EPA awarded the grant to the Northwest Hybrid
Truck Consortium as part of its National Clean Diesel Campaign
to encourage and facilitate leading-edge voluntary diesel emissions
reductions throughout the country. This grant will help facilitate
the purchase of 10 of the newest, cleanest hybrid diesel-electric
utility trucks on the market today. Consortium members are providing
$1.5 million in matching funds for the project. The Consortium’s
effort is one of the first of its kind in the country to apply
the diesel-electric hybrid technology to utility fleet vehicles.
It will not only provide immediate benefits in cleaner air,
but will help manufactures improve the technology and begin
to create new markets for the heavy-duty hybrid technology.
