The Alliance for Environmental Innovation Changing the way business thinks about the environment. The Alliance for Environmental Innovation is working with FedEx Express to develop a new generation of pick up and delivery trucks. The project's goal is to have a truck that will work as well as FedEx's current white delivery trucks and cost about the same over the vehicle's lifetime. With exciting new vehicle technology in development and impending regulations affecting diesel trucks, the Alliance-FedEx partnership signals a demand for transportation options that meet business needs and minimize impact on the environment.
Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas linked to global climate change.
The Alliance-FedEx project will be conducted in four phases using an aggressive timeline designed to push development of vehicles in advance of regulatory requirements. The first phase is the development of a performance specification for a new truck, followed by a second phase involving development and testing of one or more prototypes. After prototype analysis, several pre-production trucks will be produced and tested in the third phase. Finally, FedEx aims to begin purchasing full-production level vehicles that meet the project's environmental and business targets. The entire project is expected to take 3-4 years.