The first day Hertz, now the NYPD. A new report says the New York City Police Department is considering buying 250 Tesla Model 3 cars to add to their fleet. The deal could be worth up to $12.36 million.
According to a Bloomberg report. The deal isn’t final, but if it is signed, it will result in a cost of $51,940 per car. Maybe for that price, they will Model 3 Long-range sedans, allowing law enforcement officers to patrol longer before requesting a recharge. Police cruisers spend a lot of time idling, so electric vehicles can cut fuel costs significantly.
Overall, that’s still only a small fraction of the NYPD’s total fleet. According to a listing by the NYC Mayor’s Office of Operations, the police department owns 9,621 cars. And that in itself is just a fraction of the 31,127 vehicles the city operates on. That includes garbage vans, street sweepers, fire trucks, ambulances, and vehicles used by the Parks Department, just to name a few.
This isn’t the first time the NYPD has had electric vehicles in its fleet, but it will be the first all-electric vehicles. It already owns examples of Chevy Volt, Ford Escape Hybrid and Toyota Prius.
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