Two weeks ago, the Center for American Progress issued American Fuel: Developing Natural Gas for Heavy Vehicles. This misleading and error-prone report strongly supports misguided policy concepts to subsidize heavily transitioning American transportation from one fossil fuel (oil) to a slightly lower polluting alternative (natural gas). Even though political momentum exists behind this concept, it […]
Entries Tagged as 'hybrid trucks'
CAP’s American Fuel: Contaminated on so many levels
April 27th, 2010 · 14 Comments
Tags: bus · climate change · Energy · environmental · fuel economy · gasoline · Global Warming · government energy policy · hybrid · hybrid trucks · pollution · t boone pickens · the pickens plan
Obama Admin Plugging In School Buses
April 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Hybrids are too often thought of simply in terms of personal vehicles. They are also penetrating the big vehicle market space. Consider the average delivery truck and all its starts/stops. There is a lot of energy to capture there, which is why UPS is pursuing hybrids. And, as per Walmart and its hybrid trucks, they […]
Tags: Congress · Energize America · Energy · government energy policy · hybrid · hybrid trucks · PHEV · politics · renewable energy · transportation
Plugging in for a better tomorrow: the school bus ‘solution’
December 16th, 2008 · 7 Comments
Hybrids are too often thought of simply in terms of personal vehicles. They are also penetrating the big vehicle market space. Consider the average delivery truck and all its starts/stops. There is a lot of energy to capture there, which is why UPS is pursuing hybrids. And, as per Walmart and its hybrid trucks, they […]
Tags: analysis · automobiles · bus · business practice · emissions · Energy · energy cool · energy efficiency · energy smart · environmental · fuel economy · gasoline · government energy policy · hybrid · hybrid trucks · oil · peak oil · PHEV · political symbols · politics
PHEBs: Plugging in that School Bus for an Energy Smart Future
November 12th, 2007 · 6 Comments
Hybrids are too often thought of simply in terms of personal vehicles. They are also penetrating the big vehicle market space. Consider the average delivery truck and all its starts/stops. There is a lot of energy to capture there, which is why UPS is pursuing hybrids. And, as per Walmart and its hybrid trucks, they […]
Tags: fuel economy · government energy policy · hybrid · hybrid trucks · PHEV
Walmart & its hybrid trucks …
March 19th, 2007 · 5 Comments
When it comes to Global Warming, there should be at least one arena of full agreement: there is no excuse not to be pursuing a “no regrets” strategy. E.g, pursuit of policies, programs, and technologies that make sense no matter whether you accept the weight of scientific evidence or are hoping that the skeptics at […]
Tags: energy efficiency · hybrid trucks · trucking · Wal-Mart