“We are going from the Midwest to the west coast, California and back, that is about 2,000 miles,” said Mike Kucharski, co-owner of JKC Trucking in Chicago. “Three-hundred miles. That won’t get us out of the state of Illinois before we would have to shut down, recharge for 12 hours, and then do another charge in 300 miles.”
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.