The Austrian police are testing a total of 23 electric cars in four federal provinces for their suitability in police service. The pilot project will start in the fourth quarter of 2023, but the 20 police stations in Salzburg, Lower Austria, Vienna and Tyrol have already taken delivery of the electric cars.
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At the leading European trade fair for rescue and mobility RETTmobil, currently taking place in Germany, there are also a number of purely electric emergency vehicles on display – from the ID. Buzz as an emergency ambulance to the Mercedes eCitan with an extension for rescue services.
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The police of South Pasadena, California, is set to run a fully electric fleet by early next year and says it was the first city in the US to do so. The city will lease 20 Teslas through Enterprise to perform patrol duties, administration, and detective work.
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The police in the West Midlands region of England want to procure 68 new electric vehicles by the end of this year. The West Midlands Police already has 40 electric cars and 50 charging points.
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There’s a police helicopter standing at the Tesla Supercharger in a picture on Twitter. It is not a case of extreme ICEing or vandalism but a campaign of a higher order.
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The Gloucestershire Constabulary has the UK’s largest electric patrol car fleet, with 21 per cent of its 435 vehicles being EVs, i.e. 66 Nissan Leafs and nine Nissan NV200 vans. However, the new Commissioner for Gloucestershire, Chris Nelson, has now sounded the alarm.
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While Giga Berlin is finally churning out Tesla EVs made in Germany, the new cars may not be free to go everywhere. The head of security for Berlin’s police has attempted to issue a ban for any Tesla coming near police stations and headquarters since he considers the cars a threat to data security.
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The French police have opted for a semi-electric approach. Peugeot has delivered nearly 400 plug-in hybrid cars, namely the Peugeot 3008, to the Ministry of the Interior’s Gendarmerie Nationale. The PHEVs come screen-printed and join several unmarked vehicles ordered in 2020.
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Together with partners, Citroën wants to transform the Greek island of Halki, located in the south-eastern Aegean Sea, into an emission-free, energy-autonomous eco-island. In the medium term, every vehicle on Halki is to be replaced by an electric car.
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At the Milipol trade show in Paris, BMW Motorrad put a police version of its CE 04 electric scooter on display for the first time. It is not just an eye-catcher however but will join the company’s existing range of police motorcycles with combustion engines.
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Ford has unveiled a Mustang Mach-E police concept at the Emergency Services Show in Birmingham, following several requests from forces around the country to evaluate the electric SUV. Seven UK forces have either tested the fully electric patrol car or have inquired about the specially-built prototype.
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The Lower Saxony state police have ordered a total of 215 VW ID.3 as emergency vehicles. In addition, the police will add another 175 PHEV models of the Passat to their existing fleet of 160 VW Passat GTE.
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Škoda is adding lower-emission options for emergency services with a plug-in hybrid Octavia vRS iV, next to the Octavia iV and Superb iV. The three hybrid vehicles are designed to suit the needs of ambulance, fire and rescue, as well as police services.
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Police Scotland has just awarded BP Chargemaster a contract worth up to £21 million to supply charging infrastructure for electric vehicles at its properties. An order for electric cars has also been placed with Hyundai UK.
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Peugeot is seeing growing demand from UK Police and Fire services for electrified vehicles. The French company said, 13 per cent of the cars ordered were all-electric with the e-208 being among the bestsellers to serve in British emergency services.
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The Gloucestershire Constabulary is putting the country’s largest police fleet of electric cars to new tactical use. On Twitter, they described their latest ops against illegal poachers with the electric vehicles being central to their strategy.
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German police recently confiscated a heavily-modified BMW i8 after the driver of the hybrid super sports car posted a video of himself doing 200 kph on a country road.
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Britain’s largest electric police fleet has launched in the county of Gloucestershire in the southwest of England. The fleet will belong to the Gloucestershire police force and will comprise of 75 electric vehicles from Nissan, 66 of which are Leaf and nine e-NV200s.
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In the German town of Mettmann, a Tesla driver charged his car via a socket in a construction site toilet. The driver showed a lot of chutzpah– the construction site was for a new police building, right next to an existing police building.
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Mercedes-Benz is presenting the EQC, GLC F-Cell and the E 300 de in police livery at the General Police Equipment Exhibition & Conference (GPEC) in Frankfurt am Main.
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The Hamburg police have received the first seven of a total of 16 radio patrol cars with electric drive. They are the Opel Ampera-e. According to the police, the electric fleet will be used mainly for traffic surveillance as part of the local presence.
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To date, Tesla has already tallied up at least 250,000 reservations for the Tesla Cybertruck. The fully-electric pickup truck is popular among police forces with reservations from the local police force in Ciudad Valles, Mexico; the Kansas Highway Patrol in the US; and the Dubai police force in the UAE.
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The Chicago Police Department has ordered 200 Ford Police Interceptor Utility Hybrid vehicles. So far, law enforcement agencies across America from New England to Southern California have ordered 3,700-plus units of the hybrid vehicle, marking 19% of current orders.
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In an effort to make streets a little safer, 26 people were booked in Copenhagen over the last few days for operating electric scooters with a blood-alcohol level above the limit, while four others were found to be under the influence of drugs.
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The cantonal police of St. Gallen is relying on the all-electric Hyundai Kona. Five of the BEVs are to be added to the fleet as patrol cars, and eight will serve as civilian cars. Over the next one and a half years, another 15 electric cars will follow.
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A driver of a Tesla Model 3 was stopped by police, but not because the officer was curious to see the car. Instead it was to inform the driver that the use of computers when driving is prohibited and pointed to the large display – the one that makes the Tesla dashboard.
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The automobile manufacturer Ford has asked the US government about providing police cars with an off-switch for the legally mandatory EV noise generators.
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The man known as the Brampton Batman, who has perfected both the bat-suit and a street-legal bat-mobile from his own designs, was pulled over by Ontario police.
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The Los Angeles Police Department has had a quirky addition to their fleet of patrol vehicles as they acquire 20 electric bikes. They have been specifically designed for the force and assist officers up to a speed of 28 mph (45 kph).
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Ford has launched their Ford Police Interceptor Utility in the States. It is the first pursuit-rated hybrid SUV to ever make it onto the force. It is said to offer officers more speed and higher powers as well as some special police features.
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