The United Parcel Service has added several dozen hybrid hydraulic delivery vans to its alternative-fuel fleet.
Or the Rio Hondo College of Automotive Technology where hundreds of technicians have gained the training necessary to fill jobs maintaining the alternative fuel fleets of municipalities throughout Southern California.
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Intra-route facilities are used in the context of city logistics or alternative fuel vehicle fleets to keep vehicles operational on routes.
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These efforts, which come as the amount of goods being shipped through the city by some freight railroads continues to increase, have won praise from some transportation advocates and residents who see rail as an alternative to the fleets of trucks congesting roadways and spewing fumes into surrounding communities.
Most of the vehicles on Long Island that use alternative fuels belong to fleet owners with their own fuel facilities, including the state and both county governments.
Logistics giant UPS will deploy a prototype electric vehicle featuring a fuel cell range-extender in its Rolling Laboratory fleet of alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles.
Marguerite Downey, the alternative-fuels manager for the Postal Service, said biodiesel was "our most successful new fuel program, and we have more experience than any other fleet with alternative fuel".
But Cowan points out that the gas refrigerator was just one of a fleet of alternative appliances — from the waterless toilet to the home composter — that could have created a very different relationship between the American consumer and the environment.
