NYPD to trial all-electric scooters next month
By Evan Blass | December 25, 2007
Filed under: Transportation
New York’s finest will also be some of New York’s greenest next month, when the NYPD begins field testing four all-electric scooters from Rhode Island-based Vectrix USA. Although twice as expensive as the gas-powered Piaggio scooters that the department currently uses — and with a fraction of their range — the Vectrix offers police three attractive benefits: reduced fuel costs, lowered vehicle emissions, and, more practically, the element of surprise — the scooters’ nearly-silent engines should allow two-wheeled cops to approach suspects with more discretion. Sounds like a winner to us, as long as officers don’t try pulling some eminent domain crap on our outlet at Starbucks when they need to juice up.
[Via Autoblog Green]
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