Spokane City Council on electric cars: if you buy them, charging stations will follow

It’s a new car but the same old debate.

When presented with a proposal Monday to lease more than a dozen new hybrid vehicles for city workers, the Spokane City Council implored officials in City Hall to embrace electric vehicles instead.

The conversation mirrored the debate the council had last year when it insisted the Spokane Police Department pilot the use of electric Tesla vehicles, over the objections of city officials who cautioned that the infrastructure to charge them doesn’t yet exist in Spokane.

“I’m a little frustrated by this logic, because it seems circular to me. We can get the charging stations, we just have to order the

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