{"id":2193,"date":"2012-01-05T08:54:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T13:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallvehicles.wordpress.com\/?p=2193"},"modified":"2012-01-05T08:54:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T13:54:29","slug":"more-sustainability-driven-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/05\/more-sustainability-driven-purchases\/","title":{"rendered":"More Sustainability Driven Purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Chicago recently added three e-Ride electric utility vehicles to their fleet. ??The LSVs are replacing two gas powered trucks and a van and are the University&#8217;s first foray into all electric vehicles. ??The vehicles will be used mostly by the facilities department in their carpentry or painting shops during a pilot phase to understand how to best use the vehicles. ??In the future more of these type of vehicles are expected to be purchased as part of a sustainability program. ??<a title=\"University of Chicago Sustains With e-Ride\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uchicago.edu\/dirt\/2011\/12\/universitys_facilities_service.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learn more: ??Blogs.uchicago.edu\/dirt<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong>?? In a related story, Missouri State University students purchased a Vantage EVX1000 electric utility truck for student workers who collect recyclables on campus. ??The student sustainability fund was used to finance the $24,000 purchase. ??The recycling program is expected to now be more efficient with a dedicated vehicle that expands access to off-campus university buildings downtown. <a title=\"Missouri State University buys Electric Truck\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/article\/20111209\/NEWS01\/112090338\/electric-truck-recycling-MSU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">??Learn more: ??News-leader.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Chicago recently added three e-Ride electric utility vehicles to their fleet. ??The LSVs are replacing two gas powered trucks and a van and are the University&#8217;s first foray into all electric vehicles. ??The vehicles will be used &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/05\/more-sustainability-driven-purchases\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,18,21,27],"tags":[378,772,843,1255,1356,1387],"class_list":["post-2193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-vehicles","category-market-trends","category-nev","category-regulation-policy","category-utility-vehicles","tag-e-ride","tag-lsv","tag-missouri-state-university","tag-sustainability","tag-university-of-chicago","tag-vantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}