{"id":300181,"date":"2010-02-09T23:10:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T04:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/?p=8949"},"modified":"2010-02-09T23:10:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T04:10:05","slug":"enterprise-holdings-will-move-its-fleet-of-buses-to-biodiesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/300181","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise Holdings will move its fleet of buses to biodiesel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From Green Right Now Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Enterprise Holdings today announced that it will convert its entire fleet of more than 600 Alamo Rent A Car, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and National Car Rental airport shuttle buses \u00a0in 50 North American markets\u00a0to begin using at least 5 percent biodiesel (B5). The company said it will immediately convert buses in nine markets to 20 percent biodiesel (B20) as a first step toward the company\u2019s goal of converting its entire bus fleet to B20 over the next five years.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8950\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 260px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8950 \" title=\"National_Holdings\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/National_Holdings.jpg\" alt=\"Pictured at the press conference are (l-r) Joe Jobe, CEO of NBB; Dr. Richard Sayre, Director, Enterprise Rent-A-Car Institute for Renewable Fuels; and Lee Broughton, director of corporate identity and sustainability for Enterprise Holdings. (Photo: \" width=\"250\" height=\"241\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Jobe, CEO of the National Biodiesel Board; Dr. Richard Sayre, Director of Enterprise Rent-A-Car Institute for Renewable Fuels; and Lee Broughton, director of corporate identity and sustainability for Enterprise Holdings. (Photo:  National Biodiesel Board)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Enterprise Holdings expects to complete the conversion to all B5 by spring of this year, with at least 50 percent converted to B20 by the end of next year. Buses in nine markets are immediately being converted to run on B20 where the fuel is centrally stored and available: Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, Raleigh\/Durham, San Antonio and San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis investment in biodiesel follows our commitment to our customers and our business to use our fleet to help grow the clean fuel market. By embracing alternative fuels and engine technologies, they have a greater opportunity to become commercially viable,\u201d said Lee Broughton, director of corporate identity and sustainability for Enterprise Holdings. \u201cBiodiesel\u2019s benefits to the environment support our commitment to environmental stewardship, as well as our sustainable approach to managing our business for long-term success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to embracing biodiesel and other alternative fuels as they become commercially viable, Enterprise Holdings has spent millions in support of renewable fuels research. In 2007, the company\u2019s owners, the Taylor family, made a $25 million grant to the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis to create the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Institute for Renewable Fuels. Led by renowned plant researcher Dr. Richard Sayre, top scientists work at the Institute to develop alternatives to finite fossil fuels by finding new ways to create fuel from renewable, reliable plant sources.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zimmcomm.biz\/nbb\/nbc-10-enterprise.mp3\" >announcement<\/a> was made at the National Biodiesel Conference in Grapevine, Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Green Right Now Reports Enterprise Holdings today announced that it will convert its entire fleet of more than 600 Alamo Rent A Car, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and National Car Rental airport shuttle buses \u00a0in 50 North American markets\u00a0to begin using at least 5 percent biodiesel (B5). The company said it will immediately convert buses in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}