Frito-Lay Rolls Out Growing Fleet Of All-Electric Delivery Trucks

Senior leadership from PepsiCo's Frito-Lay North America division was joined on August 9 by California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., Matt Rodriquez, Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency, and Gregory Winterbottom, Chairman of the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee to announce the growth of Frito-Lay's California electric truck fleet. Once all of the vehicles are deployed by the end of 2012, California will be home to 105 all-electric delivery trucks, the largest deployment in any state.

By the end of this year, Frito-Lay will have more than 275 electric trucks deployed in the U.S., making Frito-Lay the largest commercial fleet of all-electric trucks in the country. In May of this year, Frito-Lay reached a milestone of one million all-electric miles driven.

The initial rollout of all-electric trucks in California has already eliminated the need for an estimated 50,000 gallons of fuel and one million pounds of greenhouse gases. When all 105 trucks are deployed by the end of this year, Frito-Lay expects to eliminate 200,000 gallons of fuel and nearly 4.5 million pounds of greenhouse gases annually in the state of California. The new all-electric trucks will operate from distribution centers located throughout California: Alameda, City of Industry, La Mirada, Manteca, San Diego, San Jose, and Torrance.

To support the introduction of all-electric vehicles to the state of California, Frito-Lay received a grant from the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee (MSRC), specifically in the South Coast Air Quality Management District. The company also received funding from the California Energy Commission and the Hybrid Truck Bus Voucher Incentive Project from California Air Resources Board, administered by CalStart.

In the U.S., Frito-Lay hopes to reduce its total fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by fifty percent by 2020, compared to 2007 baseline. This effort supports PepsiCo's commitments to environmental sustainability, particularly in fuel and greenhouse gas reduction. Across PepsiCo, in addition to electric trucks, the company has introduced 267 hybrid electric trucks and sixty-seven compressed natural gas (CNG) tractors; 176 hybrid electric vehicles and fourteen CNG tractors are scheduled to operate in California.

Once all of the electric trucks are fully deployed across the U.S., Frito-Lay will eliminate the need for 500,000 gallons of fuel annually. In addition, the all-electric delivery trucks:

Can run up to eighty miles on a single charge
Have zero tailpipe emissions
Emit seventy-five percent less greenhouse gases than diesel
Operate virtually silent, eliminating noise pollution
Provide a long-term economically viable solution to traditional fuel sources

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