The Community Action Partnership of Orange County (CAPOC) now has a green vehicle to service its green Energy & Environmental Services Department, which provides energy conservation, weatherization, utility assistance and other services to low-income residents in Orange County. Helping at-risk populations in Orange County since 1965, CAPOC had been looking for a way to add a green vehicle to its energy fleet, believing that it only made sense to have a clean fuel vehicle lead the fleet of trucks serving home weatherization program clients.
Two years ago, Fox Transportation developed an innovative proposal called “Imagine” -imagining that the company could make one million deliveries using only alternative fuel vehicles. Today, with the help of the MSRC, Fox Transportation CEO Mike Fox’s imagination is becoming a reality with the rollout of 20 new CNG 16-foot delivery box vans.
A national transportation and logistics company, Fox Transportation has been in business for more than 25 years, with approximately 600 delivery vehicles rolling across 12 states. In California, the company makes more than one million deliveries each year mainly to pharmacies, but also
The MSRC, in partnership with the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD), is helping to make owning a CNG car that much easier. Thanks to Clean Transportation Funding from the MSRC, drivers of CNG vehicles in the South Coast Air District can receive a $2,000 incentive toward the purchase and installation of a Phill, a compressed natural gas appliance that can be mounted to the wall of a garage, carport or placed outdoors for convenient home refueling.
