If this happens I will setup an LLC in another state, transfer ownership of our M3, and register the car there, $1,000/yr is insanity x100.... I'd have to drive ~75k miles a year to come close to the $1,000/yr I'd spend in gas taxes driving an ICE vehicle.
This is really about stopping Tesla with the convenient side effect of killing the rest of the EV market which dealers don't want to sell anyway. The author Senator Martin Sandoval is under the dealership lobby influence.
Friends of Martin A Sandoval - Illinois Sunshine
The top donors are from car dealerships:
Rogers Auto Group $67,298.28 Mar 01, 2019
Car of Illinois $43,000.00 Aug 15, 2018
Chicago Auto Trade PAC $25,500.00 Dec 18, 2018