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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:53 pm Post subject: UPS Goes Green
Ups is using a small fleet of electric trucks to deliver packages. Cool
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UPS to Use ZAP Electric Car and Truck Fleet for Deliveries
PETALUMA, CA -- (November 13, 2007) -- It will be a green holiday this season for United Parcel Service (UPS), who rolled out a small parcel delivery service this week in Northern California using 42 electric cars and trucks from ZAP (OTCBB: ZAAP).
The UPS branch in Petaluma, California has leased an initial fleet of 42 ZAP Xebra® electric city cars and trucks for their small parcel deliveries. This is the first time that UPS has used electric city-speed vehicles for this purpose.
Small parcel deliveries are becoming more challenging for the trademark big, brown UPS delivery vans, which is why UPS is using the electric city cars and trucks to handle small parcel deliveries. The ZAP vehicles lessen fuel consumption and reduce automotive emissions produced by current delivery vehicles. Drivers will be monitoring their electrical usage to carefully analyze cost-savings and emissions reductions... more
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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:09 pm Post subject: Re: UPS Goes Green
Good news - we need delivery vehicles to scale down so we can go back to having tighter curbs & narrower, more walkable streets and neighborhoods. This effects of this move will indirectly be a boon for property values.
We need fire trucks to do the same as well. _________________ "It's called the American Dream because you'd have to be asleep to believe it."
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