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By Danny King, Contributor


FedEx and United Parcel Service appear to be playing a game of "can you top this" when it comes to alternative-fuel vehicles. Which isn't a bad thing.


FedEx will start operating four battery-electric powered trucks in the Los Angeles area in June, marking the first-ever U.S.-operated EVs to join the delivery company's more than 1,800 alternative-fuel vehicles and following up competitor UPS's efforts to cut fuel use through more hybrid-electric trucks and more streamlined delivery processes.


Indiana-based Navistar, which built 10 EVs that FedEx uses in London and is building five more for Paris, built two of the new U.S. EVs, which are being unveiled today in Chicago, while another manufacturer FedEx didn't identify will build the other two, FedEx said in a statement today.


While FedEx didn't specify the EV's single-charge range, the company said the vehicles will be able to complete an eight-hour shift on a single charge.


"Electric trucks are still in their infancy, but we think they have a bright future in the mix of alternative energy vehicles," Mitch Jackson, vice president of environmental affairs and sustainability for FedEx Corp., said in the statement.
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Tags: Batteries, Emissions, Fuel Economy, Plug-ins and Electric, Battery-Electric Vehicle, BEV, Federal Express, FedEx, UPS Hybrids, Zero Emissions

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Federal Express Electrifies Its U.S. Fleet of Delivery Trucks With Addition of 4 BEVs was originally published by Green Car Advisor. Read the full story by clicking here.