Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Enterprise Rent-A-Car, AT&T beef up green fleets - Memphis Business Journal:

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, which has 9,000 workers in the St. Louis plans to spend more thana half-billiohn dollars over the next decade to invest in more than 15,000 alternative-fuel vehicles nationwide. Dallas-based AT&T plansw to spend $350 million to buy 8,000 Compressed Natural Gas vehiclesand $215 milliomn to replace 7,100 companyu passenger cars with hybrids. CNG is a more environmentally clean fossil fuel substitute to gasolineand diesel. AT&T’s investmentg in CNG vehicles represents the largest U.S.
corporate commitment in this type of vehicle to Employees who install and maintain communications service will use theCNG vehicles, whichh release 25 percent less greenhouse gases than gasoline-powered Managers will drive the hybrids. As a resultt of this initiative, the company expects to see a 39 percentg improvement in fuel economy and a 29 percent reductiohn in greenhousegas “This is not said Jerome Webber, AT&T’es vice president of fleet operations. “This is a commitmenf the company has made and will continude to make going forward in terms of Seeingour chairman, Randall Stephenson, make this announcement in this economi c climate...
it’s the right strategy for our company.” AT&yT also will work with natural gas servicde providers to build up to 40 new CNG fueling stations acrossthe company’s operatingb region to put the fueling infrastructure in The Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Mich., estimatesd that AT&T’s investment in the new vehicles will save 49 milliob gallons of gasoline and reduce carbojn emissions by 211,000 metric tons over the 10-yeart deployment period. That’s the equivalent of removing the emissionw from morethan 38,600 traditional passenger vehiclese for an entire year.
For car renta l giant, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, it’s all about hybrids and Enterprise doubledits gas-electric hybrid fleet with the additio of 5,000 vehicles and is designatinf 94 rental locations as “hybrid branches,” includintg three in St. Enterprise now has a total of 7,000 hybridr vehicles, plus 2,000 more at its Alamop and Nationalbrand locations. In the last year, Enterprisew launched its car-sharing WeCar, nationwide, said Pam president of Enterprise. “The program is an environmentally friendltand cost-effective hourly car rental optiobn for customers who need a vehicle durinh the day,” she WeCar started in St. Louis with programs at and downtown.
Enterprise appointede Lee Broughton as directof of corporate sustainability in September to overseethe company’es $120 million environmental initiatives.

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