{"id":2423,"date":"2007-05-17T07:23:09","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T13:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2423"},"modified":"2012-05-15T16:41:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T22:41:50","slug":"wal-mart-backs-hybrid-semi-tractor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wal-mart-backs-hybrid-semi-tractor\/","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart backs hybrid semi-tractor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Treehugger, Wal-Mart stores is backing the design and production of a <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.peterbilt.com\/index_new_mor.asp?file=2100\">Hybrid Peterbilt Semi-Tractor<\/span>.<br \/>\nAccording to Peterbilt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The heavy duty hybrid electric Model 386, configured for on-highway use, is being developed in conjunction with Eaton and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.  It is currently in the testing and evaluation phase and is expected to be available in 2010.  Wal-Mart, which operates the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s second largest private fleet, is supporting development by helping validate the concept and refine the final design.<br \/>\nDuring third-party testing, the Eaton Hybrid Power System has routinely achieved a 5-7 percent fuel savings versus comparable, non-hybrid models. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I also read recently that Wal-Mart is changing the lighting in their store coolers to LED lights vs. incandescent or CFLs to save a bunch of money on bulb replacements and energy costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Treehugger, Wal-Mart stores is backing the design and production of a Hybrid Peterbilt Semi-Tractor. According to Peterbilt: The heavy duty hybrid electric Model 386, configured for on-highway use, is being developed in conjunction with Eaton and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. It is currently in the testing and evaluation phase and is expected to be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wal-mart-backs-hybrid-semi-tractor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wal-Mart backs hybrid semi-tractor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techno","category-treehugging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-D5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}