California police aren't loving their Tesla cop cars
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California police aren't loving their Tesla cop cars
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Re: California police aren't loving their Tesla cop cars
#2Wouldn't they have known the dimensions of the Teslas before they considered using them? I mean, it's not like they have had zero prior experience on what makes good police cars?!
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#3> and note that in a firefight, police are taught to hide behind a car’s engine block. With EVs, that’s not an option.
Definitely not an issue I'd ever considered with EVs.
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#4Article is pretty light on content, and links to something quite more substantial:
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/california-switch-ele...
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#5One wonders what the point of this article is besides “we fucked up by choosing something that we should have known did not fit the constraints we had”.
Re: California police aren't loving their Tesla cop cars
#6Wouldn't they have known the dimensions of the Teslas before they considered using them? I mean, it's not like they have had zero prior experience on what makes good police cars?!
I think there is a disconnect here between the decision makers and the experts in the Police Garage.
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#7> and note that in a firefight, police are taught to hide behind a car’s engine block. With EVs, that’s not an option. Definitely not an issue I'd ever considered with EVs.
It's not that it's not even an option. Puncture that battery and the raging inferno makes the situation 1000x worse.
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#8EVs are still on the early adopter phase. Things will get better, but I won't be buying one for the foreseeable.
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#9> say a reliance on unsecured charging stations makes officers vulnerable when it comes to transporting suspects long distances; and note that in a firefight, police are taught to hide behind a car’s engine block
I am a diehard EV proponent, but it's important to admit that there are places where EVs are not the right solution. Especially in vehicles which take part in emergency response, the high energy density of fossil fuels is absolutely a benefit.
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#10this seems like they haven't done their research at all - i find it surprising that they even thought a Model 3 would be a good police vehicle considering its dimensions.
perhaps a better alternative is picking one of the many other EVs that are based on a ICE framework, which i presume would be much easier to modify as required?