Why do police departments limit themselves to big SUVs and Dodge Chargers? I ask cops to ponder some unconventional alternatives.
Where I live, the police drive some heavy-duty machinery. There's the odd Ford Taurus hanging in there, but mainly it's Chevy Tahoes, Dodge Durangos, and Ford Explorers, with a healthy smattering of.
But even if you put a premium on speed, cops could do a lot better than a Durango—and for less money. My town budgets $58,000 per police car and is buying four this year. A Ford Escape ST-Line Select costs $36,535. Figure $5000 for lights and graphics, and the town could save almost $66,000 on those four vehicles. Divvied up, that's about $2000 per cop on the payroll, and the taxpayers would fuel cars that get 26 mpg instead of a Tahoe's 17 mpg or an Explorer's 20 mpg.
So, clearly, I am a genius, and everybody should love this plan, but I have to admit that the fuel savings aren't as dramatic as I'd hoped. Gaining even 10 mpg doesn't make much difference in a municipal budget. But how about buying no fuel at all? Now we're talking! Would police ever embrace electric patrol cars, though? To find out, I had another local cop drive an EV.
Oh, and for speed? He pulls to a stop and presses the GT button on the Kia's steering wheel; we're doing 60 mph practically before either of us can even remark on how quickly that happened. Heavy and solid, powerful, great to drive all day—it turns out EVs make inherently good police cars.
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