UPS expands UK green fleet
UPS has announced the deployment of fourteen purpose-built electric vehicles, increasing the size of its UK green fleet to twenty vehicles. Twelve of the new vehicles join UPS’s existing fleet of electric vehicles operating out of the company’s Camden facility. The other two extend the reach of the green fleet, becoming the first to operate out of UPS’s facility in Barking. The all-electric vehicles will form a key part of the UPS fleet that will serve many of the host venues before, during and after the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The new vehicles already sport the London 2012 logo which can be seen on UPS’s entire 3,600-unit UK fleet. Globally, UPS has been utilising alternative fuel vehicles for more than seventy years. Most recently, the company announced the purchase of 130 next-generation HEVs, adding to its growing alternative-fuel vehicle fleet in the US. UPS already operates one of the largest private alternative-fuel fleets in the package delivery industry – 1,949 in total. The fleet is deployed in eight countries besides the US, and has travelled more than 185 million miles since 2000. Quelle: eyefortransport |