Weekly Clean Energy Roundup:May 28, 2003

*News and Events FedEx Introduces New Hybrid Electric Delivery Vehicles Three GM SUVs to Feature “Displacement on Demand” in 2005 Students on Cross-Country Trip in Vegetable-Oil-Fueled Bus St. Paul Cogeneration Starts Up a 25-MW Wood-Fired CHP Plant DynaMotive to Build Several BioOil Production Facilities POWER-GEN to Launch Renewable Energy Conference with ACRE*Site NewsUtah Wind*Energy Connections IEA Launches Database of Renewable Energy Policies ———————————————————————-NEWS AND EVENTS———————————————————————-FedEx Introduces New Hybrid Electric Delivery VehiclesFedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corporation, unveiled a fuel-efficient hybrid-electric-diesel delivery vehicle last week that could become a standard delivery truck for the FedEx Express fleet. The FedEx OptiFleet E700 hybrid electric vehicle increases fuel efficiency by 50 percent while decreasing particulate emissions by 90 percent and reducing smog-causing emissions by 75 percent. Thus far, FedEx Express has agreed to purchase 20 OptiFleet E700s that will be deployed in four U.S. cities within the next year. FedEx expects to order more trucks as needed, and could potentially replace the company’s 30,000 medium-duty delivery trucks with hybrid electrics over the next decade.Eaton Corporation produced the hybrid electric powertrain for the vehicle, combining a four-cylinder engine with a motor and a Lithium-ion battery pack. FedEx worked with Environmental Defense to produce […]

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