Straus Family Creamery and BMW Group work together on fuel for vehicles California dairy company Straus Family Creamery, is collaborating with BMW Group.
Through California Air Resources Board’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) Program, BMW can “power” their customers’ electric vehicles with ultra-low carbon intensity electric fuel produced from biodigester technology on the Straus Organic Dairy Farm.
The BMW collaboration helps Straus Family Creamery founder and CEO Albert Straus’ vision of creating a replicable carbon-neutral farming model on his farm, and it provides an opportunity for California dairy farmers to generate new income sources.
The Straus Organic Dairy Farm and BMW Group’s collaboration created a new farm-to-electric pathway in 2019 that ensured the Straus farm could recently invest in and test an advanced biodigester technology. With costs between $1m and $2m, small-scale methane digesters have not been affordable for sma