Category: Road Warrior

September 11, 2025 Market Place Realities Cause Automakers to Change EV Plans The automotive industry is continually changing. Yesteryear’s cutting-edge technologies yield to newer innovations. State-of-the-art factories become inefficient and obsolete. And even seemingly foundational market segments (like the formerly ubiquitous family sedan) lose significant segment volume to newer trends (crossovers and unibody SUVs).  Such changes, however, pale…

September 4, 2025 Electric Bills Skyrocket No doubt, between your home and your business, you have noticed the big jump in electric bills across the state. Though this increase was announced months ago, it didn’t receive too much coverage or attention among the public until this summer, when everyone opened their bill and was shocked…

August 28, 2025 Can Safety Inspections Return? It’s now been 15 years since Gov. Christie, as part of his first-year budget as a new Governor swept into office on a mandate for reform and cost-cutting, pushed through the Legislature the bill eliminating the state’s requirement that passenger vehicles must undergo safety inspections on a regular…

August 23, 2025   Dear NJGCA Member, The Board of Directors of the New Jersey Gasoline, Convenience, Automotive Association has nominated the following members for election to the Board of Directors at the meeting to be held on September 24th at 12pm.  3-Year Term   Craig Copeland Kashmir Gill Danny Jallo Amit Pujara Muhammad Sarfaraz  …

August 21, 2025 EV Fast Chargers Grants Announced This week the NJ DEP announced the availability of funding for businesses looking to install battery electric vehicle fast chargers. This offering is a result of new funds in the State budget and is part of the “It Pay$ to Plug In” program.  The State will pay…

August 14, 2025 Trade Tariffs: Part-Sourcing and Profitability Earlier this week, NJGCA participated in a webinar exploring how the ongoing tariff uncertainty may impact the automotive landscape in unforeseen ways. The webinar was hosted by the Auto Care Association, a national group representing varying facets of the overall auto care industry.  Most of the presentation…

August 7, 2025 Motor Fuel Trends As part of the data trends we track at NJGCA, we recently received updated statistics from the State about motor fuel sales in 2024. 2024 saw another year-over-year increase in the total number of both gasoline and diesel gallons sold in the State, to about 3.71 billion gallons of…

July 31, 2025 Floor stocks tax TOMORROW on Cigarettes and Vapes Friday August 1st means an increase in the excise taxes on cigarettes and vaping fluid because of the state budget signed into law by Gov. Murphy on June 30th. While the higher tax will be passed on by distributors after August 1st, there is…

July 17, 2025 DEP Info A few weeks ago, we followed up on our Spring Member Conference by offering a few DEP-related notes to members that did not attend the conference. Since then, we’ve answered a few random questions, and even sent out a notice last week that was passed along to us regarding many…

July 10, 2025 “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” Officially signed into law On July 4th last week, President Trump signed into law what may be the biggest law he will sign in his entire second term, the “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB). There’s been a lot of back and forth in the crafting of this…