News: Toyota Has Super-Discount on 2021 Mirai Fuel Cell EV
Super discount offered on 2021 Toyota Mirai fuel cell EV. It’s not a free car, but it’s heading that direction.
Interview: BMW Performance Center
Clean Fleet Report recently spent a day at the BMW Performance Center in Thermal, California (there is also a center in Spartanburg, South Carolina) and were treated to a day of fast acceleration, hard stopping, and aggressive cornering, with the overall goal of improving our ability to control a car.
News: CA/China EV Sales Tell Tesla Story
Two recent electric vehicle sales reports tell a similar tale—the Tesla Model 3 is dominating the market worldwide and in its home market of California, and other models and manufacturers have a lot of catching up to make it a competitive situation.
Company Turns Trees Into Gasoline Replacement
The goal is reducing petroleum use. ZeaChem gets California grant to produce ethanol to blend with gasoline from woody biomass and agricultural residue. They have a demonstration plant in Oregon producing ethanol from locally grown poplar trees.
California’s Low Carbon Diet
When Coke and Pepsi were in the middle of their diet wars, California was an early battle ground. Now millions of Californians are being targeted as early adopters for a low carbon fuel diet. More miles, less carbon emission. It is the law. Executive Order S-1-07, the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), calls for a reduction of at least 10 percent in the carbon intensity of California’s transportation fuels by 2020.