City vehicles could be running on electricity by 2020

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Over the next three years, you could see more than 300 of Austin’s fleet of city vehicles running on electricity – or about five percent.
That would include 72-plug-in hybrids and 258 battery electric vehicles. It’s a climate protection plan that could also save city taxpayers $3.5 million over a decade.
The first 33 vehicles such as Chevy Volts and Nissan’s Leaf could be acquired under a lease-to-own program later this year. First, council must endo