AT&T to Put Largest Green Car Fleet on Road. By Carl Pope, HuffPost, March 12, 2009. "OnThurday AT&T, which operates the largest fleet of vehicles in the world, said it would spend up to $565 million over ten years on alternative-fuel vehicles for its corporate fleet, a move aimed at cutting costs while promoting cleaner transportation fuels. The Dallas-based telecommunications provider will purchase 8,000 vehicles that run on compressed natural gas (CNG) for its fleet of installation and repair vans and replace about 7,100 passenger cars with hybrid models. The company will deploy 800 new CNG and hybrid electric vehicles in 2009... That's exciting, even wonderful, news. But the backstory is less cheerful. My sources indicate that AT&T was prepared to make an even larger commitment to CNG, but that the domestic auto industry wasn't willing to meet the customer demand -- and AT&T wanted in this economic moment to buy domestic."
2009-03-13
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