The vehicles included in the Slow Moving Vehicles (SMV) group will run at a top speed of 25 mph and will be used within its premises at Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast in Jacksonville, Florida. The initiative is an outcome of a Navy instruction to make 50% reduction in petroleum use.
Southeast Command rated as one of the biggest fleets in the US Navy has the largest convoy of SMVs that are electric powered and it was looking for renewable source of energy to balance the ever increasing electric power demand of its vehicles. Out of its total number of 314 SMVs only 23 of them are solar powered. The command is planning to increase the strength of the SMVs to 412 by the year 2012 and to have 121 of them solar powered.
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