First Fuel Cell Police Car
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Posted by Cindy Zimmerman – April 7th, 2006
Wayne State University in Detroit is the proud owner of the world’s first fuel cell-powered police car introduced this week by DaimlerChrysler. According to their release, the Wayne State University Police Department will operate the Mercedes F-Cell as a supervisor’s vehicle on and in the immediate vicinity of the campus, located in Detroit’s Cultural Center. Outfitted with a third-generation police radio, decals, lights and sirens, the Wayne State University Police Department F-Cell is a look into the future use of fuel cell vehicles. The demanding operation of a police car will produce valuable data to help develop fuel cell technology.
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Roger Murdoch
The demanding operation of a police car will produce valuable data to help develop fuel cell technology.
How is that? You just said it would be a supervisor’s vehicle in the immediate vicinity of the campus. Supervisor’s are hardly the ones to go in harm’s way, and driving around a college campus can’t be that demanding. (Many campus police departments use bicycles.)
A more robust test would be to assign it to the Michigan State Police where real troopers could log some hard and demanding miles on the Interstate.
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