FedEx announces environmental pledge

The company says that it will reduce the carbon output of its planes and trucks by 20% by 2020.

The company announced that it will reduce the carbon output of its planes and trucks by 20 percent in 12 years.

FedEx operates 672 planes and more than 80,000 trucks, which is why most of its environmental initiatives are focused on transportation. So far, the company has put 170 hybrid electric vehicles on the road in North America, and while that’s an unimpressive .2-percent of its total fleet, it’s a start. The company says that these E700 hybrids have now racked up more than two million miles, and that the vehicles improve fuel efficiency by 42-percent.

Rival UPS drives more than 20,000 low emission vehicles and is testing hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in Ontario, CA and Ann Arbor, MI.