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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
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Ill-a-noise must have a great financial footing.....
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posted on
10/04/2018 10:58:01 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I dont understand the leftist obcession with coal powered cars
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posted on
10/04/2018 11:00:59 AM PDT
by
FatherofFive
(Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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.
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posted on
10/04/2018 11:11:43 AM PDT
by
umgud
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Much wasted energy with an induction charging scheme. I thought they were about saving energy.
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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.)
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.
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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.)
To: I want the USA back
Sucks to be in a Pacer with a Pacemaker on I-294
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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)
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.
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posted on
10/04/2018 11:27:49 AM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
That should waste an enormous amount of energy.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
You can always gauge the worth of a project by who is going to pay for it.
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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.")
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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.
To: I want the USA back
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.
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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.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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?
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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.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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?.
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posted on
10/04/2018 12:03:21 PM PDT
by
EVO X
To: Mr Ramsbotham
This would cost how much? And who do they intend to pay for it,a plan that only benefits a few electric vehicles?
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posted on
10/04/2018 12:07:13 PM PDT
by
oldtech
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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 ...
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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!))
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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.
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posted on
10/04/2018 12:16:05 PM PDT
by
glorgau
To: BobL; sphinx
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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 ......)
To: Moonman62
I how much Trump could build it for?$400 million, maybe?
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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 ......)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Perhaps they should pay down their debt first...??
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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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