Pearson Fuels
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Industry | Transportation Alternate Fuel Retailer |
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Founded | 2003 |
Headquarters | San Diego, California |
Key people | Mike Lewis General Manager |
Products | Ethanol (E85), Biodiesel, Natural Gas, Hydrogen |
Website | http://www.pearsonfuels.com/ |
Pearson Fuels is a privately held alternative fuel retailer founded in the San Diego in 2003.[1] Pearson Fuels is notable as the first alternative fuel station in the United States to offer a comprehensive suite of alternate vehicle fuels including ethanol, biodiesel, compressed natural gas (CNG), propane, hydrogen, and electric vehicle charging.[2] Pearson Fuels is headquartered in San Diego.
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 collective 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 built on this to expand a new business model throughout the State of California. With funding from the California Air Resource Board, the California Energy Commission (CEC) and the US Department of Energy, Pearson Fuels worked with retail gasoline fuel station owners to assist them in entering the alternative fueling business. 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. Ethanol is used for 10% gasoline blending and is in every gallon of gasoline sold in California today.
Grants[]
In 2010, the company received $1.8 million state grant, in order to assist put biodiesel into more tanker trucks.[3]
In 2014, Pearson received $1.35 million grant from the California Energy Commission to expand the company’s flex fueling network. With support from the CEC, Pearson Fuels developed two existing diesel terminals into biodiesel blending terminals, which allows fuel truck operators to load various blends of biodiesel and regular diesel simultaneously. This ultimately eliminates the truck from making trips to two different racks and more importantly, breaks down additional barriers of alternative fuels use.[4]
Products[]
Pearson offers 10 different kinds of fuel today, ranging from gasoline to ethanol.[5]
See also[]
- Biofuel
- BioEthanol for Sustainable Transport
- E85
- Charging station
- Ethanol fuel
- Flexible-fuel vehicle
- Natural gas vehicle
- Biodiesel in the United States
- BioFuels Security Act
- California Energy Commission
References[]
- ^ "Pump the Eco Fuel of Your Choice". Retrieved 2013-03-16.
- ^ "National Alternative Fuel Vehicle (AFV) Day Odyssey". Retrieved 2013-03-31.
- ^ Soto, Onell R. "San Diego biofuels company lands $1.8M grant". sandiegouniontribune.com. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
- ^ "Pearson Fuels Receives $1.35M Grant from Energy Commission". San Diego Business Journal. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
- ^ Pearson Fuels - Company Details
- Biofuel in the United States
- Energy in California
- 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