Fleet vehicles are non-tactical vehicles (NTV) used as passenger cars, vans, SUVs, trucks, buses, ambulances etc.
The following statistics are derived from the GSA’s Federal Fleet Reports. The latest report for Fiscal Year 2010 is already available: download.

In FY2010, the US military services have had 197,477 vehicles in their inventory. Slightly more than half of that total [...]

Along with the rest of the world, I have spent the past week watching in horror the incredible sequence of events unfold in Japan–a record-breaking earthquake followed by a tsunami, together triggering a series of malfunctions in several units of the Fukushima nuclear power station.

My interest in what is happening [...]

With the fossil fuel levels around the planet steadily declining, both governments and individual consumers are looking for alternate energy sources to reduce costs and carbon footprints. You might want to ask your handyman how you can convert your house to be more energy efficient. Solar energy, once an inefficient and expensive process, has had [...]

Scientists and engineers at the Department of Energy (DOE) have discovered through the use of nanotechnology how to densely pack hydrogen molecules for safe storage inside lightweight tanks and easily release those molecules when needed for fuel.

The DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is using a material related to Plexiglas sprinkled with nanoparticles of magnesium [...]