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ChargEVC: New Jersey plug-in electric vehicle registration up 79% for MY 2016 vehicles over 2015

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Registration of model year 2016 plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) in New Jersey was up 79% over 2015, according to a recent analysis by ChargEVC , a diverse coalition of organizations and companies that support growth of the electric vehicle market. This accelerating growth in New Jersey echoes analysis from a variety of sources.

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Clean Energy wins $10M, multi-year transit deal with New Jersey Transit

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Clean Energy Fuels has won a $10-million, multi-year procurement from New Jersey Transit, the nation’s third largest provider of bus, rail and light rail transit, which links major points in New Jersey, New York and Philadelphia and provides close to 223 million passenger trips each year.

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Xtreme Diesel Performance to pay $1.125M penalty for selling defeat devices

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XDP manufactured and/or sold more than 27,000 aftermarket defeat devices between January 2015 and May 2017. The consent decree for this settlement was lodged in the US District Court for the District of New Jersey and is subject to final court approval.

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US new light-duty diesel sales dropped slightly in 2016 to 280,000 units from 300,000 in 2015

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smaller than the some 300,000 added to the US vehicle parc in 2015, but still demonstrated resilience in a market that had 25% fewer model choices available. Three Northeastern states had the highest percentage of new diesel car and SUV registrations in 2016: Vermont (+35%), Maine (+29%) and New Hampshire (+12%).

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Tesla In NJ, 2015 BMW i8 Specs, Rolls-Royce Plug-In Hybrid: Today's Car News

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Today on Green Car Reports: New Jersey could have banned Tesla Stores by the time you read this, final specs are released for the 2015 BMW i8 plug-in hybrid supercar, and Rolls-Royce considers a plug-in hybrid luxury sedan of its own. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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NEESC releases 2015 hydrogen & fuel cell development plans for eight Northeastern states; power generation and transportation

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CCAT ), released the 2015 Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Development Plans for each of the eight states in the Northeast US. New Hampshire. New Jersey. The Northeast Electrochemical Energy Storage Cluster ( NEESC ), administered by Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology Inc. million ZEVs between 2018 and 2025, 1.24

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Study finds road conditions in US states worsening in important categories

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The state highway systems in New Jersey (50 th ), Alaska (49 th ), Rhode Island (48 th ), Hawaii (47 th ), Massachusetts (46 th ) and New York (45 th ) rank at the bottom of the nation in overall performance and cost-effectiveness. Missouri, Maine and Kentucky round out the top five states. —Baruch Feigenbaum.