As AT&T press release informed, these landmarks are part of a $565 million planned investment announced in March 2009 to replace more than 15,000 fleet vehicles with alternative fuel models through 2018. Currently, the AT&T corporate fleet includes more than 75,900 vehicles.
The company anticipates purchasing approximately 8,000 CNG vehicles over a five-year period at an anticipated cost of $350 million, and expects to spend an additional $215 million through 2018 to replace 7,100 fleet passenger cars with alternative fuel models.
Jerome Webber, vice president for AT&T Fleet Operations said: “The deployment of our 2,000th alternative fuel vehicle is a significant milestone in an ongoing effort to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. To continue making progress, we are working with our suppliers and local municipalities to encourage the expansion of support infrastructure, which would allow the introduction of more fuel efficient vehicles in communities around the USA.”
According to the Center for Automotive Research (CAR), this initiative will save 49 million gallons of gasoline over the 10-year deployment period and will reduce carbon emissions by 211,000 metric tons -the greenhouse gas equivalent of removing 147,929 passenger vehicles from the road for one year.
