{"id":33496,"date":"2018-03-08T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/puget-sound-energy-fleet-gets-cleaner\/"},"modified":"2018-03-08T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T19:30:00","slug":"puget-sound-energy-fleet-gets-cleaner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/puget-sound-energy-fleet-gets-cleaner\/","title":{"rendered":"Puget Sound Energy fleet gets cleaner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Puget Sound Energy has 40 cleaner vehicles hitting the streets this month. The new fleet vehicles were converted into gas\/electric hybrids.<\/p>\n<p>The upgrade is expected to reduce each van&rsquo;s carbon footprint by 20 percent and increase fuel economy as much as 25 percent.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We know our customers value the environment, so we were excited for the opportunity to reduce our carbon footprint through our fleet vehicles,&rdquo; said Wayne Gould, director of Corporate Shared Services at Puget Sound Energy. &ldquo;This is another step for PSE to invest in the development of cleaner alternatives and technologies.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>PSE is working with XL Hybrid to do the conversion, which adds an electric motor and advanced lithium-ion battery pack, as well as control software to the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The system lets PSE vans save fuel by allowing the electric motor to slow the vehicle down as it comes to a stop, while at the same time charging the hybrid battery. The energy stored in the battery is then used to help move the vehicle when the driver accelerates.<\/p>\n<p>The upgrade is part of a bigger plan to outfit another 20 fleet vehicles from petroleum to a hybrid system this year. All of the converted vehicles have the potential of reducing PSE&rsquo;s carbon footprint by about 1.3 Million pounds of CO2 annually.<\/p>\n<p>The conversion of these vehicles is in line with PSE&rsquo;s commitment to reduce its carbon footprint by 50 percent by 2040.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p7SskdLxE-c&#038;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">video of the hybrid conversion<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New hybrid vehicles will reduce carbon emissions <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":33497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-33496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33496"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=33496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}