Illinois
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The Illinois legislature recently passed a bill that would fine drivers who block electric-car charging.
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'Rolling Coal' Fine Would Be $5,000 Under Proposed Illinois Law
Rolling coal may soon be more aggressively punished in Illinois.
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IL Suspends Clean-Car Rebates; GA Tax Credit In Trouble Too; Texas Next?
State tax credits and purchase rebates have proven effective in kickstarting the early market for plug-in electric cars and other green vehicles. But they don't last forever, as buyers in Illinois and Georgia are learning; the Ilinois program has been suspended, and Georgia seems likely to kill off...
John Voelcker -
Famed U.S. Route 66 To Go Electric In Illinois, With State Support
Illinois will invest $1 million in charging stations along the historic Route 66 route.
Stephen Edelstein -
Even Small Towns See Demand For Electric-Car Charging
Naperville, Illinois has seen a surge in electric-car popularity.
Stephen Edelstein -
How Did A Small Illinois Town End Up With 300 Plug-In Cars?
:Normal, Illinois has become a leader in incentivizing electric cars.
Stephen Edelstein -
The long-promised announcement from Tesla Motors on expansion of its Supercharger network has been delayed by the company's billion-dollar fundraising, and this week's payoff of its entire Department of Energy loan. But Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] still plans a rapid expansion of the network of fast-charging stations for its Model S electric cars. Currently there are just nine Supercharger stations, six in California and three along the Northeast Corridor from Boston through New York City to Washington, D.C. Now we've learned that the network will expand into the Midwest. At least four stations...
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Electric Car Purchase Incentives? They’re Normal in Normal
While the federal government has a blanket $7,500 tax credit available for anyone who purchases an eligible electric ca, each state is at liberty to apply its own incentives to encourage people to make the switch from gasoline to electric cars. The amount of additional incentives varies from state...
Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield -
Battery Advance To Give Electric-Car Charging In Gas Fill-Up Time?
An advance in battery technology could help push past one of the persistent criticisms of electric vehicles: the extended time needed to charge the battery. Researchers at the University of Illinois published a paper in Nature Nanotechnology on a change to the cathode of a battery that allows for...
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Nanostructure Research: Electric Car Charging In 5 Minutes?
No sooner do I discuss University of Illinois researchers who have created 3D antennas for mobile phones using nanotechnology than another group of researchers at the University of Illinois (this time at Urbana-Champaign) have developed 3D material for batteries that combines the qualities of...
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Mitsubishi Picks Central Illinois For Initial Tests Of ‘i’ Electric Car
Mitsubishi was one of the first major automakers to announce plans for a mass-produced electric car and even had a working prototype out testing as far back as 2008 in the form of the first generation i-MiEV. Since then the i-MiEV has gone through a series of redesigns until finally being launched...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran