If ever there is way to infuse something as a routine into the modern society, the initiative has to come from the bearers of legal responsibility, more familiarly known as the police department or cops as to say in day-to-day language.
These people can set trends and if they are responsible to pull down a car emitting high quantity of C02, they themselves possessing cars, which love greenery, make a lot of sense. The world really seems to understand the importance of eco-friendly wagons like never before and an instant example of it is the Connellsville Police Department using the first ever all-electric police car.
The credit for this appreciable effort goes too Coherent Systems International Corp., which picked up a 2000 Chevrolet impala from a Municipal Junkyard and gave it a new life altogether.
The Impala had to be retrofitted with an electric motor, which was a part of a three-year project that included absolute surrogating of the transmission, motor and all other equipment which electricity couldn’t power.
The only sad part with this news was the mellowed public debut of this car, which in my opinion should have happened on a higher note so that people were aware that the police is bothered and an obvious contribution from them was now expected and to say the least is also the need of the hour.
Apart from giving an eco-friendly rapport to the Connellsville Police Department, it makes a smaller hole in their pocket too as it costs approximately 35-cents a day to maintain where as a gasoline powered car costs more than $3.50 per day minus the price of gasoline.
User friendliness is generally associated with software but the cars interior modifications qualify it for that benchmark as well. The cars interior is organized differently as there is no gearshift or a speedometer.
Forward, Neutral and Reverse buttons make way for the gearshift whilst the speedometer is replaced by a computer screen that displays the speed. To add to the ease, the car can be recharged using an electrical cord, which can be plugged into a standard grid and once recharged a full-eight hour shift can be catered too.
Coherent Systems International declined to give the pricing but they maintained that it’s a prototype, which involved heavy development costs, but they were hopeful that the final cost of the product will stay in affordable limits as more development and conversion of such cars will see the manufacturing costs decreasing.
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