City Of LA Workers Will Be Driving Electric BMWs

[Lee-Lee]

6. I have some serious reservations about an all-electric car for police use

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Particularly for patrol cars as it said they want to do soon.

I know several times when we had big emergencies we had cars running 24-48-72 hours nonstop. The County sent maintenance crews around with a fuel truck to refill those of us who couldn't get to a working gas station. If you have an all electric fleet that kind of surge to get as many patrol cars out and working doesn't work out as they need time and special charging stations. And if they ever see a big earthquake that disrupts the grid there you would have no working patrol cars in short order- you can truck in gasoline for emergency services vehicles easy enough but you can't just swap the batteries on these for one with a fresh charge.

I think a gas or diesel electric hybrid is much better suited for emergency services use at this stage of the technology.