The Electric Car and the New Normal

About halfway between St. Louis and Chicago, nestled in the fertile corn and soybean fields of Illinois, a quiet electric car revolution is sprouting up in the town of Normal, a town that in some ways is anything but.                                                                                                                                                                

That’s because this vibrant, forward-looking community of 50,000—along with its adjacent sister city of Bloomington (pop 74,000)—calls itself “EV Town.” And it’s becoming a midwestern Mecca for the zero emission automobile. That’s right, here in the heart of the Prairie State, where big-wheeled pickups and corn silos the size of space shuttles rule, plug-in cars have come to town.                                                  

 

Locals say they are here to stay . . continue reading at Huffington Post