Sentences with phrase «converting truck fleets»

Especially when you realize how much of the US energy mix goes to transportation: Converting truck fleets to natural gas and electrifying cars may not be the environmental winner it's conventionally thought to be.

The company is also converting its truck fleet from diesel fuel to more environmentally friendly compressed natural gas and is aiming to reduce its landfill - bound waste by 50 percent in the next five years.

Not exact matches

Budweiser beer maker Anheuser - Busch said on Thursday it reserved up to 800 hydrogen - fueled semi-trucks from Nikola Motor Company as part of plans to convert its dedicated long - haul fleet to renewable powered trucks by 2025.

Over the past months, the company has converted ten percent of its truck fleet to environmentally - friendly fuels, as its tests out both electric trucks and CNG trucks in advance of a full conversion.

One is that replacing utility power is one thing, but [a] lot of the total energy in the country goes in transportation, so another big assumption is that you'd largely have to convert the U.S. passenger fleet to hybrid plug - in cars and trucks, all that, so that essentially you are fueling vehicles with electricity as well.

Typically fleet vehicles like city buses and utility company trucks are the easiest to convert.

The government ought to have a plan to convert the US Mail jeep and truck fleet to hybrid technology already.

We're talking about a world where California gets more than 50 percent of its electricity from renewables in 2030 (up from 25 percent today), where zero - emissions vehicles are 25 percent of the fleet by 2035 (up from about 1 percent today), where high - speed rail is displacing car travel, where biofuels have replaced a significant chunk of diesel in heavy - duty trucks, where pastures are getting converted to forests, where electricity replaces natural gas in heating, and on and on.