What can Brown Do for you? Go Green!

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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 2,100 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 though the truck is still brown on the outside, rest assured UPS is going green. I'm Elizabeth Chambers. Check back here for more eco friendly news and tips, right here on LivingGreenChannel.Com.

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• better fuel economy
• eaton corporation
• electric trucks
• green business
• green ups trucks
• hybrid ups trucks
• p1000 hhv trucks
• reduced co2 emissions

[whathuhwhere]

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.

[radstorm]

Cool, now they can lose my packages more ergonomically.

[unclemikeb]

@dtwmtl People are dying because they have ten children when they couldn't feed the first five. They are dying because of wars, and disease, and floods, and droughts. Some of that WE cannot change.

We need to at least consider green so we can say we didn't waste resources that might have made a difference. I'm not in favor of "green" that makes my life more difficult and pads the pockets of others such as the carbon credits gimmick. Al Gore-Goldman Sachs will profit highly from that.

[Me102288]

@moneymagnetelizabeth propane and natural gas has been used for decades..nothing new.... electic hybrids are also known to be the most ineffecient way use HYDROGEN.

[BackyardNature]

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.

[hitl0r]

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!

[Marle111]

My toilet is brown

[dtwmtl]

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!