Purolator delivers, but will others follow?
Here’s a column of mine that appears in today’s Star, which takes a closer look at Purolator’s decision to begin transforming its delivery fleet to hybrid vehicles. It also discusses the lack of government support when it comes to encouraging corporate fleet operators to make similar moves. Purolator, by taking the plunge, is hoping to show that the decision makes business sense in the long term. Maybe then, its CEO speculates, will the government see the logic in mandating fleet conversion and providing incentives that will smooth the transition.
(Update: Noticed today (June 
that United Parcel Service of America Inc. has ordered 800 new delivery trucks from two Ontario truckmakers for $5.6 million. While it would have been nice to see UPS making a purchase of 800 hybrids, I found this link on the company’s Web site and ”Brown” appears to be quite progressive in this area.)
Tyler Hamilton is senior energy reporter and columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the cleantech market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper. Tyler can be reached at tyler@cleanbreak.ca