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EPA SmartWay honors 44 freight carriers for exceptional supply chain efficiency

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Since 2004, SmartWay Partners have avoided emitting more than 72 million metric tons of carbon pollution, while saving more than 170 million barrels of oil and $24.9 Davis Transfer Co. Mercury Services, Inc. billion in fuel costs—equivalent to eliminating annual energy use in over six million homes. Curtis Trucking, Inc.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. We Promote PHEV Conversion Programs: First CalCars in 2004, then a number of aftermarket companies, have converted over 200 cars — at first most were for fleets, but more and more are going to individual owners.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans. San Jose Mercury News ). Davis Illingworth, a senior vice president with Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., Daimler/Mercedes Took over Daimler/Chrysler Sprinter PHEV program. If that target is met, the largest U.S.

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