The cars are part of a multimillion-dollar taxpayer funded project to help the LAPD go green.
But our investigation of department records found some electric cars are sitting unused with only a few hundred miles on them, and with hidden cameras, we found others are allegedly being misused. […]
But sources say some personnel are reluctant to use the electric cars because they can only go 80-100 miles on a charge.
And the mileage logs we obtained seem to back that up.
Then, they followed a few on hidden camera. Oops.
I have been told stories by my father, about people who put an extra fuel tank on their grain truck (depression era), and stole grain. If the farmer chased you, you simply drove till they were out of gas.
What size fuel tank do you need to outlast an electric? Cause they ain’t gonna try pit maneuvers in a 6 figure vehicle. Then again, it’s not their money…
It’s not true virtue signalling unless it’s with other people’s money
And she’s in charge of “Fiscal Operations”. LOL!
How the hell are electric cars “good” for the environment. It takes massive mining for rare minerals, miles of copper wire, and massive amounts of electricity supplied by power plants, either gas, water or coal to charge them. The law of diminishing returns is at play here.
This is an OUTRAGE!!! The LAPD should take the bus … like the rest of us
Imagine the high pursuit with the cops slowing down from 120 to 0 as the batteries polarized and discharged. Keystone Baby!
Performance for pursuits is irrelevant. It is pretty obvious in the video, especially when looking at the interior through open doors, they aren’t fitted out as patrol cars. They are for administrative use – you know, office staff going out for lunch or to visit their kids at school, get a manicure, etc. The usual stuff a large metropolitan police force needs several hundred cars for.
You can’t outrun radios. Depression era cops likely didn’t have any in their cars.
And let’s not forget that the LAPD has helicopters, just like any police force that could blow $10 million USD on cars just for the sake of image does.
(for example where I live, the police would rather spend that $10M on the latest machine guns and body armor)
For argument’s sake(different argument) let’s pretend that police cars take damage a little like they do in the movies or TV.
How expensive is it if the battery pack gets damaged? Is that more expensive than a gasoline car fix?
And of course a Chevrolet Volt wasn’t good enough for their virtue signalling. It had to be BMW.
BMW hires better salespeople.
Considering how Hollywood is focused on re-making classic movies, can you imagine how the “updated” and “new and improved” versions of films such as Bullitt or The French Connection would be like? Car chases using electric vehicles? Car chases using electric vehicles that have batteries with limited charge?
Considering how Hollywood seems to support anybody but the police, I suppose those re-makes will have the bad guys in those chases get away as they, obviously, will be the heroes.
I’m glad Chrysler and AM didn’t get the money. They had bad business models that should have dissolved after 2007/2008 sales period. You know, like
Instead, these bad business models were propped up with citizen tax dollars U.S./Canada.
Do I wish FORD had made an electric car? No. But rumors have it that FORD might, that FORD has an $11 Billion war chest to do it with by selling to people what people wanted to buy for the last decade.(smart, eh? No I don’t own a FORD)
Anyway, battery cars don’t work so good when it’s below minus 20C for weeks on end.
I have a block heater. My gas tank maintains the same energy reserve when it’s cold even if I don’t drive it for a week. Then I plug my car in for an hour or 2 before driving to warm the oil. Heating the interior of my car is a benefit of syphoning heat off of the combustion process. Works wonderfully well. In a blizzard, it would be a life saver.
You’re assuming that governments give a rat’s behind about effectiveness and/or efficiency and/or cost-benefit and/or ROI.
They don’t.
What they care about is image and votes (especially for the elected ones), both in their quest to gain and keep power, influence, wealth, etc.
And there’s an even better, and profitable scam for the plug-in cars. You install a rather powerful computer in the car, programmed to do bit-coin mining. You set the computer to run while you plug it in at one of those “free” charging stations, and voila! you are mining bit-coins for free! Or at least, you aren’t the one paying for the electricity that runs the bit-coin mining engine.
That’s a gem Kate. Well done, and thanks!
heh, captcha is being a smart alec again, “school comforama”, (re)shaping school.
And yet, no heads will roll.
I wonder which LA administrative personnel are now driving around in heavily discounted BMW 7 series sedans.
OT but Kevin states:
“I have been told stories by my father, about people who put an extra fuel tank on their grain truck (depression era), and stole grain. If the farmer chased you, you simply drove till they were out of gas”
That may have happened but not in the thirties in western Canada. The good times in agriculture were a distant memory throughout the thirties. There was no money to buy anything much less gasoline so gas was used sparingly. Any grain that was marketed was hauled to town by horse and wagon or if snow covered the ground horses with the grain box mounted on a sleigh. Very little grain moved by gasoline powered trucks in those days.
Apropos of nothing, Edmonton’s police force (second most corrupt in the country after Windsor!) gets into a car crash every 2-3 days…
Again OT but thinking of the thirties, wouldn’t those days be halcyon days for the greentards?
Fossil fuel use was stagnant or declining, 25% unemployment and business was flat on its back and yet some of the hottest driest weather in 100 years happened in the thirties. Logically, one would think government had better start telling us CO2 causes cooling not heating of the planet.
Oh wait, that meme has been tried before.
You know what I love? All that hidden camera stuff, and NOBODY said a thing about who got the leasing contract for the cars, what that person’s relationship to the LAPD was, who in the leadership got that deal rolling, what the car-lease policy was and why, nothing.
Giving the appearance of an investigation without actually investigating anything. Nice!
“taxpayer funded”.
keep an eye out for that phrase showing up a LOT more as the middle class joins the endangered species.
so then where the bejeezuz do the TAXES come from when the middle class no longer exists?
‘taxpayer funded’ then becomes CODE for DEFICIT FUNDED. ie da gubbamint paying for everything on a credit card.
watch what happens to the precious ‘taxpayer funded’ mantra when THAT ‘credit limit’ gets slammed into, er, when that phrase gets an immobilized electric car pushed into it.