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New Jersey Approves Additional EV Road Use Taxes

The Truth About Cars

New Jersey is taking action on the issue with a controversial measure to charge EV owners an annual road tax, which will increase over the next four years to $290 in 2028. EV buyers in the state will also have to pay four years of registration fees upfront, making it significantly more expensive to purchase a new electric model.

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Chargeway: the best electric-car idea you've never heard of

Green Car Reports

In New Jersey and Oregon, someone else does this for you.) Pretty much everyone knows how to put fuel into a conventional car. You pull up to the pump, open the vehicle's fuel door, put in a credit card, select diesel or one of three grades of gasoline, lift the hose, and pump. (In Electric-car charging isn't quite that simple.

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Tesla Supercharger ironically blocked “almost every day” by energy company vehicle

Teslarati

A reported ICE-ing incident in New Jersey does not seem to be one of these incidents. . There is some irony to be had in the idea of vehicles from a power company blocking a Tesla Supercharger, or any electric vehicle charging station for that matter.

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Driving Dystopia: New York City Pushes Through Congestion Pricing Scheme

The Truth About Cars

.& New York actually introduced the premise of adding driving fees several years ago, with similar plans dating back to the 1970s. The idea has been revisited every few years, with 2019 delivering the model that only needed to be approved by local transit authorities that have the most to gain. New Jersey Gov.

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Elon Musk arrives in NYC for SNL debut with Baby X and Grimes for support

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Elon Musk was spotted at the Teterboro Airport in New Jersey on Monday with Grimes and Baby X. As he signed numerous pictures, the Tesla CEO asked some of the paparazzi for any skit ideas. . His appearance in the streets of the Big Apple hints that Musk might be preparing for his “Saturday Night Live” (SNL) debut on May 8.

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Halcrow Presents Conceptual Design for Storm Surge Barrier to Protect the New York Metro Area

Green Car Congress

Halcrow, a specialist in the provision of planning, design and management services for infrastructure development, has presented a conceptual design for an outer harbor gateway to protect the New York and New Jersey metropolitan areas from severe coastal flooding resulting from storm surges, along with rising sea-levels due to climate change.

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Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam

Cars That Think

Such a conversion has never been done, but the report is another sign that the idea is gaining momentum—if with the slow steps of a baby needing decades to learn to walk. “A Department of Energy (DOE) released a report suggesting that, in theory, over 300 former and present coal power plants could be converted to nuclear.

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