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UK Spends $2 Million on Electric Cop Cars, Discovers They're Useless for Pursuit
westernjournal.com ^ | 12/26/2019 | Jared Harris

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.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: automotive; bmw; brexit; brexitparty; europe; fud; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; jaredharris; nigelfarage; nissan; police; probablyfullofbs; solarpowered; tesla; unitedkingdom
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1 posted on 12/28/2019 11:37:10 AM PST by rktman
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But the important thing is that somebody’s brother-in-law sold a whole bunch of cars.


2 posted on 12/28/2019 11:38:07 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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Leftists and RATS are dumber than freakin’ dirt.


3 posted on 12/28/2019 11:40:06 AM PST by dforest (Just shut up Obama. Maybe everyone should just shut up. Particularly Mutt Romney)
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To: rktman

Coal and or hydro powered cars just aren’t ready for real life situations.


4 posted on 12/28/2019 11:40:43 AM PST by Parmy
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To: rktman

Duh. Common sense isn’t common anymore.


5 posted on 12/28/2019 11:41:07 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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e-cars useless for pursuit AND useless for patrolling ...


6 posted on 12/28/2019 11:44:52 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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2 million dollars. 400 unusable cars Idiots.


7 posted on 12/28/2019 11:45:14 AM PST by gibsonguy
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Hundreds of cars purchased at the cost of nearly $2M? So roughly $10,000 a piece? Something very wrong here ...


8 posted on 12/28/2019 11:46:12 AM PST by SFConservative
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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.

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).

9 posted on 12/28/2019 11:46:27 AM PST by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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Politically correct police chiefs are generally worthless.


10 posted on 12/28/2019 11:47:13 AM PST by txrefugee
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...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!"

11 posted on 12/28/2019 11:53:24 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Actually, “only” $5,000 :)!


12 posted on 12/28/2019 11:54:18 AM PST by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement!)
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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.


13 posted on 12/28/2019 11:56:08 AM PST by alloysteel (Very willful ignorance and pretense at moral authority are both roadblocks to honest dialogue.)
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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.


14 posted on 12/28/2019 11:56:54 AM PST by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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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.


15 posted on 12/28/2019 11:58:31 AM PST by I want the USA back (If free speech is taken away, dumb and silent we are led, like sheep to the slaughter: G Washington)
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But, but, but, they can go from 0-60 in 2 seconds and have a 300 mile range......


16 posted on 12/28/2019 12:00:22 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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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.


17 posted on 12/28/2019 12:01:52 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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Happens in the US:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/tesla-police-vehicle-ran-power-car-chase-california/story?id=65878312


18 posted on 12/28/2019 12:03:03 PM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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But the important thing is that somebody’s brother-in-law sold a whole bunch of cars.

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.

19 posted on 12/28/2019 12:03:12 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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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.


20 posted on 12/28/2019 12:03:57 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Epstein didn't kill himself on purpose, it was an accident.)
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