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NYPD To Replace Motor Fleet With Electric Scooters

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stop-or-I'll-beep dept.

XueCast writes "A few days ago, the New York Police Department, one of the largest police forces in the US, announced that they are planning to make New York greener by replacing their gasoline motorcycle fleet with the super-quiet and energy efficient electric scooters from Vectrix. NYPD said that they will first road test four electric scooters from the Rhode Island-based electric vehicle manufacturer next month, and if the road test is a success, NYPD said that they plan to order more electric scooters from Vectrix to replace their less-than-green motorcycle fleet."

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  1. Come on Editors by OverlordQ · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Stop linking to blogs whose sole purpose is copy+pasting content from other sites and link to the source

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  2. Re:misleading title by Mistlefoot · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And electric vehicles are wonderfully silent. I'm not sure how often stealth would be helpful for a NY City cop but it's certainly likely to be an interesting side effect.

  3. Re:Wow those are really intimidating by Pfhorrest · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Unfortunately a (growing?) segment of the population has little respect for concepts such as law and order and societal stability. They do respect the force of a gun, however, and as such a certain amount of perceived intimidation is useful. While I agree completely with the gist of what you're saying, I would phrase it a little differently.

    People are losing what little respect they once had for each other and for themselves, such respect being the foundation of law and order and societal stability; and they are now more and more turning to (and bowing to) the use of force instead, where in more civilized times their respect for each other or for themselves would have prevented them from turning to (or bowing to) such shows of force.
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  4. Re:Environmental cost by Viol8 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "you're joking, right?"

    Err no , why would I be?

    "how about comparing it with a car of similar performance?"

    An average bike does 0-60 in about 5 seconds. My camaro could do that and still hit 30mpg on a good day and it weighed 1600kg. How can a 160kg bike of the same performance only get less than twice the mpg? Sorry , something doesn't add up.

    A vehicle such as a bike that is that light with a cross sectional area that small should have far far better mpg than perhaps 50% more than a car weighing 10 times more and 4 or 5 times the frontal area (and hence air resistance). The fact that bikes don't says a lot about their inefficient (and torque-free) engines.