The car has other issues, namely size. Tesla back seats “only have room for one prisoner,” Crook said, limiting an officer’s ability to sequester suspects. With an all-Tesla police force, Crook believes incidents involving more than one party will require more officers to respond with more cars, putting strain on…

Also Ukiah police chief: “WHOA....where’s my 3rd row of seats?  I bought this fancy, new Corvette C8 and there’s no 3rd row??  WTF?”

CHP had the same issue when they ran the Pursuit Mustangs. Those didn’t even have rear doors.

It’s a little 16k town in northern CA that didn’t bother investigating what would fit their needs or what else they’d need to get to make them useful parts of their fleet.

This is the cheap base model. It doesn’t rear defroster, passenger side mirror or radio.

Yeah, it’s laughable that they chose to buy a Model 3 and then complained that it was too small. As if there weren’t any other EV options available to them.

Meanwhile, Ford has both EV tech and a Police Interceptor model with an established market, yet they will still find a way to sleep through this.

Crook remembered a case where his detectives drove 630 miles to Mexico to transport a potentially dangerous subject in their vehicle.

Most of this sounds more like “sports car as a cruiser” problems than “EV as a cruiser” problems.

There may only be Overtrail as hybrid. Why? The batteries take up the space where the third row would go.

I had typed out “thirtieth” but it got changed to “13th” instead of “30th” by accident in the edit. Now it’s fixed!

*Buys V8 powered 70 k SUV*

The GX is getting a hybrid next year, but it’ll be the same four-cylinder one as the Land Cruiser

How can this be considered an off-road trim? It doesn’t even have 5 inches of shitty plastic cladding around all of the wheel arches.
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The V8 gets like 14 MPG city, ain’t no way I am taking that over the PHEV with more power and torque. I have a lifetime MPG average of 79 MPG so far with this thing. 

Hey! Don’t forget the massive lease incentive they had back in March or April.

Yes, they need to start offering more PHEVs.

Forget these new proposed regulations. The U.S. needs to take a page from EU countries and limit owning/driving full-size pickups (and possibly large SUVs as well) to those with commercial permits driving them for commercial purposes. Or at the very least, enact laws that ban jacking up those monstrosities past their…

First gear: I respect that Toyota was hesitant to jump headfirst into EVs (and the market shows they were smart to do that), but I wish they would double-down on that and release a bunch more plug-in hybrids instead.

“[Toyota] says it’s going to sell as many as seven all-electric vehicles here within the next two years.”