Pearson Fuels is a privately held
alternative fuel
Alternative fuel, known as non-conventional and advanced fuels, are any materials or substances that can be used as fuels, other than conventional fuels like; '' fossil fuels'' (petroleum (oil), coal, and natural gas), as well as nuclear mat ...
retailer founded in San Diego in 2002.
Pearson Fuels is notable as the first alternative fuel station in the United States to offer alternate vehicle fuels including ethanol, biodiesel, compressed natural gas (CNG), propane, hydrogen, and electric vehicle charging.
Pearson Fuels is headquartered in
San Diego
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History
Pearson Fuels was founded in 2002 by three business associates that owned and managed one of San Diego’s car dealerships, Pearson Ford. Their first project was a retail fuel station located on El Cajon Blvd. in San Diego. The station opened in 2003 as the nation’s first alternative fuel station. Specializing in bringing alternative fuels to the public, the station brought the first E85 station to the State of California, the first Biodiesel station to San Diego and the county’s first dual-pressure natural gas station. The station is now called Pearson Fuel Depot.
Over the next 15 years, Pearson Fuels expanded a new business model throughout California. With funding from the California Air Resource Board, the
California Energy Commission
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Created in 1974 and headquartered in Sacramento, the Commission'core respon ...
(CEC), and the US Department of Energy, Pearson Fuels worked with retail gasoline fuel station owners to assist in entering the alternative fueling business. Based on the number of delivery locations. Based on the number of delivery locations, Pearson has become the largest distributor of E85 in the State of California.
In 2014, Pearson Fuels entered the hydrogen market and signed up its first retail hydrogen refueling location. Pearson is also a supplier of Bulk Ethanol to the traditional fuel industry.
In February 2022, Pearson Fuels announced the opening of its 250th retail E85 flex fuel station in Salinas, CA..
Grants
In 2010, the company received a $1.8 million state grant to assist in putting biodiesel into more tanker trucks.
In 2014, Pearson Fuels received a $1.35 million grant from the California Energy Commission to expand the company’s flex fueling network. With support from the CEC, it developed two existing diesel terminals into biodiesel blending terminals, which allow fuel truck operators to load various blends of biodiesel and regular diesel simultaneously. Ultimately, this eliminates the truck from making trips to two different racks and, more importantly, breaks down additional barriers to alternative fuel use.
Products
Pearson offers 10 different fuels today, from gasoline to ethanol.
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See also
* Biofuel
Biofuel is a fuel that is produced over a short time span from biomass, rather than by the very slow natural processes involved in the formation of fossil fuels, such as oil. According to the United States Energy Information Administration (E ...
* BioEthanol for Sustainable Transport
BioEthanol for Sustainable Transport (BEST) was a four-year project financially supported by the European Union for promoting the introduction and market penetration of bioethanol as a vehicle fuel, and the introduction and wider use of flexible-f ...
* E85
E85 is an abbreviation typically referring to an ethanol fuel blend of 85% ethanol fuel and 15% gasoline or other hydrocarbon by volume.
In the United States, the exact ratio of fuel ethanol to hydrocarbon may vary according to ASTM 5798 that ...
* Charging station
A charging station, also known as a charge point or electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE), is a piece of equipment that supplies electrical power for charging plug-in electric vehicles (including electric cars, electric trucks, electric ...
* Ethanol fuel
Ethanol fuel is ethyl alcohol, the same type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages, used as fuel. It is most often used as a motor fuel, mainly as a biofuel additive for gasoline. The first production car running entirely on ethanol was the ...
* Flexible-fuel vehicle
A flexible-fuel vehicle (FFV) or dual-fuel vehicle (colloquially called a flex-fuel vehicle) is an alternative fuel vehicle with an internal combustion engine designed to run on more than one fuel, usually gasoline blended with either ethanol o ...
* Natural gas vehicle
A natural gas vehicle (NGV) is an alternative fuel vehicle
An alternative fuel vehicle is a motor vehicle that runs on alternative fuel rather than traditional petroleum fuels (petrol or diesel fuel, petrodiesel). The term also refers to an ...
* Biodiesel in the United States
Biodiesel is commercially available in most oilseed-producing states in the United States. As of 2005, it is more expensive than petroleum-diesel, though it is still commonly produced in relatively small quantities (in comparison to petroleum pr ...
* BioFuels Security Act
The BioFuels Security Act is a proposed legislative Act of Congress intended to phase out current single-fueled vehicles in favor of flexible-fuel vehicles. Under this proposal, contemporary single-fuel vehicles would cease production in 2016.
O ...
* California Energy Commission
The California Energy Commission, formally the Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, is the primary energy policy and planning agency for California.
Created in 1974 and headquartered in Sacramento, the Commission'core respon ...
References
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Companies based in San Diego
Energy companies established in 2003
Renewable resource companies established in 2003
American companies established in 2003
2003 establishments in California