The New York Times reports:
A green trajectory can involve twists and turns. Take TPI Composites, now based in Phoenix, which started out building yacht hulls but branched out into blades for wind turbines and then into bus bodies. The buses were thousands of pounds lighter and therefore more fuel-efficient.
Now TPI is beating a plowshare into a sword, so to speak, by setting out to supply the Pentagon with a composite Humvee.
A lighter Humvee would yield better fuel economy, allowing the military to apply the savings elsewhere...
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