>The force added that the electric vehicles are not authorised to respond to emergency incidents.
>The vehicles are used by officers, staff and volunteers to move within and outside the force area to complete enquiries or travel to other locations.
How does this compare to traditional vehicles running out of fuel and battery?
So they worked in many thousands of other calls…
Like an ICE car never had a battery, alternator or starter pack up on them.
Is that just because nobody uses them? Our electric cars sit unused unless there is no alternative most shifts.
So of 91 cars over 3 years only 2 incidents occurred? And presumably due to inexperienced EV drivers, it’s not hard to not run out of battery on a modern EV – especially with the kind of driving they’d be doing in these which is mostly going to be patrolling, etc.
But no, EVs bad, clearly.
Why not use Tesla?
Only Twice in 3 years is pretty good. How many non electric cars they have breakdown or run out of gas in that time ?
Couldn’t they have just powered them up using their tasers?
That’s how the cartoons woulda fixed it… 🙁
What model are they referring to? It would be helpful in the context of this article to know the kwh of the battery.Almost all modern EVs give plenty of warning of low battery and can continue a good few miles in ‘turtle mode’ after they hit 0%. Running flat in a service vehicle is some pretty irresponsible usage, barring some technical issue.
What a nothing story.
These EVs are a good testing ground, but until there are charging spots on the top of motorway roundabouts and other spots where police like to wait between shouts the batteries likely won’t hold enough charge for a shift, which means officers will either need to RTB and use two cars per shift, or sit at a congested/expensive charging station while on shift.
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It would be interesting to see the results from PHEV cars; I’d expect those to be more useful than a full ICE car.
only twice in 3 years?
I was expecting twice a year atleast.
Was it because the Police thought that charging a car meant putting it under arrest?
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Worth mentioning that:
>The force added that the electric vehicles are not authorised to respond to emergency incidents.
>The vehicles are used by officers, staff and volunteers to move within and outside the force area to complete enquiries or travel to other locations.
How does this compare to traditional vehicles running out of fuel and battery?
So they worked in many thousands of other calls…
Like an ICE car never had a battery, alternator or starter pack up on them.
Is that just because nobody uses them? Our electric cars sit unused unless there is no alternative most shifts.
So of 91 cars over 3 years only 2 incidents occurred? And presumably due to inexperienced EV drivers, it’s not hard to not run out of battery on a modern EV – especially with the kind of driving they’d be doing in these which is mostly going to be patrolling, etc.
But no, EVs bad, clearly.
Why not use Tesla?
Only Twice in 3 years is pretty good. How many non electric cars they have breakdown or run out of gas in that time ?
Couldn’t they have just powered them up using their tasers?
That’s how the cartoons woulda fixed it… 🙁
What model are they referring to? It would be helpful in the context of this article to know the kwh of the battery.Almost all modern EVs give plenty of warning of low battery and can continue a good few miles in ‘turtle mode’ after they hit 0%. Running flat in a service vehicle is some pretty irresponsible usage, barring some technical issue.
What a nothing story.
These EVs are a good testing ground, but until there are charging spots on the top of motorway roundabouts and other spots where police like to wait between shouts the batteries likely won’t hold enough charge for a shift, which means officers will either need to RTB and use two cars per shift, or sit at a congested/expensive charging station while on shift.
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It would be interesting to see the results from PHEV cars; I’d expect those to be more useful than a full ICE car.
only twice in 3 years?
I was expecting twice a year atleast.
Was it because the Police thought that charging a car meant putting it under arrest?