The answer is important in part because Rivian vehicles are expensive. The cheapest Rivian now starts at $67,500. With the typical tax rate on a vehicle sale 6.25%, that’s at least $4,200 in tax revenue for every vehicle. If Rivian sells tens of thousands of vehicles each year, that’s big money.
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.