California police aren't loving their Tesla cop cars

wakawaka28 says >"...the alternative is to likely get shot through the vehicle or get shot in the back running away..."I beg to differ: odds are very much against getting hit at all while fleeing, hiding, or even while staying and doing nothing!. Why?

1. The world is BIG, bullets are small and- there's lots of room to run and/or hide. Furthermore:

2. Few can shoot a firearm,

- fewer can shoot accurately,

- fewer still can shoot moving objects,

- fewer still can shoot a fleeing person and

- next to none can kill/disable a fleeing person.

Sorry to burst your bubble, Deadeye. Do the math!8-))

wakawaka28 says >"...Summary: You don't have a clue what you are talking about. The cops, many of whom are combat veterans on top of their police training, DO understand the threats."The average police officer can expect to serve out his entire career w/o having to draw his service revolver in self defense. I am fairly certain that few police officers/veterans understand probability in the real world. But they are good men (mostly) and women and a (somewhat selected) cross-section of society. They, for the most part, pay attention to where they are directed.

- Yes, I did date myself by my use of the term "service revolver" instead of the better "sidearm", etc.

- My original post was not limited to handguns. I used the term "firearm", which includes all modern guns (rifles, shotguns, pistols, etc.). [Perhaps English is not your native language?]

- I do prefer ICE to EV. Not for any additional protection from the roving bands of 50-(or 500)-round-carrying Deadeye Dick hombres that wakawaka28 ndoubtedly encounters in his paranoid patrols but b/c I'm more familiar with ICEs.

wakawaka28 says >"getting hit by one of 10 to 50 bullets fired at them because probability is on their side"Yeah, this happens all the time! Why, just the other day I was walking my dog past wakawaka28's house and, before I could scoop the poop, wakawaka28 jumped out with an AR-15 and (accidentally I'm sure) emptied a magazine into his front lawn and neighborhood. Luckily it was wakawaka28 (who, like most shooters, can't shoot worth a doggy bag full) and his firearm jammed twice, so nothing of value was hit (at least, AFAIK). After I lit my second cigarette, I loaned wakawaka28 my walking stick extension so he could ram it down the barrel and clear the jam. [I wanted to suggest that he ram it somewhere else but I was standing too close and knew that, for once, probability was not in my favor.]

Firearms are better than ever these days but

- probability still holds and

- statistics still prove that

Firearms can be deadly, but firearms encounters aren't nearly as deadly as many, if not most people imagine.

Takeaway: don't be scared by fearmongers!8-))

No, the noisy part is actively cooling a ton of batteries confined to a crammed metal box without disturbing neighbors and keeping within the legal noise limits, which is often a very low boundary in highly populated areas for obvious but inconvenient reasons.

Rapidly discharging a ton of batteries produces a lot of heat.

Frequently overheating batteries will make them degrade more quickly.

This quickly ruins the value proposition when TCO depends on so many things (physical design of EV charger and its ventilation, algorithmic design of battery management system, and electrochemical design of cells).

> If fast service is required it will have to come down to battery exchanges, or else exchanging whole cars

Have you looked outside?

That's not how the world currently works.

All companies that try to hotswap batteries inside cars are miserable.

Real fast-chargers and very fast-charging (800V) cars actually exist.

But yeah, besides a lacking charger infrastructure, adding range anxiety to patrolling officers must be the major dealbreaker.