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One of the world’s top leasing companies is betting that corporations with fleets of cars and trucks increasingly will want them to be powered by electricity and other alternatives to fossil fuels.
That bet will be partly tested at a new half-mile (0.8kms) track in Minnesota.
In order to showcase green vehicles to corporate clients, GE Capital Fleet Services, a major player in commercial vehicle leasing, has built the test track and a showroom filled with Chevrolet Volts, Nissan Leafs and more exotic alternatives at its US headquarters in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
Industry officials said GE’s “Vehicle Innovation Center,” which opened this week, is the first of its kind – a place where fleet managers from around the country will be invited to test-drive everything from a small plug-in electric car to a semi-trailer truck powered by liquefied natural gas.
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