LA police, city vehicles go green with 160 new electric cars

mercurynews.com ^ | ap

[BenLurkin]

The Los Angeles Police Department will use 100 of the vehicles, while the fire department, general services and water and power department will lease the remaining 60. More than 100 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles will also be acquired.

Garcetti says the new vehicles will make Los Angeles home to the largest city-owned fleet of pure battery electric cars in the country.

[Rusty0604]

Are criminals going to take a time out for the cops to recharge their car?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Code Green! Cruiser with dead battery corner of Figueroa and Sunset!”

[doorgunner69]

That will work out great next time SoCal has rolling brownouts.

[Truth29]

And when California starts having brown outs this summer and has to pay spot peak prices for relief because of the state anti carbon energy policies, how much will it cost the taxpayers to keep these cars on the road?

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Imagine how dismal electric vehicle sales would be if not for local, state and federal purchases.

[trisham]

Do the new cars look like this?

[kingu]

And the public is saving how... Oh, right, these ideas are never about saving the public money, only about putting forward an agenda. Whoopie, cop cars become a quarter million each instead of just 200k each.

[Scrambler Bob]

Will be sneaky quiet!

[SoCal Pubbie]

The article says they're plug in hybrids then later pure electric battery vehicles. Which is it?

[knarf]

No more high speed chases ... only OJ slo mo’s

[patq]

This will not to well against a ramming 1970 Cadillac Bro-ham

[doorgunner69]

Anyone else’s Gaydar go off with that pic?

[GreenHornet]

Somehow, I can’t see a fleet of these things chasing Jake and Elwood’s 1974 Dodge Monaco down the highway (”It’s got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it’s got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It’s a model made before catalytic converters so it’ll run good on regular gas.’)

[dfwgator]

“The new Oldsmobiles are in early this year.”

[albie]

This’ll be a regular free for all. Getaway vehicle can be a Schwinn.

[BenLurkin]

My first thought as well.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

This probably won’t be one of their “pursuit” cars.

I lease a LEAF, and it has a 110 mile range. Even blowing it out at 85 mph for extended periods of time on the interstate doesn’t drain the battery as much as having the heater/AC on full blast.

Atlanta PD has a few of them and they love them.

[COBOL2Java]

Somehow, I can’t see a fleet of these things chasing Jake and Elwood’s 1974 Dodge Monaco down the highway (”It’s got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it’s got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It’s a model made before catalytic converters so it’ll run good on regular gas.’)

[BBell]

The locals are going to have fun with these new cop cars.