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Citron launches Airdream Business label

It's common knowledge that most carmakers selling cars in Europe have a set of models that are a little "greener" than the rest of the line-up. Each OEM's respective marketing department created a set of evocative names for these models, like Citroën's Airdream. Now, Citroën has taken the good idea a step further: mating the green label to its fleet cars. This makes cars with reduced CO2 emissions and lower fuel consumption available to fleet users, and it also makes sense from an economic point of view, since lower fuel consumption ... Read more →

Volvo trucks offers Fuelwatch to help reducing fuel costs up to 10 percent Xavier Navarro

Electronic fleet management is becoming a useful resource for operators keeping an eye on operational costs. Probably, the most important part of these systems is monitoring fuel consumption for all ...

Volkswagen supplies 5,000 "green cars" for the Beijing Olympics Xavier Navarro

Click above for complete gallery The Beijing Olympics will have a complete fleet of 5,000 "green cars" by Volkswagen, which is an official sponsor. The chosen models are the Magotan 2.0 TDI (6.2 ...

San Francisco Mayor plugs in 3 PHEVs, makes a "soft" order for 250 more Lascelles Linton

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom made sure everyone knew the three converted plug-in hybrids that are now a part of the municipal fleet were PHEVs by plugging them in at a ceremony on Thursday. San ...

NY Times: San Franciciso city government wants your used vegetable oil to power its fleet of cars Lascelles Linton

As a blogger for AutoblogGreen, I read about waste vegetable oil used as a car fuel daily but I have to admit to a "WTF?" moment when reading about details of what fuels were used by San Francisco's ...

Green plan for fleet management 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

A Spanish Leasing/Renting company called LeasePlan (which actually manages company car fleets) has launched a program called GreenPlan which is an "efficient management program" based on vehicle CO2 emissions. The plan aims to balance green and "real driving" for its 8,000 customer companies and ...

Oh, if only we had those nifty, thrifty European favorites here. Wait.... 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The Volkswagen Golf (or Rabbit, if you're a Yank like me and always prefer a car's name to reference a potential meal rather than a game for old people) has just been awarded Car of the Year by ACFO, an organization that produces a bi-monthly journal called "Fleet Operator." CotY was awarded to the ...

DaimlerChrysler builds first F-Cell fire response vehicle 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

click photo to enlarge The Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District has scored a zero-emissions win by operating the Mercedes-Benz F-Cell as a supervisor's vehicle, effectively the first fuel cell-powered fire response vehicle. The Fire Service Mercedes-Benz F-Cell features a number of upgrades on the ...

In Australia, the bicycle is king 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

This statistic astounds me, but bicycle sales extended their lead over new car sales in Australia during 2006. Australia's peak bicycle promotion group, the Cycling Promotion Fund (CPF), says that 1,273,781 new bikes were sold last year, 32 percent more than new car and truck sales totalling ...


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