Under the agreement, Mobileye's sensors will be retrofitted onto Ordnance's utility fleets to collect volumes of location data on road networks and roadside infrastructure.
EV America, a national coalition sponsored by the electric utilities, will place orders in the next few months for 5,000 electric vehicles, primarily for utility fleets.
Hubert Bianco, the superintendent for Freeport's electric utility, said the fleet vehicles would be charged overnight.
In 1987 and 1988, before Americans developed a fascination with gasoline-hungry sport utility vehicles, the fleet averaged 22.1 m.p.g.
For now, only utility companies and other fleet customers can buy one of the $45,000 sport utility trucks from the initial 500-unit run.
MANHASSET - JOINING the trend to environmentally friendly cars, the Town of North Hempstead has added 7 hybrid sport utility vehicles to its fleet of 48 traditional gasoline-powered cars and trucks.
Potentially on the block along with VTB are stakes in Rosneft, the state-owned oil company; RusHydro, the national hydroelectric utility; and Sovcomflot, a fleet of state-owned merchant ships.
This was a big deal, because Sempra, the nation's largest gas utility, was building a fleet of gas-fired power plants.
Cities traditionally budget staff at 50 to 70% of revenue to allow 30 to 50% for maintenance programs including: streets, city buildings, infrastructure, equipment and fleet replacement, utility and fuel costs, insurance and community improvements.
AS horizontal drilling and the controversial extraction technique known as fracking have made domestically produced natural gas more available and sharply cheaper, that gas has been widely embraced by industry, electric utilities and trucking fleets.
