UPS has purchased 130 diesel hybrid electric vehicles to add to their fleet.

They will be completed and put into service in 2011, with 30 going to NY/NJ, and 100 going to California. UPS estimates a savings of 66,085 gallons of fuel and 671 metric tons of CO2 annually… a 35% improvement in fuel economy – the equivalent of removing 128 passenger cars from the road.

UPS currently has 2,022 alternative fuel vehicles in operation such as: Hybrid Electric, Compressed Natural Gas, Liquefied Natural Gas, Propane and ‘All Electric’.

If I rent a Hybrid car for one roadtrip, I will save enough energy to surf the web for 585 hours. If 1,000 people joined me we could, for a year, take 24 cars off the road!