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New Central Florida Highway Will Charge Electric Vehicles as They Drive

April 2, 2024 /

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Bear Paw Development Corporation is a private non-profit organization created for the purpose of administering programs to help improve regional economic conditions in Hill, Blaine, Liberty, Chouteau and Phillips Counties and the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy's Indian Reservations.

State Road 516 will be equipped to recharge batteries of electric cars and trucks as they drive along the toll expressway. Although it will be less than five miles long, the road will cost nearly $550 million.

S.R. 516 will be less than 5 miles long, or a fraction of the expressway authority’s 125 miles of highway. But the future has to start somewhere and the road’s environmentally considerate capabilities will be operational and not merely experimental.

“Part of what this pilot is, is to establish the standard of what goes into the road and the standard of what is built into cars,” Pressimone said. “This could definitely be a reality for us.”

Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel

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