen.com/2009/07/10/u-s-postal-service-gets-6-500-new-alternative-power-...

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As part of the U.S. General Services Administration's recent $210 million purchase of new vehicles from Chrysler, Ford and General Motors, the U.S. Postal Service is set to replace some 6,500 vehicles from its current fleet with more fuel efficient models. Of that number, 1,000 of the new vehicles are E-85 ethanol-capable and 900 are hybrids. The other 4,600 are conventional cars powered by four-cylinder gasoline-powered engines.

The U.S. Postal service currently operates a huge fleet of nearly 220,000 vehicles and will drive those cars an amazing 1.2 billion miles this year. After the 1,900 new hybrids and flex-fuel vehicles provided by the GSA, the USPS will have a total of 43,000 such machines in its fleet.

In addition, the USPS is currently trialing two four-generation Chevrolet Equinox hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, 300 vehicles powered by biodiesel, 35 delivery vehicles in Florida using propane and a series of electric transporters from T3 Motion in Florida, California and Arizona. Sometime soon, the USPS should begin using a fleet of 250 battery-powered minivans from Chrysler.
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