Posted on 12/28/2019 11:37:10 AM PST by rktman
The United Kingdom’s experiment with electric police vehicles has seemingly ended in failure after the cars have been revealed to be practically useless for crucial law enforcement activities.
As the U.K. Daily Mail reported, hundreds of the vehicles have been purchased across the country by different police forces.
The total cost of the green vehicles is almost £1.5 million — nearly $2 million in American currency.
While electric cars have their merits, the technology simply isn’t there for the vehicles to serve as regular parts of police fleets. Despite this, U.K. police forces have fielded over 400 of the green machines.
The cars come from different manufacturers, including BMW and Nissan.
The vehicles’ range is a central issue as well.
The battery reserves of the cars, which already take an inconveniently long time to charge, can’t even make it through a single shift without the need to be plugged back in.
(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...
But the important thing is that somebody’s brother-in-law sold a whole bunch of cars.
Leftists and RATS are dumber than freakin’ dirt.
Coal and or hydro powered cars just aren’t ready for real life situations.
Duh. Common sense isn’t common anymore.
e-cars useless for pursuit AND useless for patrolling ...
2 million dollars. 400 unusable cars Idiots.
Hundreds of cars purchased at the cost of nearly $2M? So roughly $10,000 a piece? Something very wrong here ...
They should do like the cops in my town do - find places to hide for their shift and just sit on their butts (I guess they would still run the battery down playing the radio).
Politically correct police chiefs are generally worthless.
...BMW and Nissan.
I'd guess that one other problem is that, instead of charging the cars when they need to be charged, the teadrinkers have a required time of the day during which the cars shall be charged, creating a backlog of uncharged vehicles. "Our bus drivers can't possibly keep their timetables if they're required to stop and pick up passengers!"
Actually, “only” $5,000 :)!
Oops....
Until there is a FAR more reliable way to either generate electricity on-board and on demand than anything now in use, or a vast quantum leap in technology that makes it possible to store HUGE amounts of electric charge and still maintain a controlled release of that charge, electricity for propulsion of any kind of transportation vehicle is only a one-trick pony, and nowhere near being a replacement for various kinds of hydrocarbon-fueled engines.
Sorry, there NO hydrogen mines now in production. And besides, on-board storage of hydrogen for vehicles is still a pretty dicey proposition.
Range is one of the primary differentiators among electric vehicles. No one thought to check what typical patrols went through before purchasing the vehicles? I find that hard to believe.
HA HA HA! They could have avoided that by reading the postings here at Free Republic!
Any idiot knows that a gasoline-powered car can beat a puny electric car.
But, but, but, they can go from 0-60 in 2 seconds and have a 300 mile range......
The Clown Car might be for sale, shortly...although it’s always running out of gas. ‘Rats and their enablers try hard to push it.
Happens in the US:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/tesla-police-vehicle-ran-power-car-chase-california/story?id=65878312
BINGO! How hard would it have been to get a couple of loaners for the manufacturers to put them through their paces for a week or two and figure this out before placing the order? But, if they had done that, somebody's BIL would have been out in the cold.
Hopefully Americans would be smart enough to try a pilot program before ordering more than one such car. I can’t believe they were dumb enough to order them without manual headlights.
Maybe they could work for parking meter maids.
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