National Clean Fleets Partner: GE
GE plans to purchase 25,000 electric vehicles worldwide by 2015 for use as company cars and for lease to corporate customers through its Fleet Services business. In September 2011, the company broke ground on a customer learning center that will help GE commercial customers evaluate EVs and other alternative fuel vehicles for their fleets.
Fast Facts
- Joined the National Clean Fleets Partnership: June 2011
- Headquarters: Eden Prairie, MN
- Operations: United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand
- Strategies and Technologies: Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, electric vehicles, natural gas, propane, hydrogen, electric vehicle charging, telematics
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Clean Fleets News
May 31, 2012
GE opens Innovation Center for alternative fuel vehicles
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. – GE Capital Fleet Services announced today the opening of its Vehicle Innovation Center, a world-class facility that provides businesses, industry groups, and researchers with a first-hand experience with alternative fuel vehicles and enabling GE technologies.
The first-of-its-kind center reinforces GE's commitment to the deployment of more efficient vehicles in its fleet and in customer fleets. Showcasing the latest in a growing array of alternative fuel vehicles in electric, natural gas, propane, hydrogen, and other formats, the center gives GE's commercial customers the opportunity to learn about and test drive numerous alternative fuel cars and trucks in a single location with assistance from GE's fleet, transportation, energy, and advanced technology experts.
"At GE, we are at work, providing solutions to the world's toughest challenges," said Clarence Nunn, president and CEO of GE Capital Fleet Services. "Through our Vehicle Innovation Center, we are committed to sharing alternative fuel vehicle technologies and solutions with our customers and helping them put more of these vehicles on the road."