Posted on 01/14/2025 5:32:05 AM PST by TigerClaws
That’s the LAFD.
Virtue signal. Feel good local media nonsense. Truck won’t work.
It’s a quarter-million dollar paperweight.
They showed the LAFD new recruit training and it was on … diversity.
Maybe put out the fires first before getting to lessons in systemic racism?
Note the videos of the recent LA fires, the firetrucks are kept running for pumps used to boost water pressure. If this EV firetruck had to travel as much as 45 minutes to arrive on scene how much battery power for be left for pumps? Where in the desolation of the recent of the recent fires could these trucks be recharged?
Right.
But this is Leo driving his Prius to get on the private jet.
800 metric tons of CO2 from these wildfires btw. So far.
Talk about incompetence and low expectations. Using "oh yeah, problems on our newly produced products are quite common" is going to be written on America's gravestone.
turns out the LAFD EV fire truck cost $1.2 million, but can operate for only TWO hours! [comparable pumper-type diesel fire trucks run between $100,000 and $400,000]
[btw, repair costs are also bound to be astronomical since only the manufacturer will be able to repair/maintain the power train ...]
Details:
The Los Angeles Fire Department’s (LAFD) electric fire truck
cost around $1.2 million. The base price for the Rosenbauer RT fire truck is $900,000, but agencies can customize them.
The LAFD’s electric fire truck has a 360 kW electric powertrain and a 132 kWh battery pack.
The truck can operate for two hours [when it’s no leaking].
The LAFD placed an order for the custom-configured model in February 2020.
The first prototypes of the electric fire truck were on the road in 2019.
A water leak in an EV? Classic!
The onboard water supply, even on pumper trucks, is very limited. At full pumping pressure the onboard supply is expended in minutes.
As a practical matter I would think that the fire company would have to invest in support trucks with generating capacity designed specifically to support the EV pumpers. That’s just plain stupid & inefficient. You don’t want “inefficient” in your emergency vehicles.
The onboard water supply, even on pumper trucks, is very limited. At full pumping pressure the onboard supply is expended in minutes.
As a practical matter I would think that the fire company would have to invest in support trucks with generating capacity designed specifically to support the EV pumpers. That’s just plain stupid & inefficient. You don’t want “inefficient” in your emergency vehicles.
Water and high voltage batteries... High voltage batteries and high heat... What could go wrong?
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