Suburban Chicago college gets state grant to drive more students towards EV-centric careers

'It increases our ability to have more students with more hands-on with more equipment.'

CHICAGO — It's not your imagination -- there are more electric vehicles on the roads. The U.S. Energy Secretary said in 2023, 1.4 million electric vehicles were sold.That's 50% more than in 2022. Eventually, those vehicles will need service, so we'll need more mechanics to safely work on electric vehicles .That's exactly what the College of Lake County plans to do with a new half-million dollar grant: train more technicians.

'Collision Department Chair Octavio Cavazos said working on EVs can be dangerous if you're not trained properly. For example:'We can't dry paint like a regular car because we can't bring the batteries up to temperature,' Cavazos said.CLS can now offer that kind of training to even more students, having just received a $500,000 grant to expand EV learning.'It increases our ability to have more students with more hands-on, with more equipment.

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