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Using electric cars as police vehicles has some distinct advantages. Among them are near-silent operation, maximum acceleration from 0 rpm, and a novelty factor that can lead to friendly, beneficial interactions between officers and citizens. Now, the small Maryland city of Hyattsville, a suburb of Washington, D.C., has a 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV electric car as its newest police vehicle. DON'T MISS: Chevy Bolt EV reviewed by BMW i3 driver: electric cars compared Sergeant Richard Hartnett of the Hyattsville City Police Department sent us the photos of the Bolt EV with its newly installed...
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LAPD's unused electric cars gather dust sitting in garage, but why?
Anyone who remembers the epic, metallic-tasting, technicolor smog in the Los Angeles Basin found into the 1990s understands why air quality matters there. While the worst of the uncontrolled tailpipe emissions have now been greatly reduced, and the air is cleaner, the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide...
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Ford Fusion becomes first police pursuit-rated hybrid car
Ford made a big splash last year when it announced it would launch 13 new electrified vehicles within five years. That was widely misreported as 13 new "electric" vehicles, which is to say either battery-electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles—which isn't the case. It includes conventional...
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LA police to buy 100 BMW i3 electric cars for department use
The LAPD will buy 100 BMW i3 electric cars after testing one for a few months.
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Tesla pursuing police cruiser market with Model S: report
Would the Tesla Model S make a good police car?
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Hybrid Police Cars Replacing Crown Vics: No Longer An Anomaly
Toyota claims hybrid police cars are a viable replacement for the old standard, the Ford Crown Victoria.
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The LAPD is getting BMW i3 and Tesla Model S loaner vehicles, and will soon lease 100 battery-electric cars.
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Electric Police Cars? Seattle Uses Nissan Leafs For Traffic Enforcement
Seattle will use 28 Nissan Leaf electric cars for traffic enforcement.
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Armored Electric Chinese Police Patrol Car Is ... Words Fail Us
The Zijing Qingyuan Armored Spherical Cabin Electric Patrol Vehicle is, to say the least, special.
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Ford Adds Tesla-Like Touchscreen (But Smaller) To Police Interceptor: UPDATE
Ford's police cars get a spiffy new, Tesla-like touchscreen.
Stephen Edelstein -
Italy's Crisp Carabinieri Get New Patrol Cars: Tiny Electric Minicars
The Mitsubishi i-MiEV joins Italy's Carabinieri.
Stephen Edelstein -
Electric-Car Charging: 15 Hours In Jail For 5 Cents Of Power
"Opportunity charging" can have serious consequences, as one Atlanta-area Nissan Leaf driver found out recently.
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Ask most people to name a classic cop car and they’ll probably mention the iconic Ford Crown Victoria or perhaps the 1974 Dodge Monaco turned Bluesmobile in the classic film The Blues Brothers. We’ve even seen more unlikely cars like the Dodge Challenger and Lamborghini Gallardo take on police duties, but while fast and flashy cars might give officers a quick getaway from the donut shop, they won’t help lower the precinct’s gas bills. Enter New York City Major Michael Bloomberg. As part of the city’s continuing drive towards a cleaner, greener fleet Bloomberg has...
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2012 Chevrolet Impala Improves Police Fleet Gas Mileage By 3 MPG
As we reported earlier this year, gas mileage is increasingly becoming a concern for not only individuals but corporations and government agencies as well, including most police forces. While the federal government is looking to improve the gas mileage of its fleets by switching to smaller cars and...
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FAIL: U.K. Meter Maid Tickets Electric Car While it Charged
Police traffic and parking control officers have an important job: they help keep traffic flowing in major cities and also ensure that cars are parked legally and safely. But local authorities in the U.K. city of Coventry are under fire after one of its parking enforcement officers ticketed an...
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Video: Really Bad Prius Driver Slams Police Car, Then Tree
For all the grief Toyota Prius hybrid drivers get, you'd think they were some deranged combination of green storm troopers and mentally defective traffic impediments. But every now and then, a Prius driver does do something jaw-droppingly idiotic. Take, for instance, the unidentified (and possibly...
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Ford Hybrids: Tough Enough To Be Police Cars in New York City
As New York City works aggressively to reduce its carbon footprint and cut exhaust emissions, it has encouraged large fleets to switch to hybrids. From utility ConEd to the fleets of yellow cabs, more and more hybrids are showing up on city streets. The latest large fleet to go greener is the New...
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Carbon Cop Cars To Go Green With BMW Clean Diesel Engines
Many European countries use BMW sedans as patrol and pursuit cars. Now, BMW says it will sell more than 240,000 engines to U.S. police-car startup Carbon Motors for that company's cruiser. The big shock? They're diesel engines. Specifically, BMW's 3.0-liter twin-turbo straight-six clean diesel, as...
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Less than a week ago, we told you that hybrid drivers are more likely to get into accidents than non-hybrid drivers. Today, one Connecticut woman has become a mildly amusing example of this puzzling statistic. State police have identified the driver of a Toyota Prius who ran into a utility pole in Ellington, Connecticut as 44-year-old, Susan Gagnon. Gagnon was driving on Route 286 in Ellington at about 1 a.m. on Tuesday night when she struck the pole, knocking out power to over 100 homes. Crews worked for eight hours to restore power to all customers. Gagnon fled on foot, but police found her...
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Japan Considers Adding Noise To Hybrid Vehicles
One of the knocks on hybrid vehicles comes from the vision-impaired community. Many hybrids disengage their internal combustion engines at slow speeds. When a driver slows to a stop or accelerates from a controlled intersection, the vehicle often uses only battery power. If you can't see it, and...
Robert Scardino