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New Jersey’s gasoline tax will drop 8.3 cents to 42.4 cents a gallon on Oct. 1 after drivers were forced to pay more at the pump a year ago, state officials announced Aug. 24.

Cruise, the San Francisco autonomous car company backed by General Motors, is launching a new initiative to support renewable energy efforts in California’s Central Valley that takes advantage of solar power.

Fuel cell technology provider Hyzon Motors Inc. and renewable fuels company Raven SR Inc. announced their first waste-to-green hydrogen production hub.

Bollinger Motors Inc. said Aug. 25 it will sell Class 4 and Class 5 electric commercial trucks in addition to the Class 3 vehicles it unveiled last year in a move the Oak Park, Mich.-based startup said would offer greater coverage to customers.

White House and other administration officials told the Environmental Protection Agency that its industry-backed plan for tightening auto emissions limits was too lax, but the agency rebuffed those warnings and released the proposal with provisions that could lessen its bite.

A.P. Moller-Maersk has ordered eight new vessels, each costing $175 million, that can be propelled by cleanly made methanol instead of an oil-based fuel.

Chevron Corp. and joint venture partner Brightmark, a waste solutions manager, will build an additional 10 facilities to produce dairy biomethane to fuel longhaul trucks.

TravelCenters of America Inc. announced the opening of a TA Express travel center in Edgerton, Kan.

The national average price for a gallon of diesel fell 3.2 cents to $3.324 in the biggest price drop in more than 15 months, according to Energy Information Administration data released Aug. 23.

Nikola Corp. announced the U.S. Department of Energy awarded it a grant of $2 million to advance research into autonomous refueling technologies for future hydrogen fueling stations.