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Sing the Auto Electric!

That’s what Governor J.B. Pritzker hopes, anyway — his goal is to get one million electric vehicles on Illinois roads by 2030. Last fall, the Reimagining Electric Vehicles in Illinois Act passed the legislature with overwhelming bipartisan support. The REV Illinois Act (vroom vroom!), a package of

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