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Pearson Fuels has opened their third E85 station in the state of California. The Chevron station is located at 1001 Willow Pass Court in Concord.
This new travel facility features a brand new Convenience Store and is the first public E85 station in Northern California. It is located directly off of Route 4 at Willow Pass Court and open 24 hours a day.
The first alternative fuel station was opened in San Diego, California by Pearson Fuels in 2003. It carried E85, biodiesel, low sulphur diesel, compressed natural gas, propane, and it hosted electric charging for vehicles in need. Many called this station, “The Fuel Station of the Future”.
“There are a lot of chickens running around,” or cars that can run on ethanol, Mike Lewis, owner of Pearson fuels once said. “And now we just need to make the eggs. I think we have the right product at the right time with the right business model. The potential upside is massive.”
Besides locations in San Diego and now in Concord, Pearson Fuels has an E85 site in Bressi Ranch. Currently, there are a total of nine E85 stations in the state of California.
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August 7th, 2008 at 2:12 am
This is great for the Bay Area but the progress has been too slow, 100 times this many E85 stations is needed. Building 1 in the last 8 months for the Bay Area is nothing to write home about, baby steps one would guess.
August 8th, 2008 at 9:00 am
JM–I would have to largely agree with your sentiment; it is taking far too long and oil companies have gotten away with too much to slow the progress of installing E85 fuel pumps. At the same time, California Air Resources Board has been given the legal control over this technology (even though EPA has promoted it largely throughout the nation–why double up?!), and while the Midwest is filling in with hundreds of E85 pumps, California falls further behind. At least now they are allowing for and also providing funding for these “temporary research” pumps now; they are just simply very far behind however. We could have been contributing much more to oil independence much sooner before the run-up in gasoline prices had the installations started years ago. Kudos to Pearson Fuels for the massive efforts they have made to at least make several E85 stations available to the public, and to those who are now working with Pearson Fuels (CARB, government, local promoters, etc.).