Vancouver’s all-electric vehicle was unveiled Dec. 4, with VFRS Chief Karen Fry referring to it as a “reinvention of the fire truck.”
The department said the truck is smaller and more maneuverable than a traditional truck, and can go 100 kilometres on a single charge.
At a cost of $1.8 million, it’s $300,000 to $500,000 more than a new diesel engine, but Fry said there are huge environmental and health benefits to an electric truck, as diesel fumes are a known carcinogen.
A fire truck that can put out itself! We live in magical times…
And therefore start itself on fire again due to the lithium batteries.
Beat me to it! LOL
How many firemen were electricuted first before they realized that could be a huge problem?
Pickle?
Would you like one?
Who will Rescue the Rescue unit? Ohhhh … in addition to the extra $500,000.00 for the intermittent electric Fire Truck … they have to purchase a BACKUP diesel powered Fire Truck at a cost of $2.5mm
Not to worry, though … because we’re saving the children from cancer (it’s estimated)
ALL THESE EV’S ARE A JOKE…………..what a waste of TAX PAYER’S $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Seems to me many components of smoke from a fire are carcinogenic and probably much more so than diesel exhaust. The risk from diesel exhaust is comparatively trivial. But then it’s important to pursue the trivial to justify spending $500K more on the latest toy.
The particle traps on new diesel vehicles render the argument moot, compared to fire smoke.
Just another green con job.
A ‘Soot’ point?!
Distant turd relative no doubt.
Turd cousin twice removed?
Removed from which hole?
Wow…almost 62 miles with one charge! Let’s hope there’s not more than one fire per day, or that they have to pump for more than an hour on their once daily trip.
Yeah…keep it in repairs.
That’s a good point. Rather like the electric busses which will need to provide heat in winter, reducing range, this truck will not have diesel engines to power the water pumps.
Yup, and I’ve seen trucks on scene pumping for well over 8 hours. I know that this toy would die after 1 hour of suppression duties.
Just tow a diesel generator. Then you got power all day lon… oh wait…
“Wow…almost 62 miles with one charge! Let’s hope there’s not more than one fire per day, or that they have to pump for more than an hour on their once daily trip.”
For every actual fire call they get there are probably 20 medical calls…but the same problem applies: sometimes they don’t even get back from one call before they get another.
The manufacturer touts it as a “game changer”.
They aren’t lying.
They can never admit that they are financial fools.
They don’t look at the money as the people’s money. It’s government money that magically appears in their budgets.
We keep electing these elite low life jerks and then are surprised that they act like jerks.
The masses are asses.
“ They don’t look at the money as the people’s money. It’s government money that magically appears in their budgets.”
Exactly right. The best is when they issue “grants”. The pomposity of this term when it is OUR money to begin with! And then they expect you to be so eternally grateful, like it was THEIR money all along. The nerve.
The Stupid! IT BURNS!
Quite literally…
What was I told as a kid? Don’t play with electricity near water 🙂
” …smaller and more maneuverable than a traditional truck …”
A common feature of toys.
Give it a couple of years and fire companies will consist of only black, handicapped, non-documented lesbians carrying a bucket of water and their AI Fire chief.
100 kms… yeah right. You can go 100 kms OR pump water on a fire.. not both.
A fire truck that leaks water. Only a government could order one of those.
I’ve had enough trouble trying to keep water away from the electrics of an ICE vehicle. Just don’t want to think about throwing a giant battery into the mix. Or bathtub.
They’ll probably put it in a suburban station where they get one call a shift and its for a cat in a tree.
Good. I think Vancouver and Toronto should replace all their pumper trucks with these things.
“VFRS Chief Karen Fry”
Are half the fires attended to by VFRS started by women ?
Life Follows Art dept.
YMCA – Village People
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9OO0S5w2k
Well, that fire chief is a pretty vocal Fry, isn’t she?
It will be back in service for the gay pride parade, thats all it is good for virtue signalling.
“The department said the truck is smaller and more maneuverable than a traditional truck, and can go 100 kilometres on a single charge.”
Did you know it has a 3.0 Liter 300HP 6 Cylinder BMW Clean Diesel Engine, to back up the 132kWh batteries?
Or did the Vancouver fire department not order that as part of the vehicle load-out?
A perfect “Fire truck” for BC.
Portable fire.
‘Combustion time?
Unknown.
A bit like BC Ferries “All Electric” Boats..anyone seen them in action,since the grand announcement?
Insufficient battery capacity to make one crossing,then the onboard diesel genset consumes more fuel,than an entire crossing by the diesel ferry..Which has a higher actual capacity..
Maths is hard.
The brain-dead retired PhD holders living in downtown Vancouver are getting what they demanded. Good . And. Hard.
Qualifications: BS, MS, PhD
AKA: Bull Shit, More Shit, Pilled high and Deep.
100 km on a charge. So if it goes across the greater Vancouver area it will not make it back to the Fire Hall. How long can it pump water, if it can, can it raise a ladder, what a useless waste of money.