Electric police cars in the UK are struggling to reach crime scenes and emergencies without running out of power. They need power for sirens, lights and to run the thing. The EV isn’t cutting it.
Officers in rural areas cannot find charging points on patrol and are having to switch to petrol or diesel vehicles, The UK Sun reported.
“The design options available for electric vehicles for operational uses are not perhaps as advanced as I would like them to be.
“So, let’s put it like this, I’m cautious about going any further down that road at this stage.
“If an officer is out on a road traffic accident and his lights are on, his radio is on, his heater is on, I would not want him to run out of power simply because he is in an electric car.”
Average EV range being 300 miles and full charge rate of 4 hrs. equals a trip of 1400 miles taking 40 + hrs. When the same trip can be made in 23 hrs. So you’re looking at making the trip in a week in your EV when you can make the same trip in a day and a half in… Read more »
Two driver can make the trip in under a day!
EV technology is not ready for prime time and won’t be for at least 25 years.
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Romans 1:21 . . This is what happens when you think you’re smarter than God . . . and worship creation rather than the Creator. . .thinking up foolish ideas.
And your comment has what to do with electric vehicles?
Is it ethical to purchase a lithium battery powered EV? “Each mine usually consists of thirty-five to forty humongous 797 Caterpillar haul trucks along with hundreds of other large equipment,” he writes. “Each 797 uses around half a million gallons of diesel a year. So, with an inventory of just thirty-five the haul trucks alone are using 17.5 million gallons… Read more »