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An electric Tri-State? Illinois Tollway looks at embedding charging equipment in parts of I-294
The Chicago Tribune ^ | September 26, 2018 | Mary Wisniewski

Posted on 10/04/2018 10:56:02 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The Illinois Tollway is examining the possibility of embedding equipment into I-294 that would charge electric vehicles as they drive along the road.

The agency is at the start of a $4 billion project to rebuild and widen a 22-mile stretch of I-294, also known as the Tri-State. As part of the project, the Tollway wants to add infrastructure to charge electric vehicles.

Off the highway, that could include both conventional charging stations and “super-charger” stations that power up electric cars and trucks more quickly. The agency also is studying “smart-powered lanes,” a type of technology being tried in Sweden and considered in other parts of the United States.

These lanes would have charging technology buried under the pavement, said Kevin Artl, the Tollway’s chief operating officer. Power from the road would be transferred to a receiver on the bottom of the frames of electric vehicles and would wirelessly charge vehicles as they drive past at full-speed.

Such receivers are currently add-ons for electric vehicles, but they could become standard in the industry, Tollway officials said.

The Tollway Board will be briefed on the concept at its monthly meeting on Thursday. Artl said the Tollway is examining what the demand might be for the in-road charging technology, and should know how to proceed in about two years. Construction on the portion of the Tri-State stretching from Balmoral Avenue near O'Hare International Airport to 95th Street in Bridgeview should be complete in 2026. The research is part of the cost of the whole Tollway project, he said.

Artl said demand for electric passenger cars, trucks and buses is growing, and the Tollway wants to be ready for it.

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1 posted on 10/04/2018 10:56:02 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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Ill-a-noise must have a great financial footing.....


2 posted on 10/04/2018 10:58:01 AM PDT by Paladin2
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I don’t understand the leftist obcession with coal powered cars


3 posted on 10/04/2018 11:00:59 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I’ll vote for nuke powered vehicles, maybe a mini reactor in the trunk. Until then, I’ll pass on electrical vehicles. This form of juice ain’t free.


4 posted on 10/04/2018 11:11:43 AM PDT by umgud
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Much wasted energy with an induction charging scheme. I thought they were about saving energy.


5 posted on 10/04/2018 11:16:32 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Cynicism is the only refuge in a world that is determined to eliminate itself.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

LOL. I guess when you’re going bankrupt, spending an extra couple billion on some useless feel-good “Green” energy project like this doesn’t make a difference.


6 posted on 10/04/2018 11:18:51 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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Sucks to be in a Pacer with a Pacemaker on I-294


7 posted on 10/04/2018 11:24:17 AM PDT by Waverunner (I'd like to welcome our new overlords, say hello to my little friend)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“The Illinois Tollway is examining the possibility of embedding equipment into I-294 that would charge electric vehicles as they drive along the road.”

Yet another connected illannoy somebody who will get an absurdly expensive contract.


8 posted on 10/04/2018 11:27:49 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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That should waste an enormous amount of energy.


9 posted on 10/04/2018 11:28:47 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

You can always gauge the worth of a project by who is going to pay for it.


10 posted on 10/04/2018 11:29:25 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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Let’s just put up that mesh that they use to power bumper cars and make a bumper car lane. This would also have the added benefit of reducing highway fatalities.


11 posted on 10/04/2018 11:53:44 AM PDT by Boogieman
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Much wasted energy with an induction charging scheme. I thought they were about saving energy.

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I think this plan is about politicians stealing money.


12 posted on 10/04/2018 12:00:38 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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The agency is at the start of a $4 billion project to rebuild and widen a 22-mile stretch of I-294,

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I how much Trump could build it for?


13 posted on 10/04/2018 12:01:52 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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Does anybody believe this is cost effective technology? Major highway construction projects in big city metro areas cost billions. Why would you embed technology in a roadbed? Technology changes so fast it doesn’t make any sense. Chicago is short of rush hour traffic lanes as it is. Why would you want to put citizens in constant construction delays and maintenance delays for a such a system?.


14 posted on 10/04/2018 12:03:21 PM PDT by EVO X
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This would cost how much? And who do they intend to pay for it,a plan that only benefits a few electric vehicles?


15 posted on 10/04/2018 12:07:13 PM PDT by oldtech
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assuming such embedded technology ever got used, by that time it would be both obsolete and non-functional from neglect and decay ... simply complete insanity ... would be cheaper to simply retrofit when and if actually ever needed ...


16 posted on 10/04/2018 12:12:37 PM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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It would be really useful if the electric cars that are using this would be tapped into each other data wise so that the cars could “platoon” down the highway at high speeds.

On the highway, autonomous vehicles would be better drivers than human drivers.


17 posted on 10/04/2018 12:16:05 PM PDT by glorgau
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What say you guys?


18 posted on 10/04/2018 12:20:54 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks ( The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
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I how much Trump could build it for?

$400 million, maybe?

19 posted on 10/04/2018 12:21:38 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks ( The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
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Perhaps they should pay down their debt first...??


20 posted on 10/04/2018 12:26:03 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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