UPS purchased 100 all-electric delivery vehicles for deployment in California to replace diesel trucks.


The 100 vehicles will be acquired from Electric Vehicles International of Stockton, Calif., and will replace older generation diesel trucks. These electric vehicles will have a 90-mile range and save an estimated 126,000 gallons of fuel a year.

UPS currently has 28 all-electric vehicles in its fleets operating in New York City and in Europe.

Since 2000, has traveled more than 200 million miles. Besides all-electric technology, UPS has deployed Compressed Natural Gas, propane, Liquified Natural Gas and hybrid- electric vehicles in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Brazil, Korea, the United Kingdom and Hong Kong. It also has tested hybrid hydraulic and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.



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