✓ Verified August 14, 2026
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Driving a Cleaner Illinois — All-Electric Class 4–8 Local Freight Trucks
Also written: Driving a Cleaner Illinois · Illinois EPA VW Electric Trucks · Illinois VW Settlement grants · DCI electric truck grant
A scrap-and-replace grant that pays a share of a new all-electric local freight or drayage truck and its charging equipment when an existing diesel is scrapped, administered by the Illinois EPA Bureau of Air from the state's VW Environmental Mitigation Trust allocation.
$145,000
per Class 8 truckwhat this program pays toward one battery-electric tractor
This program’s headline amount for one truck; the amount may depend on the buyer’s circumstances. What is available now and the potential in Illinois, for any Class 8 tractor, are on the Illinois page (Grade A · 29 programs tracked).
Program signals
OPENOpen now — first come, first served while funding lasts.
TESLA SEMITesla Semi: eligible under the program’s vehicle rule — it keeps no make/model list (checked August 17, 2026). Tesla Semi in Illinois →
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- What it pays per Class 8 truck
- Open, upcoming or competitive
- What the program is, its type, where it applies, and who runs it
- Whether the Tesla Semi is admitted
- Available now and potential per truck in Illinois — the Illinois page
- Last verified date
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- Complete Program Information — the window: when it opens and closes, with dates; how the money is awarded; and every other program in Illinois that pays for a Class 8 truck
- Applicant Eligibility — who can apply, how many trucks it covers, per-fleet limits and caps
- How to Access the Money — what Driving a Cleaner Illinois stacks with and in what order, and a cautious case
- Funding remaining — what is left in the pot, as the program reports it
- Program Radar — a heads-up before this window closes or the next round opens
- Source Documents — the document behind every figure, so you can read it yourself