The end and short is they saved ton of fuel costs and reduced their maintenance. Unclear how much spent on electricity more or maybe given solar panels to offset that
Half a decade ago, a small town police force went Tesla...
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Employee Compensation Report: Gateway
Johnson County, BARGERSVILLE CIVIL TOWN.
The police chief makes about $80K a year. I'm not sure about the disparities in pay, but there are several patrol officers listed as making less than $40K.
The article says that the average electricity cost per Tesla is $600 a month compared to maybe $3900 a month for their Dodge Chargers.
I feel like in-town police duty is perfect for a longer range EV. Stop/go traffic. Idling with the AC or heat while sitting on the side of the road looking for speeders. And if it has to jump out in traffic and get someone, they can definitely get moving. Probably good for everything but longer chases.
I imagine a lot less brake jobs too.
Having friends who worked in a police garage when they switched from Crown Victorias to Chargers ... well, I'd probably get banned if I used the exact language ... but Chargers break a lot more and are very expensive to maintain apparently. No rocker arms or oil cooler to fail on a tesla ...
I imagine a lot less brake jobs too.
Having friends who worked in a police garage when they switched from Crown Victorias to Chargers ... well, I'd probably get banned if I used the exact language ... but Chargers break a lot more and are very expensive to maintain apparently. No rocker arms or oil cooler to fail on a tesla ...
Which doesnt include healthcare, pension and other benefit cost to taxpayers. Add 20-25%.Employee Compensation Report: Gateway
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Johnson County, BARGERSVILLE CIVIL TOWN.
The police chief makes about $80K a year. I'm not sure about the disparities in pay, but there are several patrol officers listed as making less than $40K.
Musk hate. In!!!!!!
Fires!!!!!!!!!! Everywhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fires!!!!!!!!!! Everywhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
how many truffles died at the hands of your tacoma shocks sir, i wanted to ask in the other thread. just kidding
I would imagine these police cars spend more gas powering the AC than speed chasing.
There is an advantage to having and electric-powered compressor when there is no engine to idle. Running a gas powered car at idle to run the A/C is massively inefficient. It’s probably not as big an efficiency suck when the engine is otherwise performing useful work.
Annual brake serving.
E tires.....those are not cheap.
Regenerative braking. There are owners who haven't replaced their friction brakes on Teslas for over 50K miles or longer. There's an indicator for when there's regenerative braking (green) and friction braking (gray). I'll rarely see it go gray, and if it's fully warmed up I've had near panic stops where it was only green.
The other thing about driving a Tesla is learning how to control the traction. There might be a desire to get the tires to chirp, but that's really kind of stupid to do so. They're capable of really nice progressive acceleration since it can control power to the tires so well compared to an engine with a transmission.
Aren't tires rated for police work also expensive?
Where I live, the last data I saw on a deputy was abour $17/hr. So that jives.
Most of those corvettes and the like are stolen. They didn't buy them.
I run cop tires on my EV.
no... at least that's not how I read it...
"The Bargersville police department still operates six combustion-powered vehicles in its fleet, which consume $2,900 in gas every month. In comparison, the 13 Teslas that the police department operates cost about $600 per month to charge. “It’s working, it saves a lot of money,” Bertram noted."
the way I read that is
6 ICE cruisers use $2900/mo total for gas
13 Tesla cruisers use $600/mo total for electricity.
for their taxpayers sake, I certainly hope they're not spending almost $3k each month for fuel in EACH ICE cruiser... that would be $208,800/yr just for gasoline for 6 cars... but taking your read of it, the electricty cost would be $93,600 still under half what they spend on gas for twice as many vehicles.
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There is an application for these in small departments, but not practical in busy departments where the cars run nearly 24 hours a day for (3) 8 hour shifts. There would be no time for charging. Buying more vehicles than needed to make up for down time would offset any long term maintenance and fuel savings.
I'd like to see the duty cycles for the gasoline vs. EV. Details are everything with these comparisons. As it is now, this info is useless.
Everything these days breaks a ton more. The Chargers were pretty much hot garbage, most of the Ford stuff we have now has various assorted problems that knock them out of service.
I'm not a CV lover by any stretch, but they were about as reliable as a hammer. There's nothing these days built to deal with patrol use. I can easily see how an EV could save a pile of money for a small department.
