What can Brown Do for you? Go Green!
By GoingEcoGreen on May 26, 2010 with Comments 16
Check out livinggreenchannel.com for more videos. UPS has revolutionized the shipping industry and has changed how business is conducted. This increased efficiency and reliability has come with a major price tag for the economy. To help curb the use of natural resources UPS joined with the EPA, the Eaton Corporation, and military vehicle manufacturer Navistar International Corporation to develop and road test a more eco friendly delivery truck. The result was the P1000 HHV Hydraulic Hybrid truck, which could be hitting UPS delivery routes by the first quarter of 2009. In their first road tests, the trucks have achieved 40-50 percent better fuel efficiency than standard UPS trucks and a 30 percent reduction in CO2 emissions. The trucks combine a high efficiency diesel engine with a hydraulic propulsion system, and drivers who have tested them say they are quieter and produce less harmful fumes. After 18 months of road testing the new trucks, UPS put in an initial order of seven hydraulic hybrids, which became the first commercial purchase for a truck using the groundbreaking technology. If the Hydraulic Hybrid technology proves successful when the trucks are taken on the road, UPS expects to eventually add more HHVs to their growing green fleet, which already includes a diverse group of 2100 electric, hybrid electric, compressed natural gas, liquified natural gas, and propane powered delivery trucks. The new HHVs are slightly bigger than standard UPS delivery trucks. Even …
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Good update. Hydraulic Hybrids…Hmmm. Will have to check that out. Aren’t people getting creative? Hopefully, America will apply our innovative muscles to revitalize our habitat…and make life sustainable again. We can all pitch in… each in our own unique way. But the days of waste are no longer to be admired.
Enough with this “rational thought” nonsense you keep spewing! What is wrong with you, can’t you see this is youtube comments!? Rah! Rah! Rah!
My toilet is brown
Uh…going green does help people. A huge proportion of those “people dying” are doing so because of environment related circumstances, eg. climate change induced droughts and floods, and if you don’t save the frickin animals/fish = food shortages…..
Dumbass.
Enough with the going green! There are people dying everywhere on this planet and you shitheads are more concerned about the freaking environment, animals, fish, shrimp, ants etc. Get a f*%king life!
UPS is a cutting edge company, it would be great to get actual interviews with the drivers.
There are a lot of politics involved. Is the short answer. Believe me they tried, the big three decided to ignore the projects and allowed petty brand issues to get in the way.
hmmmmmmmmmmm….
who cares i drive a 1975 p-800 every day no power steering no heat no nothing
if this is shown to theLAMBDA THETA PHI Latin Fraternity (Inc.) Brothers they will not be happy.
Great job!
The term “green” is a misnomer. How can you use the term on both sides of the equation meaning greenhouse gas and going green? It is just a stupid slogan. Eco is much better or energy efficient. Why has not the EPA shown this to the general public after 20 years of development?
I am using usps as much as I can, everytime because post office is still greener.
Cool, now they can lose my packages more ergonomically.
Why not algae bio-diesel?
We should have come up with this earlier…before it’s too late. What gets me is ALL of a sudden we care about the earth? I mean it’s good that we are finally using technology for good instead of convenience, let’s just hope it stays that way.