FedEx Adding 4,000 New, Fuel-Efficient Vehicles
FedEx Express said it will add more than 4,000 fuel-efficient vehicles to its fleet around the country, including some all-electric vehicles.
The FedEx Corp. unit also will add more hybrid-electrics, using composite vehicles and upgrade more than 10% of its conventional vehicle fleet to more energy-efficient vehicles, the company said in a statement.
“We are using efficient technologies that are readily available now, while investing in innovative technologies that we hope and believe can be vehicle workhorses for the future,” said Dennis Beal, FedEx’s vice president of global vehicles.
“Our goal has always been to optimize and operate our vehicle fleet in an economically and environmentally sustainable manner, so that emissions are reduced while serving our customers in the best possible manner,” he said in a statement.
FedEx Express also said that:
• In New York, it will be work with General Electric and Columbia University’s Engineering School to study energy grid impacts in an effort to project how large vehicle deployments would impact the energy grid.
• In Chicago, it will compare all-electric vehicle technologies to determine what works best for its fleet needs;
• In its corporate headquarters of Memphis, Tenn., it will retrofit existing vehicles to make them all-electrics, saving resources through using existing vehicle bodies. FedEx has also added five Transit Connect Electric vans from Ford Motor Co. and Azure Dynamics.
• In Los Angeles, it is diversifying its fleet, adding an FCCC eCell to its current four Navistar eStar all-electric vehicles, and is in the midst of adding 45 new FCCC-Eaton hybrid-electric pickup and delivery vehicles to its fleet.
FedEx Corp. is ranked No. 2 on the Transport Topics 100 listing of U.S. and Canadian for-hire carriers.
