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German Police in Lower Saxony buys 215 ID.3
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Inb4 Americans wake up and can’t fathom how these cars will perform high speed chases à la Need For Speed.
Firstly: awesome! BEVs are really taking a hold – slowly but surely in otherwise not so BEV-friendly Germany.
Secondly: If you wonder why VW – just know that Lower Saxony owns a huge stake of VW and thus is very interested in making sure that VW is successful in future, too.
> The Lower Saxony police force is increasingly relying on electric mobility from Volkswagen for its operations. The authority has ordered a total of 215 ID.3s as emergency vehicles from Europe’s market leader for fully electric cars. It is the first authority in Germany to rely on purely electric vehicles on this scale. The police force will also add another 175 Passat hybrid models to its existing fleet of 160 Volkswagen Passat GTEs. The ID.3s, which will roll off the production lines in Zwickau and Dresden, will be delivered to the police force successively from August. The first ten ID.3s were presented to the public today at a press event at the Central Police Headquarters of Lower Saxony in Hanover.
> The automaker won the contract in a Europe-wide tender. “This decision in favor of Volkswagen is significant and can serve as a model for other authorities in Germany and beyond,” said Holger B. Santel, Head of Volkswagen Germany. “We have a strong offer and hope that other authorities in Germany and Europe will also increasingly rely on e-mobility in the near future.” For example, the Vienna police are currently testing the ID.3 as well as the ID.4.
> The ID vehicles for the police in Lower Saxony are neutral vehicles and emergency vehicles for the criminal investigation department. The latter are equipped with a radio and blue light that can be mounted on the roof of the vehicle in case of emergency.
I wonder if they will stop ordering the Passat GTE once the ID Space Vizzion is available. Many police cars in Germany are mid-size wagons and there are currently no fully electric alternatives.
I wonder if they will be always online, just like most EVs infotainment systems are nowadays. Because this would mean that some IT guys at VW could track the behavior of the police.
great choice of car! And awesome that they’re going green
Real quiet…good for sneaking up on motherfuckers.
I wonder how Police would respond the Bolt being the standard vehicle for their departments.
Wait, I saw those 10 on a delivery truck recently. I was wondering how good ID.3 sales must be if a full set of identical cars makes it way to Hannover. Makes a lot more sense now. Also: it’s a good way to prove the longevity of the car. They don’t treat their vehicles as carefully and precious as most private owner probably do.