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I don't own an electric car but this is just one more reason to not live in Illinois

As if anyone needs a reason to leave Illinois. If they could just harness the muzzle energy the drive by shooters are wasting.

The electric car problems will come to every state if the democrats get put in charge.

Thats Chicago

The rest of Illinois would be happy to take the state back Im sure

What kind of resale will there be on a used EV? Is anyone going to want 2-5 year old technology? I think buyers will want the newer tech more efiicient EV's.

Power grid? LA already has blackouts during the summer months. Now imagine 10 million cars charging up every day. Then sitting in traffic with the air conditioners running to and from work.

At $10k/ft of freeway lane, the $5 or $10 a day/vehicle in gas tax pays the interest on the money for enough road to be in stop go traffic, not free flow traffic.

We were already under funding roads.

One theory is that we do not have the greatest freeway system because we have the greatest economy, but rather we have the greatest economy because we have the greatest freeway system.

China is outbuilding us in freeway lane miles.

There's a pun in there somewhere.

Where I live and hunt it's not exactly electric truck friendly!

The way it will work is that most of those 10 million cars will be charging up every night.

“To put it simply, electric cars will take some of the enormous profits the fossil fuel companies have been making for the past 150 years and transfer them to utility companies. Fossil fuel companies may complain because they see dollar bills flying out of their wallets, but utility companies should be offering everyone incentives to buy electric cars. That’s what smart business people would do. In fact, Southern California Edison is doing precisely that at this very moment.”

I cant either, now. But Orville and Wilbur Wright didn't figure their aircraft they flew at Kitty Hawk could haul tons of freight over thousands of miles nonstop.
We are in the early stages of development of electric vehicles. Im sure more than a few guys on horseback laughed like hell at that progressive minded sport that was stuck in a rut on a muddy road in his model T. Im sure they didn't imagine paved roads with 6 lanes and gas stations every 400 feet.

The other day I saw a 3 electric docking stations at a Carvers Fast food restaurant.
For now I will keep driving my Silverado.

Come on Rock you know very well figuring out how to tax is the least difficult task the government has. LOL.

At best, electric cars would only be useful within small sections of cities.

So will everyone who pulls up to a gas station with a electric pump.

I don't know why people cant see it just like you wrote....who in their right mind ever thought we would go to the moon?......bob

Think how long we had both cell phones and land lines. Some still do have both. It will be the same for many families. Some seem only their own situation. They fail to recognize that most people only haul their butts and groceries around and have a 20 mile commute to work. I pointed out before I live in a subdivision of thousands of houses. There are probably only a handful of us living here that have a need for the horsepower we are driving around in.
Houses in the future will be prewired for your charging system just like modern houses are wired for your electric dryer.
This isnt an overnight thing. Every gas station isnt going to suddenly going to close down and every car dealership offering only electric cars. Most of us will finish out our lives with our combustion engine vehicles.

Not everyone wants, needs or finds good use of a smart phone. My first mobile phone came in a bag and took all night to charge and if I used it it was out of juice by 1:00. All the thing did was made calls. Now my smart phone does a 100 different tasks and will run all day on a half hours worth of charging. Theres places to plug them in everywhere. You don't even need the heavy 110 power block any more as everywhere you look theres a USB port to plug into. I even bought a small external battery to recharge 2 additional times if neccessary for less than $15.

The debate here is more when and to what extend electric vehicles will occupy garages and roads ,not if. Someone will figure out how to overcome the problems. Just like they have with every technical advancement available to the commoners. We need to understand we here are a niche not common.

Will the money actually GO to roads, or will it be siphoned off like the gas tax money has been for decades?

You’re pretty fugking brainwashed. Do you have any idea how much revenue IL collects from tolls and property taxes and sales tax and income taxes?

Have you ever driven on an IL toll road? They are pieces of fugking schit.

Electric car or not any new tax in Illinois is a goat fugking scam plain and simple.

Fugk no.

Just another scam dreamt up by corrupt democrats.

Won't matter in 12 years. More bs on the way.

It’s pretty obvious who reads Popular Mechamics and who doesn’t.

JFC some of you guys are as short sighted as that AOC [bleep].