toyota and chevron drive progress with renewable gasoline blend

Three key takeaways from this article:

• This new fuel blend can be used in virtually any vehicle on the road today.
• It functions like traditional gasoline—no engine changes are required.
• Toyota recently used it with existing fuel storage infrastructure for a “first fill” in a shipment of new vehicles.

Toyota Logistics Services at the Port of Portland recently received a special delivery from Chevron: 4,000 gallons of a renewable gasoline blend. Compared with traditional gasoline, it could reduce a vehicle’s lifecycle carbon dioxide emissions by more than 40%.

At the Port of Portland site, this renewable blend was put in an existing fuel storage tank. When a shipment of new vehicles came into port on April 11, Toyota used this renewable fuel blend to provide a “first fill,” or the first few gallons used to transport new vehicles to dealers.

Creating a renewable gasoline blend is both an art and a science. Izadyar Dalvand, an engine laboratory operations supervisor at the Chevron Richmond Engine Laboratory, was an integral part of the team that developed this new product, which contains more than 50% renewable content.

“It’s great to be involved in creating a totally new renewable gasoline blend, and to see it used in vehicles,” Dalvand said.

Dalvand's team played a key role in creating a gasoline blend that delivers performance while lowering carbon intensity.

Although it’s not yet available for widespread consumer purchase, Chevron demonstrated its renewable gasoline blend on a 1,000-mile road trip in July 2023. The blend fueled three Toyota vehicles—a Camry, a RAV4 and a Tundra—that traveled across parts of the southeastern U.S. in a variety of weather and terrain conditions.

The recent delivery to Toyota’s operations facility is the next step toward making this fuel available to drivers.

A vehicle sold today could still be on the road in the 2040s. Renewable blends like this one are compatible with existing cars, could provide performance similar to that of traditional fuels, and help support a lower carbon intensity future.

Chevron’s Andy Walz, president of Chevron Americas Products, recently spoke about the need for supportive, well-designed policies that will help scale production of renewable fuels so they can be offered to consumers and lower the carbon intensity of driving existing cars.

To learn more about how Chevron and Toyota are working together to lower carbon intensity, watch Driving Decarbonization in America—their partnership is featured in the second episode, which airs July 19. The series is available to stream free for a limited time on Discover Go.