Round Rock City Council OKs electric vehicles purchase

“We know we're going to get 10 years,” McDowell said. “My assumption would be [that] in about five or six years, there'll be a battery pack and we can just change it out. you could just keep driving it until you wore the suspension out and then you can replace that. So there potentially could be a very long term on these vehicles.”

Ongoing supply chain issues mean that this purchase will come with a delay ranging from six months to a year, according to the city.

The replacements will be funded out of the city’s drainage, utility and general funds with a combined price tag of $490,317.21. Vehicles being replaced will be auctioned off via buy board.