This is exactly what the Ottawa police force needs.
Express- Electric police cars are ‘running out of puff’ and causing ‘lots of problems’
ELECTRIC police cars are running out of charge when responding to emergencies because the sirens and blue lights drain the batteries, according to a Police and Crime Commissioner.
Gloucester Constabulary has the largest full electric fleet in the UK, with 21 percent of their 435 vehicles being electric. Chris Nelson, Conservative Police and Crime Commissioner for Gloucester, said officers who were driving the electric vehicles had difficult experiences finding chargers in the county.
He said the vehicles using their lights, radio and sirens were in danger of “running out of puff”.
I hope the Left here in the USA don’t hear about this. Aside from the global warming mythology, they’ll do anything to hinder the police.
So, no car chases like in movies like Bullitt or The Seven-Ups then……
WA state no longer allows car chases. Bad guys are loving it
Where are Fred Flintstone & Barney Rubble – they had the solution ages ago.
Nope. Tough guy, Robert De Niro would never chase down ‘the case’ in Ronin … it would be sold to ‘The Russians’
That’s quite the “puff piece”!
The Brits always have an interesting choice of words at their disposal.
I love Brit colloquialisms … but “puff”? For an electric car? They’ve got no puff … isn’t that the whole idea?
The abbreviation for picofarad is pF and it’s often pronounced as “puff”.
However … say puff out loud … and people think smoking … or smoke … as in “we have a new Pope! See the puffs of smoke?”
Pronounce it slightly different and people might think you’re organizing a “pride” parade.
These are probably the same morons who want to buy electric battle tanks.
electric airliners are even MORE insane …
They’ll get solar powered dirigibles instead of electric airplanes.
Great use of resources. Cops will spend half their time waiting at chargers.
Isn’t that a plus?
Put the chargers at the donut shops.
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Future police cruiser:
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I’m not seeing a down side.
They’ll just trample us with horses then.
Don’t give the Ottawa cops any ideas – They’ll likely use them to charge up their cattle prods. Y’know, for those days when you need information and forced confessions straight away.
There are start-up companies out there messing around with tiny nuclear power plants. And, when I say tiny, I mean about the size of a shoebox. Their ambition is to put these things in cars and on jets.
Personally, I put this into the category of “of course, we COULD do that….but SHOULD we?”
As an aside. I standard Electric Chair (used for killing) puts out about 2000 volts. These little shoebox gems don’t even start their chain action until they hit 600,000 volts. I see too many people who would keep losing their shoes if someone didn’t invent Velcro. I don’t want them driving around in a nuclear powered car.
Not the cops, but OCTranspo wants to convert it’s entire fleet to electric by 2030.
The cops? They’ll be the only ones left driving ICE’s. Everyone else will be stuck with EV’s in their driveways, unable to get anywhere because of electric shortages. If you’re lucky enough to get a stable electric supply, then expect our electricity to be just as expensive as our gas is today. If you doubt me, just take a look at your electric bill if you live in Ontario. Now imagine what that bill will look like if you have to charge your car every night.
“They’re not smart enough to tell us what to do.”
But they’ll do so anyway, and Canadians will say, “Yes, sir. How high, sir?” Because Canadians are cowardly rabbits.
The Olympics of the incompetents.
We win in the end.
And people criticize me for using the word stupid a lot. Now what would all our brilliant commenters call that?
Hey, no problem. All they have to do is tow a little trailer with a gas powered generator. Battery runs down, stop, fire up the generator and recharge. They’ll still get there eventually.
Keystone Cops couldn’t write a better plot for one of their episodes, skits,….things
People in government are so ignorant. There’s no cost/benefit analysis ever, no due diligence on decisions like these. They don’t know how to negotiate with the service providers in order to test the claims the sales people make. It’s frustrating. It’s as if twelve-year-olds are in charge of tax dollars. Or it’s kick backs. Maybe both.
There is always a certain amount of admin running around to do within the police e.g. delivering sommonses, going to interviews, moving prisoners, getting the donuts. This is were EVs might fill a niche. Putting them in front line policing is just plain stupid.