Clean fuels and clean vehicle technologies help improve air quality and reduce dependence on foreign oil. Chicago Area Clean Cities supports and promotes a wide range of fuels (those approved by the US Department of Energy as alternative fuels) as well as a variety of vehicles, retrofits, strategies and other technologies shown to reduce fuel consumption and emissions.

• Biodiesel
• Electric vehicles
• Ethanol (E-85)
• Hybrid-electric and hybrid-hydraulic vehicles
• Hydrogen (fuel cells and internal combustion)
• Idle reduction strategies
• Natural gas (CNG and LNG)
• Propane (LPG)