AUTOMOTIVE NEWS
A Different Type of Police Cruiser
Some day soon there could be a different type of police cruiser
in your rearview mirror.
The Carbon Motor Corp., a start-up company in Indiana,
has developed a dedicated police car after consulting with 800 police agencies
nationwide. All it needs now is a $310 million loan from the U.S. Department of
Energy¹s Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.
If all goes well the company plans to have the first cruisers on the road by 2013.
According to plans the car will be street ready and sold directly to police
departments without a dealer as the middleman. And when police departments
are done with the cars they will be purchased back by Carbon Motor Corp., and
sold as certified used vehicles to law enforcement agencies or parted out. Carbon
says the cars will have an aluminum space frame with composite panels and they
will be wrapped instead of painted.
Right now the Ford Motor Co., controls about 75 percent of the police market,
followed by Chevrolet and Dodge. Carbon has already struck a deal with BMW AG
to buy 240,000 inline six-cylinder diesel engines to power the police cruisers.
Check out the details at carbonmotors.com.
in your rearview mirror. The Carbon Motor Corp., a start-up company in Indiana,
has developed a dedicated police car after consulting with 800 police agencies
nationwide. All it needs now is a $310 million loan from the U.S. Department of
Energy¹s Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.
If all goes well the company plans to have the first cruisers on the road by 2013.
According to plans the car will be street ready and sold directly to police
departments without a dealer as the middleman. And when police departments
are done with the cars they will be purchased back by Carbon Motor Corp., and
sold as certified used vehicles to law enforcement agencies or parted out. Carbon
says the cars will have an aluminum space frame with composite panels and they
will be wrapped instead of painted.
Right now the Ford Motor Co., controls about 75 percent of the police market,
followed by Chevrolet and Dodge. Carbon has already struck a deal with BMW AG
to buy 240,000 inline six-cylinder diesel engines to power the police cruisers.
Check out the details at carbonmotors.com.
