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$3.2 Million From The Volkswagen Emissions Settlement Will Pay For ChargersThe New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection recently announced it was allocating $3.2 million from the Volkswagen Mitigation Trust to install approximately 827 electric-vehicle charging stations at 533 locations around New Jersey in 2019. New Jersey currently has...

New Jersey franchised automotive retailers have raised $1.8 million for The Valerie Fund over the last five years. In 2014 and 2015, NJ CAR spear-headed the effort and for the past three years, The Valerie Fund has continued raising a considerable amount of money from dozens of dealerships...

NJ CAR Is Also Addressing the Shortage At The State Level The National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) Foundation has launched a website (www.nadafoundation.org) aimed at addressing the ongoing shortage of technicians in the automotive retail industry. Technical schools and training programs currently graduate about 37,000 technicians each...

https://secure.njcar.org/secure/images/uploadedimages/TeslaGraphic.jpg" alt="" width="300" hspace="10" vspace="10" border="0" align="right"> 02/15/2019 State Legislators representing Englewood and the surrounding communities in Bergen County, yesterday, introduced legislation to expand the size and scope of the special exemption under New Jersey law that allows Tesla -- and Tesla alone -- to bypass state laws...

https://secure.njcar.org/secure/images/uploadedimages/2019-Nielsen-Eric.jpg" alt="" width="300" hspace="10" vspace="10" border="0" align="right"> 02/08/2019 NJ CAR is proud to announce that Eric Nielsen, the Dealer Principal of Dover Dodge Chrysler Jeep, Inc., was named one of five regional finalists for the 2019 TIME Dealer of the Year award at the NADA Show in San...

For those who are active in social media, particularly Facebook and Twitter, NJ CAR encourages dealer members, employees, colleagues, and other contacts to connect with the Coalition in order to receive information and communicate in as many ways as possible.We invite anyone with a Facebook account to “LIKE”...