Refuel
 

We are working to increase the fuel efficiency of the system's fleet of more than 200,000 vehicles used to deliver our products around the world. Some examples include:

• Testing 30 compact, electric-powered trucks for our sales force in Uruguay; new model averages one-fifth the fuel consumption of the earlier model;
• Powering delivery truck in Mexico with diesel and electricity; these new trucks are 30 percent more efficient than trucks previously employed reducing CO 2 emissions by 40 percent; and
• Updating all 85 diesel fuel delivery trucks in New Delhi, India to be powered by compressed natural gas.

Optimizing delivery routes to minimize stops and fuel usage, and "lightweighted" packaging are two more ways we're reducing the fuel necessary for transporting our products to market.

The largest bottler of Coca-Cola products, Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE), worked with their suppliers to create a diesel-electric hybrid delivery truck that is the largest truck of its type. CCE had deployed more than 300 diesel-electric hybrid trucks by the end of 2009 -- the largest heavy-duty, diesel-electric hybrid truck fleet in North America. These hybrid trucks are 30% more fuel-efficient than traditional trucks, produce less emissions when idling or stopped in traffic, and reduces overall emissions by one-third. Read more.