Article is pretty light on content, and links to something quite more substantial: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/california-switch-ele...
that's a much better link.
the F150 Lightning has much more going for it as a police EV.
California police aren't loving their Tesla cop cars
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#12> 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.
Reminder: there are several different EV battery chemistries that would all react differently under this scenario.
Here is an example of someone drilling into a solar LFP battery: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D8xNjz73p80
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#13One 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”.
EV is an election issue right now for swing states. So might be a hot topic.
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#14Wouldn'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.
Classic gov’t/big Corp purchasing.
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#15> 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 really an issue with EV's - if this was a requirement I'm sure they could have modified parts of the car to provide protection.
The issue seems to be that the purchase was poorly thought out and didn't think about all the requirements of a police car.
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#16this 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?
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#17US election bullshit article
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#18this 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?
The article says they are using Model Ys
Re: California police aren't loving their Tesla cop cars
#19this 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?
I saw a video, that discussed Ford Fusions, as cop cars.
It made a lot of sense.
Not 100% electric, but they get serious mileage. I used to drive one, and it got about 45 MPG, with pretty good performance.
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#20Wouldn'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.
At multiple levels too. Push to switch to EV's regardless of whether suitable vehicles were available, then an extremely bad choice of actual vehicles to buy