http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-biz-tollway-electric-charging-20180926-story.htmlThe Illinois Tollway is examining the possibility of embedding equipment into I-294 that would charge electric vehicles as they drive along the road.
I don’t get it. Your vehicle has a transponder registered to it and is V-toll I.D.’d by the license plate. That makes no sense to have to check an OTHER box. How is that any different than the Volt. Mine has a transponder I don’t recall any special boxes to check when I registered it. I just checked my tollway registration. Under vehicle class it says [ auto / motorcycle (2 axles) ]No, the tollway is a quasi private/government agency. Everyone pays a toll, fuel type does not matter. However, EV's are consider "Vehicle: Other" (not a regular car IOW) for this system —not that they tell you that anywhere.
I started getting huge penalty bills because even though our Bolt has a toll transponder, since we did not check that Other box, they essentially treated it as having no transponder. They did back off after a phone call.
Your’s was due the EV license plate. A state of Illinois thing.The Volt has a gas engine and is not considered as an EV like the Bolt. wssix99 nailed it, the EV license plate makes the Bolt different. So apparently there was a record mismatch in the tollway system. My transponder's "car" designation did not match the EV vehicle license type of "other".
They did reverse the penalties (about $70!) after the call straightened out what was going on.
That you have car, truck, motorcycle, other as vehicle types and then the Bolt is thrown into "other" because of it's motive energy source is a bit weird. It's not a car because it lacks the Volt's ICE seems like a bit of non-logic to me, but whatever, is what it is.
What part of I-94 are you referring too?Now, what's Wisconsin doing along I-94?
I also wonder if the Age of the transponder has something to do with it not being read on occasion.Great info, thanks!
For many years we kept the transponder in the 2011 Volt's cubby on top of the dash (later cars don't have this cubby). Never had an issue until recently. Maybe it was being video tolled the whole time, I don't know. After a spate of non-read penalties (fixed with a phone call) we now keep it on the glass.
What vehicle are you paying the $100 EV fee on?Yup, and while that's a LITTLE much for me, the gas tax I don't spend is about $60 so it's not THAT far off, and I admittedly don't drive a whole lot. It probably steams up the lead-footed Prius owners, though, who only getting about 35 MPG and are burning gas for every trip...
Can’t see signatures when using Tapatalk.2012 Volt. Just like the signature says.
At one time, their was supposed to be a 2-tiered EV fee. $75 for Plug-in Hybrid and $100 for BEV. Which one are you paying ? Or have you even had a 2019 renewal yet, since the law went into effect Jan. 1, 2018?They'll figure it out eventually. And bill you for it.
