FedEx Freight Installs Fuel Cell Forklifts with Help from U.S. Department of Energy

Earlier this week, it was reported FedEx Freight would benefit from the .  FedEx is committed to operating and innovating in new ways that can help our business and our industry.  We seek fuel-efficient and environmentally beneficial technologies in an effort to maximize efficiencies.

This project will deploy 35 fuel cell systems as battery replacements for a complete fleet of electric lift trucks at FedEx Freight's service center in Springfield, Missouri.

Here are a few more ways that FedEx is working to deploy environentally efficient technologies to its vehicle fleet:

• FedEx currently operates the largest fleet of commercial hybrid trucks in North America with a goal to improve vehicle fuel efficiency 20 percent by 2020. We have adopted a Reduce, Replace, and Revolutionize strategy to meet this goal:
• In London, we introduced liquid petroleum gas (LPG) Mercedes-Benz sprinter vans, which reduce CO2 emissions by 12 percent. FedEx also plans to use 10 zero-emission electric delivery vehicles in the United Kingdom.
• We've been operating diesel-electric hybrids in North America since 2004. The fleet now has more than two million miles of service.
• In Japan, we teamed up with General Motors in the test operation of a fuel-cell delivery vehicle for one year.
• In Washington, D.C., we are operating biodiesel-fueled trucks and diesel-electric trucks.