Maryland Announces Roadmap for Cleaner Cars
posted 1:57 pm Wed September 12, 2007 - Annapolis, MD.
Though hybrid cars cost more, the state plans to buy more of them.
The three-member Board of Public Works was briefed on plans to increase the percentage of biofuel and hybrid cars to 40 percent of the new purchases by 2010.
Earlier this summer, Comptroller Peter Franchot worried aloud that the state wasn't moving fast enough to alternative-fuel vehicles - the state owns only 30 hybrid cars.
Officials say the state plans to buy many more hybrid cars - 100 more by 2011 - and will boost biofuel car usage by adding four more fueling stations around the state. Currently, the state has only one ethanol pump, located in Baltimore.
Franchot urged fleet managers to keep working to speed introduction of fuel-efficient and alternative-fuel cars.
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