If you run trucks in Illinois, you didn’t need a headline to tell you what happened this month, you saw it at the pump. In the week of September 21, on-highway diesel across the Midwest averaged $6.68 a gallon, higher than the $6.53 national figure making news and up more than forty cents in a
In this month’s Board Insights, Samantha Bingham brings clean transportation home. In “Making Electric Transportation Work for More Families,” she describes how her family’s needs changed and what it took to make a battery-electric car and a plug-in hybrid minivan work for them. For about a year, that meant relying entirely on public charging, with
This month’s newsletter looks at electrification from two angles. In Innovation Lane, we finally get to the Megawatt Charging System (MCS), the new standard that lets a Class 8 electric truck recharge during a driver’s 30-minute rest break, with hardware already in the ground in California and corridor sites announced along I-5 and I-10. In
Matching the Fuel to the Mission: August 2027 | Fuel for Thought – From the Chair Read More »
Dear Readers, In this month’s Innovation Lane, Bailey Arnold offers a clear-eyed explainer on biodiesel and renewable diesel — how they’re made, how they differ, and why Illinois fleets should think of them as complementary rather than competing. It’s the kind of practical, technology-neutral analysis IACT was built to deliver. I want to build on
The Fuel That’s Already Here: July 2027 | Fuel for Thought – From the Chair Read More »
Dear Readers, Happy summer! One of the questions IACT has been asking itself over the past year is both simple and important: how can we be most useful to the stakeholders we serve across Illinois? As we have listened to fleets, local governments, fuel providers, educators, community organizations, and industry partners, the answer has become
Dear Readers, We just wrapped up our Green Drives Conference and Expo at the Danada House in Wheaton, and I am more optimistic than ever about the future of clean transportation in Illinois. This year’s event brought together nearly 175 participants, a dozen exhibitors, and more than two dozen alternative-fuel vehicles and technologies, creating a
Reflections from Green Drives: May 2026 | Fuel for Thought – From the Chair Read More »
Dear Readers, In March, I was elected by the IACT Board to serve as Chair for the next biennium. I am honored by the opportunity and energized by the work ahead as we continue advancing IACT’s vision. I am a lifelong Illinois resident, born and raised in the Quad Cities along the Mississippi River before