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NJ electric-car advocacy group launches as gas tax soars

Green Car Reports

New Jersey was always the place for residents of neighboring states—Delaware, New York, and Pennsylvania—to buy cheap gasoline. Today, a new coalition launched with the aim of.

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#EVmyValentine: Your Creative Odes to Electric Vehicles

Plug in America

Here are some of our staff’s favorite valentines, including one from Percy, our team’s new favorite pup. A poem from Eric who lives in New Jersey: Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love my EV, And so would you. The fuel is cheap, The maintenance low, No emissions, It’s fast, not slow.

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Feature: The Genesis Experience

Clean Fleet Report

Not all succeed as talk is cheap, actions are tough, and many don’t do so well following through. The Dealer Son-Nim Experience Our silent, all-electric drive departed New York City and took us over the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge onto Staten Island and then on to New Jersey. Historic and highly recommended if in the area.

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Perspective: Despite Solyndra’s death, the future of solar energy is sunny

Green Car Congress

With subsidies long in place for nuclear, coal and gas in the US along with the cheap cost of production for coal and natural gas, solar is essentially competing with that $0.10/kWh New Jersey is second only to California in adoption of solar infrastructure. 2 ] Annual average solar insolation for New Jersey is 4.5 – 5.0

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CMU study finds controlled EV charging can reduce generation cost, but at greater health and environmental costs depending upon the generation mix

Green Car Congress

The PJM Interconnection is a regional transmission organization (RTO) that coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity in all or parts of Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia.

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Ninth annual Green Innovation Index finds California light-duty vehicle emissions spike; major challenge to 2030 climate goals

Green Car Congress

Cheap gas prices and a strong economy are creating increased goods movement and prompting Californians to drive more. public charging outlets per ZEV, placing it ahead of only New Jersey and Alaska for availability of infrastructure. billion in 2014, up 0.08% from the previous year. below their 2006 levels.

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Green Autos in the Times: Hybrid Hype, Hydrogen Hooey and Electric Dreams

Plugs and Cars

Ellick and Don Sherman's moronic and facile hydrogen vehicles video shot in the New Jersey field where the Hindenberg met its firey demise. The reader is just meant to be left with the impression that Big Auto is still trying but the dang technology just isn't good enough or safe enough or cheap enough to market.

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