Carbon Motors Sees Rising Demand for Patrol Vehicles

Carbon Motors, a Connersville-based homeland security company, is making a global impact with its new law enforcement patrol vehicles. The company is currently embarked on a nationwide Pure Justice Tour promoting the vehicle, which stops in Carmel (at 3 Civic Square) on July 30. An email from the company explains: 

Carbon Motors has clearly positioned itself as the global leader in law enforcement vehicle technology, and the demand for the world’s first and only, truly purpose-built solution for law enforcement officers is unquestioned.

Carbon Motors has now exceeded 21,000 reservations for the sedan version of its portfolio of law enforcement patrol vehicles from nearly 600 law enforcement agencies across all 50 US states.  Additionally, the Company has received unsolicited requests for future exports from over 35 countries around the world.

The Carbon E7 will continue its trek across the United States to help further product, corporate and supplier development efforts. While doing so, Carbon Motors will be completing its 68th through 71st stops on the Pure Justice Tour within the next two weeks.

If you’ve not had a chance to see this revolutionary vehicle in person, please take the opportunity to do so at one of the following locations below. As its management team continues to work hard to protect those that put themselves in harms way every day, Carbon Motors would like to extend its appreciation and thanks to each of the hosts at the Cambridge, Stamford, New Rochelle and Carmel Police Departments.

Who’s Saving the Electric Car?

The United States government is working to make electric cars more mainstream. Much controversy has centered around this technology and why it has failed to thrive in the market (and that controversy culminated with the popular documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car?"). Some blame flaws with the technology, some blame car manufacturers, some blame the government, and some blame oil companies. But an article in Government Technology reveals the electric car is far from dead:

President Barack Obama has called on the U.S. to put 1 million electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrids on the road by 2015. But the country won’t get anywhere close to that number until drivers are confident they can find places to recharging stations.

How best to deploy a network of charging stations and jump-start the market for EVs are questions at the heart of the EV Project, a two-year study in five states that will put drivers in thousands of all-electric cars starting late this year. The U.S. Department of Energy announced a $99.8 million grant to the project in August 2009.

While an efficient gas-powered car can run 350 miles or more on a 12-gallon fill up, a battery charge will take an all-electric vehicle only 100 to 200 miles. Most electric car drivers will recharge them at home or at work, but if they want to use their vehicles for more than just local trips, they will need to plug them in while out and about.

Fear of getting stranded if they drive too far makes many people leery of electric cars. "People already have ‘range anxiety,’" said Colleen Crowninshield, manager of the Clean Cities Program at the Pima Association of Governments (PAG), in Tucson, Ariz., one of more than 40 partners in the EV Project.

Electric Transportation Engineering Corp. (eTec), a Phoenix-based developer of vehicle charging stations that heads the project consortium, will install 4,700 chargers in the homes and businesses of drivers who participate in the study, as well as 6,510 chargers in commercial and public locations. 

What do you think? Is this the right approach?