advertising Senior leadership from PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay North America division was joined today by California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., Matt Rodriquez, secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency and Gregory Winterbottom, chairman of the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee to announce the growth of Frito-Lay’sCalifornia electric truck fleet. Once all of the vehicles are deployed by the end of 2012, California will be [...]
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EVI Launches Pilot Electric Truck Program with Frito-Lay
March 29th, 2012 
Aaron Turpen advertising Electric Vehicles International (EVI) has announced the launch of an electric vehicle pilot trial with Frito-Lay North America, which has the seventh largest privately owned commercial fleet. EVI’s signature all-electric powertrain is seamlessly integrated into an industry standard Daimler Freightliner M2 business class chassis providing customers with significant fuel and maintenance savings. The EVI-MD is the [...]
Posted in Electric Vehicles, Featured 
Tags: electric vehicle, evi, Frito-Lay, Frito-Lay North America 
3 Comments »North American Council for Freight Efficiency announces results from its fleet fuel management efficiency study
March 3rd, 2012 Aaron Turpen The North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE) recently announced the results from its fleet fuel efficiency study with eight of the world’s largest fleets—Werner Enterprises, Frito Lay, C.R. England, Challenger Motor Freight, Schneider National, Con-Way Truckload, GTI and Ryder—representing 75,000 tractors and 130,000 trailers. The study highlights successful applications of new products and practices that provide fuel savings [...]
Posted in Other Alt Fuels Tags: Con-Way Truckload, CR England, Frito-Lay, Fuel efficiency, Ryder, Schneider National, Werner Enterprises No Comments »
Frito-Lay Putting 176 More Electric Trucks Into Service
December 23rd, 2011 Aaron Turpen Frito-Lay North America division is introducing 8 new electric trucks in the Boston area as part of a larger 176-unit electric fleet rollout in North America; once those are deployed, Frito-Lay will have the largest commercial fleet of all-electric trucks in North America. The trucks, designed by Smith Electric Vehicles, operate for up to 100 miles (161 [...]
