I think she was much hotter back in that movie than later on.
Tesla police car runs out of battery during chase
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Hard pass!!!
lol
Cool.
And to think I bitched when my local department bought a 2014 Denali, 2015 Durango, 2016 Tahoe, 2017 Tahoe, and now they have a 2019 f150 and the 2017 Tahoe...yes my town is so small he only have 2 cop cars lol
Right now the smarter crim's in Tesla police car districts are planning their crimes at the end of a shift, when cars are generally low on battery. Like a gun free zone, they now know when they're most likely to outlast a high speed chase. Except now it's pretty likely that ALL cars chasing them are low on power.
They forgot to mention the other 99 times the Tesla was so quiet yet quick that the guilty perp bastards didn't even get their own vehicles (dirty, loud pos) fired up before the criminals were face down and cuffed.
It should be against the law to run from the police. Problem solved.
Finally, a man with some common sense. Great suggestion. 100% agree.
If only elected officials could be forced to watch this thread!
I was curious about the idling thing, from research it seems to depend on how cold it is outside and how hard you are running the heater. The AC doesn't use nearly as much power.
From a full charge with the theoretical max output of the heater, a 100D should "idle" for about 15 hours. But I guess the heaters don't really run like that, they taper themselves off.
A few random comments mentioned a day to a day and a half. One guy said he left his car for 7 hours with the climate set at 75 on the interior while it was snowing and lost 20-50 miles (he couldn't remember but he said it wasn't much).
Doing a little digging, a typical city car will drive 50-100 miles per shift with 3-5 hours of idle time, a highway patrol car will do 100-300 miles per shift.
I don't know what the electrical demand is for the radio, lights, computer, and camera on a police car but they should be able to handle city patrol work without issue. Highway seems like it could get concerning, unless when the officer stops for lunch he plugs the car in.
Newer cars have a 12 volt system and a lot of 2017+ now have a 24 volt. The Ohio State Patrol said they have 50 volt system on most of their patrol vehicles because of all the systems they have on board, and I'm talking about the National Criminal database computer, plate readers, front dash cam, and CB communications ports being in continuous use while on a shift then if you need the sirens and lights there is another around 4-6 volts just to operate them. So the electrical systems on an emergency vehicle gets taxed more than any civilian vehicle would ever see in it's entire 15 years on the road vs. a typical 3-5 year service life for Emerg vehicle.
I remember back in the 80's to early 90's the OHP had 2 alternators on the Diplomats and CV's in their fleet just to have enough juice to keep things running.
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Yeah I'm not sure how much power they need with everything getting so much more efficient. The higher voltages would suggest lower amp draws which is the ultimate problem with a limited supply of power.
I did pull up an article on the Tesla cop cars and they typically have 40%-50% battery left after an 11 hours shift.
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