Police Department Saves Thousands Of Dollars Each Month Using Electric Vehicles

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A current news story highlighted how the Bargersville, Indiana Police Division is saving some huge cash by utilizing electrical automobiles as a substitute of gas-powered ones. Electrical motors are extra vitality environment friendly than inner combustion engines, and never by a bit. Electrical energy additionally prices lower than gasoline, and EVs may be charged at evening when the charges are lowest.

Electrical automobiles could make wonderful fleet automobiles as a result of they might function in a neighborhood space primarily or completely the place they will make their runs and return to residence base for normal charging. Though it’s not that widespread in the mean time, some fleet homeowners could get hold of their very own rooftop or cover solar energy programs and cost their electrical automobiles with self-generated electricity.

At CleanTechnicawe’ve beforehand reported on police departments utilizing electrical automobiles efficiently. So as to add yet one more, right here is an interview with Bargersville PD’s Chief of Police, Todd Bertram.

What number of Teslas are in your fleet at present and which of them?

We now have 4 Tesla Mannequin 3’s and 10 Tesla Mannequin Y’s.

Do you could have onsite chargers for all of them?

We now have eight Stage 2 charging stations and one DC quick charger.

Is your fleet all electrics or are there some fuel automobiles too?

We now have a 2023 Ford F-150 Lightning and three different fuel Ford F-150s.

About how a lot does the police division save every month by utilizing electrical automobiles?

Properly, this can be a laborious query: for 3 vehicles in March of 2025 we spent $1,400 and for 14 electrical vehicles we spent $765. So, if we assume we had all fuel vehicles we’d have spent $7,650, with a financial savings of $6,885 each month.

Is the financial savings solely from gasoline financial savings or is there some from more cost effective upkeep and repairs too?

The above numbers are simply from gasoline. We additionally don’t do oil adjustments on 14 of the vehicles — that will be a further financial savings of $1,190 about each 2 months.

Does the police division have some rooftop photo voltaic to cost the EVs or if not, will you get some solar energy?

No, we don’t however that will positive save much more cash sooner or later perhaps.

Are there every other advantages to utilizing the Teslas such because the quietness and quickness in comparison with fuel automobiles?

Quicker turn-around occasions when issues do should be achieved and fewer down time.

Would you ever return to an all-gas automobile fleet?

No means, we would want so as to add one other $100,000 to the tax payers burden and I don’t suppose the council would need to try this.