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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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NewsSeptember 15, 2009

PHH GreenFleet Averages 7-Percent Reduction in Fleet Operating Costs and 14-Percent Reduction in Emissions

SPARKS, MD - In addition, companies improved their miles per gallon an average of 16 percent in their first year of utilizing PHH GreenFleet, according to PHH Arval.

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NewsSeptember 15, 2009

Modified Prius Runs on Algae-Based Biofuel

SAN FRANCISCO --- Author and filmmaker Josh Tickell has embarked on a transcontinental tour driving a modified Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid, which runs on electricity and a fuel mixture that includes algae-based biofuel from Sapphire Energy.

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NewsSeptember 15, 2009

Kentucky Steps Up Biofuel Efforts

FRANKFORT, KY --- Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has formed an executive task force on biomass and biofuels development in Kentucky.

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NewsSeptember 15, 2009

Mascoma, Chevron Enter into Ethanol Feedstock Pact

LEBANON, NH --- Mascoma Corp. on Sept. 14 said it has entered into a feedstock processing and lignin supply agreement with Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV), a division of Chevron U.S.A. Inc.

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NewsSeptember 15, 2009

Mitsubishi, Peugeot Sign Electric Car Agreement

TOKYO, JAPAN --- Japan's Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said it has signed a contract that spells out its agreement with France's Peugeot-Citroen to cooperate in developing and marketing electric cars.

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NewsSeptember 15, 2009

Ford Researchers Develop Greener Auto Materials

DEARBORN, MI --- Ford Motor Co.'s soy-based polyurethane foam seat cushions and seatbacks are now on more than 1.5 million Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles on the road today, representing a reduction in petroleum usage of approximately 1.5 million pounds.

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NewsSeptember 15, 2009

California Fines Construction Firm for Truck Emissions

SACRAMENTO, CA --- The California Air Resources Board fined Dateland Construction Co. Inc $31,950 last month for emissions violations during 2007 and 2008.

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NewsSeptember 14, 2009

Nassau County to Purchase 40 CNG Dump Trucks

MINEOLA, NY - Nassau County has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for the purchase of forty environmentally-friendly compressed natural gas (CNG) dump trucks for the Department of Public Works.

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NewsSeptember 14, 2009

Sonoma County Improves Fuel Efficiency with GPS

SAN DIEGO - The County of Sonoma, Calif., has completed its pilot phase of Networkfleet's diagnostic and GPS tracking system to reduce fuel costs and lower greenhouse emissions for the county's fleet of 1,000 vehicles.

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NewsSeptember 14, 2009

HEVs Used By Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield

FORT STEWART, GA - Of the nearly 500 hybrid-electric vehicles (HEVs) already delivered to Army installations, seventeen are now part of Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield's general dispatch fleet or maintenance vehicles.

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