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Project Title: Emissions testing of prototype diesel/electric hybrid commercial pickup/delivery vehicles (PUDs) and assessment of potential emission reductions in the Houston-Galveston non-attainment area from widespread use in delivery fleets.
Project Goals and Objectives
- To encourage FedEx Express to place its hybrid electric delivery trucks in the Houston-Galveston non-attainment region once they are developed.
- To perform emission testing of two prototype hybrid electric pickup/delivery vehicles to be available for this purpose in the fall of 2002.
- To evaluate the potential emission reductions from widespread implementation of these vehicles in the Houston region.
- To identify mechanisms, barriers and incentives for use of these vehicles in Houston and other areas in Texas.
- To inform fleet managers and policy makers about this technology and its potential air quality effects
Support of TCET Objectives
The Texas Council on Environmental Technologies was established to identify and evaluate new technologies and to facilitate deployment of those technologies that would provide measurable and creditable air quality benefits in Texas.
This project would support these goals by collecting and evaluating data on the emission benefits of an emerging technology affecting a major target for on-road emission reductions including both NOx and fine particulate reductions. It would demonstrate the potential emission benefits for the Houston-Galveston non-attainment region once such vehicles are available for deployment. Furthermore, the fleet sponsor of the project, FedEx Express, is pursuing a fast track program for full-scale production and deployment of this new technology. This project supports the aims of that effort, which intends to place vehicles on the road by 2004. As such, this project represents an essential step in the process of introducing potentially much cleaner vehicles within a relatively short time horizon relevant to the State Implementation Plan.
| Project Lead: | HARC |
| Project Subcontractors: | The Alliance for Environmental Innovation - a program of Environmental Defense; Southwest Research Institute |
| Funding Support: | Texas Council on Environmental Technology |
Documents
For additional information please contact David Hitchcock at dhitchcock@harc.edu.
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Bill Barker, lead HARC analyst for the project, and Bashar Zeitoon, project analyst for Environmental Defense.
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Eaton hybrid electric diesel truck built for FedEx Express
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