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Green Car Congress
MAY 24, 2021
ADM and the University of Illinois announced the successful completion of the Illinois Basin - Decatur Project (IBDP), a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project designed to evaluate and test the technology at commercial scale. km deep in the Illinois Basin.
Electrek
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Tesla has secured a long-term lease on a massive new building located in Pontoon Beach, Illinois, near St. The post Tesla has secured a massive new building in Illinois appeared first on Electrek.
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Electrek
DECEMBER 5, 2022
The EV marker will use the wind energy purchase and its other renewable energy initiatives to power up to 75% of its Normal, Illinois, manufacturing facility. The post Rivian (RIVN) will use wind energy to power up to 75% of its Illinois factory appeared first on Electrek.
Electrek
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
As electric school buses gain momentum across the US, Lion Electric announced Wednesday it produced its first “made in America” LionC zero-emission EV school bus at its Joliet, Illinois factory.
Baua Electric
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
The post Carvana government faces felony fees in Illinois appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News.
Baua Electric
AUGUST 1, 2022
An Illinois decide on Friday granted Carvana Co.’s ’s request to halt the Illinois Secretary of State’s newest revocation of its license to promote automobiles within the state.
Green Car Reports
AUGUST 17, 2021
Rivian battery supplier Samsung SDI is considering a new battery plant near the EV hopeful's Illinois factory, local NPR affiliate WGLT reported last week.
Electrek
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Tesla has now expanded the availability of its real-time data car insurance product to car owners in Illinois. more… The post Tesla expands its real-time data car insurance product to Illinois appeared first on Electrek.
Electrek
MARCH 29, 2021
In a lawsuit filed in Cook County Court, Illinois, Rivian and Lucid Motors are being sued for their direct-to-consumer business model. The suit also lists Illinois secretary of state Jesse White as a defendant.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
This first-of-a-kind fully integrated sustainable fuels production facility will be located in the Marquis Industrial Complex in Hennepin, Illinois, just two hours southwest of Chicago, on a 2,500-acre industrial site adjacent to the Illinois River.
Green Car Reports
APRIL 1, 2015
Green Illinois air pollution emissions legislation Over the past few years, some of America''s, shall we say, less enlightened drivers hit upon a new trend. They started modifying big diesel trucks to spew clouds of soot and smoke whenever the driver hit the accelerator. It''s called "rolling coal"--and drivers of hybrid and electric cars report that it often seemed to be directed at them.
EV Solutions
JUNE 7, 2022
House Bill 3125 (also referred to as “HB3125”) proposes new building construction in the state of Illinois to include physical space for charging stations.
Baua Electric
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
and the Illinois secretary of state met Wednesday in Illinois courtroom for a scheduled listening to — the newest step in a authorized problem that is. Representatives for Carvana Co.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 14, 2019
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Grainger College of Engineering intend to form the Midwest Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Coalition to raise awareness of the potential for hydrogen and fuel cells to provide energy resilience and security, reduce emissions and foster economic growth.
Green Car Reports
MAY 10, 2021
Lion Electric announced Friday that it will open a factory in Joliet, Illinois, to build electric school buses and heavy-duty commercial trucks. Vehicle production is scheduled to start in the second half of 2022.
Green Car Congress
MAY 8, 2021
As part of its agreement with the government of Illinois, Lion has committed to an initial investment of at least US$70 million over a 3-year period. The Will County region in Illinois has a history of manufacturing, and Lion plans to build a robust local supply chain within the area. Canada-based Lion Electric Company, a leading manufacturer of all-electric medium- and heavy-duty urban vehicles, has selected Joliet, Ill., for the construction of its US manufacturing facility.
Teslarati
MARCH 15, 2022
While a camera-based DMS has evident advantages, a class action complaint has been proposed against Tesla in Illinois, with the Plaintiff claiming that the company’s in-cabin driver monitoring system violates the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have utilized a series of simulations to model the performance of twin-engine hybrid-electric general-aviation propulsion systems. —Phillip Ansell, assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois.
Electrek
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
The solar industry in Illinois is reaping the rewards of the state’s Climate and Equitable Jobs Act that passed five months ago. more… The post Illinois to shut all fossil fuel plants by 2045 and invest $580M a year in renewables [Update] appeared first on Electrek.
Electrek
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): The governor of Illinois has signed a bill that makes the state a US clean energy leader. more… The post EGEB: Illinois to shut all fossil fuel plants by 2045 and invest $580M a year in renewables [Update] appeared first on Electrek.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 30, 2012
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn and representatives from the Illinois Tollway, 350Green LLC and 7-Eleven, Inc. 7-Eleven convenience stores at four of the Illinois Tollway Oases now have dedicated space for fast-charging stations. The Chicago-Area EV Infrastructure Project is funded in part by the state’s Illinois Jobs Now! The project is one of several initiatives now underway in Illinois to promote the adoption and use of electric vehicles. The Illinois Jobs Now!
Electrek
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): The governor of Illinois will sign a bill tomorrow that will make the state a US clean energy leader. more… The post EGEB: Illinois to shut all fossil fuel plants by 2045 and invest $580M a year in renewables appeared first on Electrek.
EV Obssesion
MAY 7, 2021
Manufacturing Facility in Illinois, the Largest All-Electric Medium & Heavy-Duty Vehicles Plant in the U.S. 100% Electric Vehicles Electric Buses Electric Trucks Electric Vehicles Heavy-Duty Vehicles Illinois Lion Electric manufacturing
Green Car Reports
JUNE 10, 2019
The Illinois legislature has backed away from a proposed $1,000 registration fee targeted at electric cars that was met with scorn and opposition from automakers and electric-car advocates. Instead, the legislature imposed a new registration fee of $248 on electric cars as part of a sweeping measure to build income for the state's highway funds. road tax
Green Car Congress
JUNE 14, 2020
A new study from University of Illinois shows that speed reductions in São Paulo, Brazil, significantly reduced fatal accidents and increased travel times only minimally. Traffic accidents are the leading cause of non-natural deaths worldwide. Lower speed limits may help prevent accidents. But speed-reduction policies can be controversial and effects are not well documented.
Teslarati
APRIL 1, 2021
Lucid Motors and Rivian were sued by the Illinois Automobile Dealers Association, the Chicago Automobile Trade Association, and some individual franchised auto dealerships in the state for selling vehicles directly to consumers.
Green Car Reports
JULY 24, 2015
plug-in cars charging charging infrastructure Illinois legislationAs more public electric-car charging stations appear, they're creating a thorny etiquette issue. Charging stations may occupy parking spaces that everyone wants to use--no matter what they are driving. Sometimes, an electric car driver will pull up to a station, only to find that an internal-combustion-engined car is blocking it. Drivers call this.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 3, 2018
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have mixed metal compounds with perchloric acid to create a stable, efficient electrocatalytic material for the oxygen evolution reaction in acidic media. —Hong Yang, a co-author and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Illinois.
Green Car Reports
JUNE 10, 2019
The Illinois legislature has backed away from a proposed $1,000 registration fee targeted at electric cars that was met with scorn and opposition from automakers and electric-car advocates. Instead, the legislature imposed a new registration fee of $248 on electric cars as part of a sweeping measure to build income for the state's highway funds. road tax
Green Car Congress
APRIL 8, 2017
The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced that the Illinois Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage (ICCS) project in Decatur, Illinois, has begun operation by injecting carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) into a large saline reservoir. Simon Sandstone in the Illinois Basin—one of the largest saline aquifers in the world.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 22, 2013
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed a new law to increase the speed limit from 65 to 70 mph (105 to 113 km/h) on rural four-lane highways, and to lower the limit by five mph for excessive speeding. The new law lowers that threshold to 26 mph over the limit to increase safety on Illinois roads.
Green Car Reports
MAY 14, 2019
Among states, incentives for electric cars vary wildly—from Colorado, which offers a $5,000 tax credit for EV buyers, to Illinois, where the legislature just proposed a $1,000 annual registration fee for electric cars. As states implement—or discontinue—various EV incentives, the effect on sales has been dramatic. For example. tax credit state laws
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 21, 2011
The Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium (MGSC), one of seven regional partnerships created by the US Department of Energy (DOE) to advance carbon storage technologies nationwide ( earlier post ), has begun injecting carbon dioxide for their large-scale CO 2 injection test in Decatur, Illinois. The CO 2 is being captured from the Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) Ethanol Production Facility in Decatur, Illinois.
InsideEVs
MAY 12, 2021
It is poised to be the largest all-electric medium and heavy-duty vehicle plant in the country
Green Car Congress
MAY 6, 2017
In a new open-access paper in Nature Communications , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers describe how their successful integration of several cutting-edge technologies—creation of standardized genetic components, implementation of customizable genome editing tools, and large-scale automation of molecular biology laboratory tasks—will enhance the ability to work with yeast.
Green Car Congress
MAY 23, 2013
CleanFUEL USA has partnered with the City of Springfield, Ill., to convert 24 police patrol cars and pickup trucks to clean burning propane autogas. We estimate our fuel savings in the first year alone to be more than $82,000. Transitioning our fleet to propane autogas was an extremely easy decision to make because we are saving taxpayer dollars, improving the environment through cleaner auto emissions and supporting a domestically produced fuel source.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 20, 2013
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have demonstrated a high-power and high-energy density microbattery constructed from interdigitated three-dimensional (3D) bicontinuous nanoporous electrodes. King also is affiliated with the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology; the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory; the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory; and the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois.
InsideEVs
NOVEMBER 6, 2021
History in the making: a bunch of electric pickups in a parking lot in America
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 16, 2013
A policy analysis by two University of Illinois researchers argues that Congress should minimally modify, not repeal, the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). In the study, law professor Jay P. Kesan and Timothy A.
Green Car Reports
APRIL 2, 2020
Rivian does expect a pandemic-related delay for the R1T electric pickup and R1S electric SUV, which were due to be produced starting late this year, the company confirmed to Green Car Reports Wednesday.
Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 10, 2013
Don''t let the name fool you; Normal, Illinois, is actually unique. That''s because this small town--with a population of 53,837--has more than 300 plug-in cars roaming its streets. And that''s because the town, along with neighboring Bloomington, has made a concerted effort to encourage the adoption of electric cars. Dubbed EV Town, the initiative
Green Car Congress
JUNE 29, 2012
announced the successful commissioning of its first fully integrated biorefinery (IBR) in Peoria, Illinois, to produce algal oil. Solazyme, Inc. Solazyme has been running routine fermentations at commercial scale since 2007 and began running fermentation operations at the Peoria facility in Q4 2011. Solazyme uses heterotrophic microalgae—i.e., they grow in the dark (in fermenters) by consuming sugars.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 7, 2011
Illinois-based Li-ion manufacturer AllCell Technologies, LLC received a $460,433 grant as part of the Illinois Energy Plan. The PCM technology spun-out from Illinois Institute of Technology and AllCell developed its products as the first tenant in the state-funded incubator at University Technology Park at IIT. AllCell plans to increase production capacity for lithium-ion batteries at the company’s manufacturing facility in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood.
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