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UPS - Road to 1 Billion Miles

ups The Road to 1 Billion Miles in UPS's Alternative Fuel and Advanced Technology Vehicles UPS is committed to better fuel alternatives, now and for the future. That's why we recently announced a new goal – to drive 1 billion miles in our alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles by 2017. With nearly 3,000 vehicles currently in our "rolling laboratory," we're creating sustainable connections and delivering innovative, new technologies on the road and around the globe. 100000000 miles by 2017 1 Bilion Miles Our goal is to drive 1 billion miles in alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles by the end of 2017 – ore than double our previous goal to drive 400 million miles. 295 Million Miles 212 Million Miles Base Year 100 Million Miles 2000 2005 2010 2012 2017 Liquefied Natural Gas Announcement Electric Vehicle Expansion 加 x20 100x Earlier this year we deployed 100 fully electric UPS announced the purchase of 700 LNG tractors in commercial vehicles throughout California. These additions to our electric vehicle fleet will help 2013 and plan to ultimately have more than 1,000 in our fleet. These tractors will operate from LNG fueling offset the consumption of conventional motor fuel stations in Las Vegas, Nev.; Phoenix, Ariz., and Beaver by an estimated 126,000 gallons per year. and Salt Lake City, Utah among other locations. Electric Vehicles Diesel Hybrid Hydraulic First tested in New York City in the 1930s, we took a second look in Santiago, Chile, in 2001. Harnessing hydraulic power sharply increases fuel Today, we have more than 100 worldwide. efficiency and cuts greenhouse gas emissions in the delivery vehicles. More than 40 of these vehicles deliver packages in the U.S. today. Hybrid Electric Liquefied Natural Gas We were driving hybrid electric vehicles on the street two years before they became widely available to consumers in the U.S. Now, we Big rigs run cleaner when burning liquefied natural gas. UPS operates over 100 tractor-trailers powered by LNG in the U.S. operate nearly 400 of these low emission vehicles around the world. Propane Engines Compressed Natural Gas Propane burns cleaner than conventional liquid fuels, such as gasoline or diesel. Today, we operate nearly 900 propane engine vehicles worldwide. UPS has more than 1,000 of these clean burning vehicles in our global fleet. 2,700 alternative fuel/advanced technology vehicles 295 million ==== 00 miles logged In 2012, our alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet reached 295 million miles driven in actual service, starting from the We had more than 2,700 alternative fuel/advanced technology baseline year of 2000. vehicles in operation in ten countries at the end of 2012. Learn more at ups.com/sustainability mother mnn nature network ups SOURCES: All oquivalencies presented are astimates and do not reprecent actual or verified banafits PRESENTED BY associated with this initiative O 2013 United Parcel Service of America, Inc. UPS, the UPS brandmark, and the color brown are trademarks of United Parcel Service of America, Inc. All rights reserved 1980 866L 2001 2013 686L 0007 9007 2013

UPS - Road to 1 Billion Miles

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An infographic for UPS about the history of their fleet and their goal to drive 1 Billion miles in alternative fuel vehicles by 2017.

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