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Alternative Fuels




Disney is excited to be working with the Chevy division of General Motors Corporation (GM®) on Project Driveway, announced at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November 2007. In early 2008, Disney received ten deluxe, Hydrogen fuel-cell Equinox vehicles, each equipped with clean-air technology that uses no gas and creates zero tailpipe emissions. Company executives and key departments will test drive the vehicles for three years, providing feedback to GM on the fuel-cell technology. The partnership will help build awareness of the sustainability of environmentally progressive technologies.

Biofuel is another technology that Disney has utilized to reduce petroleum fuel consumption in the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts (WDP&R) segment.

  • Disney Cruise Line implemented a new initiative to repurpose used cooking oil to create biodiesel fuel for vehicles on Disney's private island, Castaway Cay. Used, trans-fat free cooking oil from the Disney Magic and Disney Wonder is offloaded and combined with diesel fuel in a 60 percent oil and 40 percent diesel mixture that is utilized to power small vehicles, heavy equipment, refrigerated trucks, and other machinery on the island. This innovative program successfully reduced petroleum diesel consumption and decreased carbon emissions.
  • In January 2007, Disneyland Resort reached a milestone as the Environmental Affairs and Walt Disney Imagineering Research and Development performed the first successful test of 100 percent soybean oil-based fuel on the No. 2 steam train engine, the E.P. Ripley. The new fuel burns cleaner than its predecessors, which included wood, coal, and petroleum diesel. Disneyland Resort retrofitted five steam trains to biodiesel due to the successful test. Walt Disney World Resort also converted four steam trains to biodiesel in 2007.
  • Walt Disney World Transport buses are now successfully running on B20, which consists of 20 percent oil and 80 percent conventional diesel. With the amount of regular diesel saved through the use of biofuel every year, an average Walt Disney World bus could travel once around the outer ring of Saturn!