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Hybrids: Electrification Without the Challenges

For fleet managers, fuel is one of the biggest line items in the budget — and it's one hybrids can shrink without changing how your people work. Download the eBook to see the numbers, understand the technology, and get a step-by-step guide to making the switch.

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Articlesby Mike AntichMay 10, 2013

Modifying Driver Behavior: The 'Last Mile' in Greening a Fleet

If you are constrained by equipment limitations, the “last mile” to achieving corporate sustainability objectives is modifying driver behavior. This is possibly the greatest opportunity available to fleet managers in greening their fleets.

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NewsMay 9, 2013

2013 Nissan Leaf Gets IIHS 'Top Safety Pick' Recognition

The 2013 Nissan Leaf earned a Top Safety Pick recognition level from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). The vehicle earned ratings of “Good” in IIHS’ front, side, rollover, and rear crash tests.

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NewsMay 8, 2013

BYD Building Electric Bus Manufacturing Facility in California

BYD, a Chinese firm specializing in rechargeable batteries, vehicle manufacturing, and green energy technologies, will build two manufacturing facilities in Lancaster, Calif. One will focus on electric bus manufacturing and the other on iron-phosphate battery manufacturing

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NewsMay 8, 2013

Florida Approves Natural Gas Vehicle Incentives

Florida’s House of Representatives passed HB 579, which promotes the use of natural gas fuels in Florida, with a 116 – 2 vote on May 2, 2013. The bill provides a mix of incentives and tax breaks for commercial fleet use of natural gas vehicles and fuel.

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NewsMay 8, 2013

Quantum Agrees to Develop $2.63 Million Natural Gas Storage and Fuel System

Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. plans to engineer and develop fuel delivery modules and integrate Quantum's high-capacity ultra-lightweight Q-Lite natural gas vehicle storage systems with ZHRO's natural gas injection/engine conversion system.

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NewsMay 8, 2013

China's BYD Institutes Green and Hybrid Technologies Across Entire Portfolio

BYD has unveiled several technologies to improve fuel efficiencies by greater than 20 percent in its entire 2014 vehicle line-up during the recent Shanghai Auto Show.

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NewsMay 8, 2013

Growing the Grid: Mexico Seeks to Increase its EV Charging Infrastructure

Taxi drivers in Mexico have been going electric for several months, soon those in Mexico who want to drive a 100 percent pure electric car will be able to buy the Nissan LEAF. The company said it is working to increase the electric vehicle charging infrastructure .

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NewsMay 7, 2013

LG Chem Michigan Plans to Start EV Battery Production in July

The company said the plant will build batteries for the Chevrolet Volt and that it expects volume to increase as the electric vehicle market grows and the company secures more contracts.

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NewsMay 7, 2013

Clean Energy and Mansfield Partner to Provide Natural Gas Fueling Solution

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. and Mansfield Energy Corp. have partnered to sell Clean Energy’s natural gas fueling station construction and operational services to their respective customers.

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NewsMay 7, 2013

Sylvania Lighting Services to Sell ChargePoint EV Charging Stations

Sylvania Lighting Services, a subsidiary of Osram Sylvania, announced a reseller agreement with ChargePoint to sell the company’s commercial and public electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in the U.S. Sylvania has already installed 33 EV charging stations in the city of Austin, Texas.

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