AT&T,联邦快递,百事可乐,UPS和Verizon是国家清洁舰队合作伙伴关系的宪章成员,这是一项新的白宫倡议,旨在帮助大型公司将电动汽车,替代燃料和节省燃料措施纳入其车队中。
该合作伙伴关系由能源部运营,试图帮助全国各地的大型车队到2020年将石油使用25亿加仑。该计划将为公司提供技术援助和购买帮助,以鼓励公司使用替代燃料采用车辆包括电力,天然气,生物生物Esel,乙醇,氢和丙烷。据《美国能源部》报道,五名宪章成员正计划部署20,000多种高级技术车辆,并将每年取代700万加仑的石油。这些成员运营着全国十个最大的舰队,并共同拥有和运营超过275,000辆汽车。能源部长史蒂文·楚(Steven Chu)和运输部长雷·拉霍德(Ray Lahood)总统巴拉克·奥巴马(Barack Obama)周五启动了这项倡议,访问了马里兰州兰德弗(Landover)的UPS运输设施。该活动遵循energy policy speech by Obama on Thursday, in which he called for greater use of natural gas and biofuel, and more domestic oil and gas drilling, to reduce the country’s dependence on foreign oil. Continue reading about The National Clean Fleets Partnership on EnvironmentalLeader.com... UPS13078Date and Time are ET. We may take up to two hours to approve confirmed content. Content is reviewed for publishing: Monday-Wednesday 8 a.m. -8 p.m. ET, Thursday-Friday 8 a.m. -6 p.m. ET
by Shawn Butler
A crowd of more than 300 UPS employees and guests welcomed President Barack Obama to the Landover, Md. UPS facility on Friday, April 1.
President Obama opened his speech joking to the crowd why he and members of his Cabinet were there, “I am thrilled to be here, proud to be joined here today by two of our outstanding Cabinet Secretaries, Steven Chu and Ray LaHood. We’re here today for a simple reason: Ray wasn’t home when they tried to deliver a package yesterday – so we thought we’d just grab it and be on our way.”
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(3bl Media/thecsrfeed)L金博宝手机版网页andover- 2011年4月11日 - 与人群交谈在这里的UPS(NYSE:UPS)设施的300多名员工和代表中,巴拉克·奥巴马(Barack Obama)总统赞扬了减少公司卡车舰队的环境影响的努力,并指出了替代燃料汽车降低国家对国家依赖的潜力从环境和业务的角度来源的石油和驱动节省。
“如果您是一家需要运输商品的企业,我会挑战您用清洁能源车队代替旧机队,不仅是对您的底线有好处,但很好奥巴马说。选择举办活动。百事可乐 - 弗里托·莱(Pepsi-Frito Lay),Verizon和AT&T还为总统展示了他们的替代燃料舰队。这些公司今天加入UPS和联邦快递,成为国家清洁舰队合作伙伴关系的宪章成员。
作为合伙企业的成员,这些公司的运营商 - 超过275,000辆汽车的运营商,合并为支持政府的能源安全工作 and to develop new alternative fuel technologies in tandem with the government. The combination of private sector innovation with public sector support is seen as a way to drive efforts to lower America's dependence on foreign oil while growing the domestic economy and contributing a significant cost-savings to companies.
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