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FedEx pledges to be carbon neutral by 2040

GreenBiz

Swapping all that diesel and jet fuel with batteries and biofuels won't be easy. The larger commercial vehicles — such as Class 8 trucks — are more difficult to electrify due to a lack of models from manufacturers and a higher price tag than their diesel equivalent. That fuel also accounts for 6 percent of its annual operating budget.

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Three sustainable fuels that could be the future of green aviation

Corporate Knights

One year later , it scheduled more than 200 trial flights between Paris and Amsterdam using biofuel made from used cooking oil. Dutch airline KLM has been viewed as a trailblazer for its use of cooking oil as fuel on a commercial flight in 2010. Lufthansa and Continental Airlines followed suit shortly after.

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