By Colleen O’Dea for NJ Spotlight

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New Jersey has 146 alternative fueling stations open to the public, according to data from the Alternative Fuels Data Center.

When compared to the total number of vehicles — gasoline-powered and alternative — New Jersey ranks next to last in the nation, behind Alaska. New Jersey has just 2.1 public alternative-fuel stations per 100,000 motor vehicles. The national average is 6.3 and the highest ratio is nearly 20 stations per 100,000 total vehicles in the District of Columbia.

It’s hard to know exactly how many vehicles would be using the stations as no estimates were readily available. Data from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, which provides estimated ranges by type of vehicle by county, indicates that there were at least 270,000 alternative fuel vehicles on New Jersey’s roads in 2012. About half of them are flex-fuel, but may use gasoline instead of the ethanol fuel blend E85 or another alternative. Chuck Feinberg, chairman of the New Jersey Clean Cities Coalition, estimated that fewer than 1 percent of the state’s more than 6 million registered vehicles use alternative fuel.

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