Toyota Motor Corp. plans to sponsor greater than 15,000 prospects who reside in California and personal sure Prius Prime or RAV4 Prime plug-in hybrids to hitch a program that offsets any carbon generated from these automobiles’ charging with renewable power.

The automaker calls its new program Clean Assist, and is offering it for gratis to its prospects by means of the Toyota app.

As soon as enrolled, the smartphone app tracks the quantity of electrical energy the car used throughout charging. Toyota then buys an equal quantity of California-sourced renewable power certificates — used to underwrite the enlargement of renewable power era and transportation.

Then proof of the bought renewable power certificates is distributed to the California Air Sources Board, producing low carbon gasoline commonplace credit for the automaker. (Every low-carbon gasoline commonplace credit score is equal to 1 metric ton of CO2 that’s saved.)

To be eligible to take part, homeowners should have a Prius Prime or RAV4 Prime with telematics gear, a Toyota spokesman defined. Inputting the car’s info within the app will let shoppers know whether it is eligible.

The app will monitor car charging for members no matter the place they plug in, and can convert one hundred pc of that electrical energy to renewable energy. Members may also have the ability to see what number of metric tons of CO2 they’ve prevented producing by means of this system.