Electric charger installation underway at Rosalia

Work is underway at Rosalia's Texaco station to install a fast-charge charging station for electric vehicles. Avista Utilities is undertaking the work to install the charger at the converted visitor's center as part of a two-year pilot program.

The charger, called a DC Fast Charger, has the capability to charge an electric vehicle at 50 kilowatts.

“A car can get from 20 percent up to 80 percent in about 20 minutes,” Rendall Farley, Avista program manager of electric transportation, previously told the Gazette.

Farley also previously said Rosalia was chosen as a location in the two-year trial b...