AT&T to Deploy More Than 15,000 Alternative-Fuel Vehicles

 

AT&T recently announced plans to invest up to $565 million to deploy more than 15,000 alternative-fuel vehicles over the next 10 years. AT&T expects to spend an estimated $350 million to purchase about 8,000 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) vehicles and approximately $215 million to begin replacing its passenger cars with alternative-fuel models. 

This will bring AT&T’s alternative-fuel fleet to more than 15,000 vehicles by 2019 and this year, the company will deploy nearly 800 of the CNG and hybrid electric vehicles.

The Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Michigan, estimates that the new vehicles will save 49 million gallons of gasoline and reduce carbon emissions by 211,000 metric tons over the 10-year deployment period – that’s the equivalent of removing the emissions from more than 38,600 traditional passenger vehicles for an entire year!