Getting gas is an expensive chore these days, but a startup now operating west of Boston promises to bring gas to your doorstep while helping the environment. say that the costs are comparable. Carmyn wants to change the way they refuel and keep drivers away from brick-and-mortar gas stations. It’s a tempting idea for Kate Hazen, who fills up her car with a Carmin truck without leaving her Sudbury driveway. “It’s really convenient to have nothing more, in fact less than going to some gas stations around here.” “When you go to a gas station, how do you know if the price is good or bad?” ?Price?” asked Carmyn founder Ben Slayden. “The reason I’m really close is because it’s actually cheaper than a full service station, but I don’t have to buy expensive land to build a gas station.” Gas delivery service is simple and transparent. is. He said that on certain days, Carmyn will charge the average price of a gallon of gasoline in the county he’s in, plus a 10% service charge, as posted on his AAA.com. Slayden buys a gasoline wholesaler and says the refueling he brings to the driver’s home is only $2-3 more than he would at a conventional gas station. He promises that Carmyn will receive half of the proceeds to build solar energy projects in the communities they serve, offsetting all emissions from fuel-burning vehicles. Sladen said. “The answer is nothing. With 10,000 gas-burning vehicles still on American roads and only a small percentage of electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles purchased each year, Sladen says the country isn’t moving fast enough. . Troy Ginther, who runs a sister landscaping company with Natural Stone Wall Solutions, says he seeks to reduce the environmental impact of his business by installing solar panels and purchasing electric landscaping equipment. With Carmyn it was very easy to refuel the vehicle after hours on site. “Instead of a crew of six people in a lorry scouring gas stations, I know it’s done here.” Co-owner Brian Whittemore came to the same conclusion: go to the gas station,” he said. “We have been able to save that downtime and also save fuel consumption to and from the petrol station for a car fueled by Carmyn. Hoping to install the first solar installation, the goal is to eventually make Carmyn’s renewable energy company bigger than a fuel delivery business.
Getting gas is an expensive chore these days, but a startup now operating west of Boston promises to bring gas to your doorstep while helping the environment. say that the costs are comparable.
Carmyn wants to change the way they refuel and keep drivers away from brick-and-mortar gas stations. It’s an enticing idea for Kate Hazen, whose car is now filled with Carmine trucks without leaving her Sudbury driveway.
“Another stop is my day timeout,” she said. “It’s really convenient to have nothing more. In fact, it’s less than going to gas stations around here.”
“How do you know if the price is good or bad when you go to a gas station?” asked Carmyn founder Ben Slayden. “Because you don’t need to buy expensive land to build a gas station.”
Slayden said the pricing model for Carmyn’s gas delivery service is simple and transparent. He said that on certain days, Carmyn will charge the average price of a gallon of gasoline in the county he’s in, plus a 10% service charge, as posted on his AAA.com. Slayden buys gasoline wholesale, and the refueling he brings to the driver’s house is only about $2 to $3 more than a conventional gas station, he says.
But driving a Slayden is more important than making life easier. He promises to take half of the money Carmyn makes to build solar energy projects in the communities he serves, offsetting all emissions from fuel-burning vehicles.
“What is society doing to decarbonize these 274 million (gasoline-powered) cars?” Sladen said. “The answer is nothing. We haven’t done anything.”
He said a trip to Patagonia, at the southern tip of South America, showed him the urgency of the climate crisis. But with hundreds of millions of gas-burning vehicles still on America’s roads, and only a fraction of electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles purchased each year, the country isn’t moving fast enough, he said. he says Slayden.
“Today we have to do something,” he said.
Troy Ginther, who runs a sister landscaping company with Natural Stone Wall Solutions, says he seeks to reduce the environmental impact of his business by installing solar panels and purchasing electric landscaping equipment. With Carmyn it was very easy to refuel the vehicle after hours on site.
“Instead of a crew of six in a lorry scouring gas stations, I know it’s done here.
Brian Whittemore, co-owner of Pure Solutions, an organic lawn care, tick and mosquito control company, came to the same conclusion.
“Previously, our refueling would pay for one of our technicians to drive to the gas station after hours,” he said. “We saved that downtime, and we saved fuel on the trip to and from the gas station.”
So there are immediate environmental impacts that shouldn’t be discounted, but Slayden says his ultimate goal is to offset all emissions from cars fueled by Carmyn. He hopes Carmyn will install the first solar installation in Sudbury within two years of him. Ultimately, the goal is for Carmyn’s renewable energy company to be larger than the fuel delivery business.
“The more solar we can actually serve, the more solar we can actually build,” he said.
