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.

“It took two years and several teams coming together to make this happen. It was the lab’s largest delivery of our renewable gasoline blend.”

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.