This week AT&T announced the deployment of its 1,000th alternative-fuel vehicle in its corporate fleet, a compressed natural gas (CNG) van in Oakland, California. The deployment is part of a $565 million planned investment announced in March 2009 to replace more than 15,000 fleet vehicles with fuel-efficient models through 2018. The initiative includes a $350 million fund to purchase approximately 8,000 CNG vehicles over a five-year period, which is the largest CNG project to date by an American company. AT&T expects to spend another $215 million through 2018 to replace 7,100 fleet passenger cars with alternative fuel models. AT&T expects this project to save 49 million gallons of gasoline over the next 10 years and to reduce carbon emissions by 211,000 metric tons.
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