bareyb
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What are "electric plates" I've not heard of these before. My fantasy is, they allow you to use the HOV lane... but I'm guessing that's not it... (too bad).
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EV plates getting popular
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They are reserved for electric vehicles only. You get nothing special other than a reduced registration fee ($38.00/2y??) and some exclusivity.
bareyb
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They need to come up with another system for HOV besides those stickers... grumble... grumble...
1216 EL is located in Normal Illinois
1975 Sebring-Vanguard CitiCar National Plug In Day Normal Illinois
236 EL is in Springfield Illinois
Red Nissan LEAF Wabash Avenue Springfield Illinois
Model S 585 EL Normal IL
https://iggyz.com/?p=25522
White Model S
https://iggyz.com/?p=25444
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midwestLemur
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Dre78
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Spied 150 EL driving north on La Salle on Friday. Plates were slapped onto a white Model 3; wonder what they were transferred from?
eCharcoal
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The IL SOS website actually provides an EL plate count. It’s even broken down to each county and even zip code. I found it quite interesting! As of October, there were 18048 EV registrations in Illinois.
https://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/vehicles/statistics/electric/electric101519.pdf
https://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/vehicles/statistics/electric/electric101519.pdf
Dre78
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MediumFidelity
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It's great that they are roughly sequential. You get a peak into when someone joined the club.
My kids call them the "ELon" plates.
My kids call them the "ELon" plates.
jgillispie
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Total count from the cyberdrive site says TOTAL COUNT 26222 as of January 2021.
So that leaves a few thousand at least that have left the state or been let go. Also I see at least a few EV's each week with regular or vanity plates on them still.
Bikeman
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Re: Illinois. Let's see now... 26,222 EV's x $100 extra registration fees per year = $2,622,222 additional revenue for roads (or to whatever). That will totally save's the state's *ss when it comes to gasoline tax revenue loss. Taxing us more is just BS IMO.
Taxing us more is just BS IMO.
eCharcoal
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Today I saw 4 Model Ys at the same stoplight. They’re everywhere. Has it breached 40000 yet? The biggest number I saw was in the 34xxx EL range.
jgillispie
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Haven't seen anything in the 40k range yet, but the plate is usually the first thing I look at when I see a Tesla on the road (esp 3 or Y). I have 507, and I get really excited when I see one lower than mine AND is a classic model S!
eCharcoal
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You’re one of the true early adopters! I think the lowest I’ve seen is 15. Well it only took 10 years to reach 40000.Haven't seen anything in the 40k range yet, but the plate is usually the first thing I look at when I see a Tesla on the road (esp 3 or Y). I have 507, and I get really excited when I see one lower than mine AND is a classic model S!
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