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 Tollways 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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Ill-a-noise must have a great financial footing.....
I dont understand the leftist obcession with coal powered cars
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.
Much wasted energy with an induction charging scheme. I thought they were about saving energy.
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.
“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.
That should waste an enormous amount of energy.
You can always gauge the worth of a project by who is going to pay for it.
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.
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.
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?
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?.
This would cost how much? And who do they intend to pay for it,a plan that only benefits a few electric vehicles?
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 ...
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.
What say you guys?
$400 million, maybe?
Perhaps they should pay down their debt first...??
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