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Tesla to split $100M award for electric truck charging corridor in Illinois

Tesla, along with three other industry partners, quietly backed an Illinois Environmental Protection Agency application that won $100 million in funding

Tesla, along with three other industry partners, quietly backed an Illinois Environmental Protection Agency application that won $100 million in funding to build electric truck charging stations across the state, TechCrunch has learned. A different $97 million project backed by Tesla, which focused on building an electric trucking corridor between northern California to southern Texas, was not selected for funding in either round, as TechCrunch reported earlier this week. Megha Lakchaura, Illinois’ state EV officer, told TechCrunch in an interview that she decided to pursue CFI funding last year after seeing infrastructure startup TeraWatt and New Mexico’s Department of Transportation win $63 million to build heavy-duty charging along the I-10 corridor.

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