If you are a police officer and you are chasing a criminal in a car, the last thing you want to see on the dashboard of a car is a notification that the car is running out of gas or, in the case of one police officer in the US city of Fremont, the battery is low. This is exactly what happened to Officer Jesse Hartman a few days ago when a Tesla Model S patrol car warned him during a high-speed chase that the battery was 10 km away.
Hartman radioed that his car was running out of power and would not be able to continue the chase. After that, he stopped the pursuit and started looking for a charging station so that he could return to the station on his own. The Fremont Police Department spokesman said the Tesla battery was not charged prior to Hartman's shift, so the battery level was lower than normal. It was noted that most often after a police shift, Tesla batteries retain 40% to 50% of energy, which suggests that electric cars are quite suitable for an 11-hour patrol.
It is worth noting that the Fremont Police Department became the first in the country to include Tesla electric cars in its fleet of patrol cars. A pilot program is currently underway to evaluate the performance of Tesla electric cars. The data obtained as a result of it will be transferred to the city council, which will decide on the further distribution of electric vehicles.
As for the incident with the dead battery itself, this time this circumstance did not affect the course of events in any way. The pursued vehicle veered off the road and crashed into bushes near where Hartman was forced to stop chasing.
Source: 3dnews.ru