Frito-Lay Is Among the Customers at Four-Position Station
Northville Natural Gas has opened its first compressed natural gas fueling station, at Frankfort, Ind. The new public access facility is located off I-65 at Exit 158.
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Northville CNG for Frankfort, Indiana
Frito-Lay Seeks CNG
Floats RFP for Large Public Stations that It Will Anchor
Frito-Lay is seeking to help establish a viable compressed natural gas fueling infrastructure nationwide, and has tasked its FL Transportation Inc. unit to find builders of large, public-access CNG stations. Frito-Lay will itself be the anchor customer, committing if necessary to specific CNG usage volumes.
Bids are due at the end of next month (details below).
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Frito-Lay CNG Trucks in Wisconsin
Trillium CNG for Fueling, More Stations as Fleet Expands
PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay is adding 12 new long-haul CNG trucks to its fleet in Beloit, Wisc., to distribute product across the upper Midwest (Wisconsin, Illinois, and parts of Indiana, Iowa, and Minnesota).
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Frito-Lay Closes in on 300-EV Fleet
Frito-Lay Talks Up California’s Largest EV Truck Fleet
“California will be home to 105 all-electric delivery trucks, the largest deployment in any state,” PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay North America unit said last week as the company hosted officials including California Governor Jerry Brown at the Frito-Lay distribution center in Torrance, Calif.
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First EVI Battery Trucks to UPS
Stockton, Calif.-based Electric Vehicles International has begin delivery of 100 fully battery electric delivery trucks to UPS.
post updated on August 13
100 More Smith EVs for Frito-Lay
With a Million Miles Logged, Firm Vows to ‘Quickly Accelerate’
Pure battery electric trucks operated by PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay North America division “have charged their way to a million miles,” the company said May 10, noting that 176 vehicles from Smith Electric Vehicles have eliminated the need for approximately 200,000 gallons of diesel fuel – and will be augmented by 100 Newton Series 2000 Smith EVs this taking the all-electric fleet to more than 280 units.
Frito-Lay also operates Daimler Freightliner M2-chassis battery trucks from California’s Electric Vehicles International (the EVI-MD; F&F, March 26).
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Frito-Lay Adding Natural Gas Trucks
Frito-Lay is adding 49 compressed natural gas Freightliner trucks to a test fleet of 18, and will deploy them at upwards of half a dozen locations to gauge their performance.
“Our strategy is to put several units in six or seven locations,” senior fleet director Mike O’Connell told F&F.
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EVI Targets 500 E-Trucks
Relationships with CARB & CEC and Air Districts Are Cited,
As Well as EVI’s Ties to Large, Well Known Commercial Fleets
Electric Vehicles International wants to capitalize on its ties to California government agencies and its relationships with fleets like UPS, Frito-Lay and Pacific Gas & Electric – and place 500 return-to-base battery electric delivery trucks in service within two years.
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Five More EVI Medium Trucks for Frito-Lay
Following a successful trial, Stockton, Calif.-based Electric Vehicles International has kicked off an expanded electric vehicle pilot project with Frito-Lay, which EVI notes has North America’s seventh-largest privately owned fleet.
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ClipperCreek for PepsiCo/Frito-Lay
Lime Energy and SCIenergy Install CS-100s
For Battery Smith EVs in Vast Frito-Lay Fleet
PepsiCo/Frito-Lay’s not talking, but industry sources concur that Lime Energy and SCIenergy have installed Level II ClipperCreek chargers to support nearly 200 battery electric Newton trucks operated by the snack food giant across the U.S.
Frito-Lay driver Shannon Douglas charges a Smith Newton with ClipperCreek charger at recent Frito-Lay open house in Orlando (reported at pluginrecharge.com, photo by Mark Thomason of Palmer Electric)
PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay North America unit said last year that it would deploy 176 battery electric trucks from Smith Electric Vehicles (F&F, September 20, 2010). Frito-Lay is Smith’s largest customer, accounting for 66% of its vehicle sales, or more than $21 million, for the first six months of 2011. Frito-Lay operates more than 20,000 vehicles, Smith notes.
Lime Energy said late last month that it’s completed the design and installation of 90 electric vehicle chargers in California, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York under a $2 million contract. Lime won’t name its customer, but confirms that the work involves ClipperCreek chargers in support of Smith EVs.
“Lime embraced the opportunity to provide a solution,” executive VP for operations Jim Smith said in a release.
‘A Savings of 30-40%’
As Servidyne, SCIenergy secured a similar contract, reporting that a 10-charger pilot program in Fort Worth led to a $1.75 million contract to install chargers at eight more sites for a total of nearly 80 in seven states (including Florida, where ClipperCreek chargers for Smith EVs could be seen at a recent Frito-Lay open house, detailed at pluginrecharge.com). Servidyne and Scientific Conservation, Inc. merged this past summer to form SCIenergy.
According to Lime Energy, “The benefits of utilizing electric vehicles continue to accrue in today’s marketplace. Along with state and federal grants, electric vehicles offer reduced annual maintenance costs, more favorable utility rates, and integrated controls. One-third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions come from the transportation sector, and switching vehicles from liquid fuels to the electric grid will have a dramatic impact on emission reduction goals,” the company said late last month.
illustration from a Servidyne case study shows ClipperCreek charger and ‘snack food company’ electric truck
“Ultimately, our customers can achieve a savings of 30-40% by switching to electric delivery vehicles as part of their overall energy efficiency program design,” said John O’Rourke, Lime’s President and CEO. “This offers an attractive return on investment and Lime’s unique capability to design and install these charging stations will continue to be a part of our portfolio of clean energy solutions.”
ClipperCreek’s CS-100 charger is rated at a powerful 80 amps continuous. ClipperCreek claims the first UL-approved EVSE (electric vehicle supply equipment) line produced in America.
