Electric vehicles

Electric vehicle users will eventually need to ante up their fair share for road maintenance as more motorists make the switch away from gasoline. But exactly how EV drivers will pay is still an open question in Illinois.

Senate Bill 2940 is a proposed addition to the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act, a monumental clean energy bill signed into law by Governor JB Pritzker last year.

Governor JB Pritzker is setting an ambitious goal to get a million electric vehicles on Illinois roadways by 2030. To make that happen, state transportation secretary Omer Osman says a massive build-out of charging stations is needed - and fast.

You may not see a lot of them on the road in central Illinois but electric vehicles are coming.“It’s a matter of technology,” said Brett Bergman, business…