Illinois is offering buyers an incentive of $4,000 per vehicle. But at the federal level, the Trump administration is not a fan of EVs.
GUESTS: Karen Weigert, Reset sustainability contributor, director of Loyola University Chicago’s Baumhart Center for Social Enterprise and Responsibility, and Dany Robles, legislative relations director, Illinois Environmental Council
“We need a lot more [charging stations] just to meet the demand of people and I think the news that we’re hearing about President Trump repealing the national charging infrastructure money, the state was really needing a lot of those funds to make sure we had charging stations for electric vehicles especially places downstate where there isn’t as much availability on highways,” says Dany Robles. “Fifty-percent of the money that was redirected from these grants were meant for low-income communities to make sure we are building equitably [in regards to] the future of electrification.”
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