UK/Japan: First electric police cars roll onto Britain’s streets

A police force is to become the first in the country to operate an electric patrol car.
West Midlands Police will be taking to the streets of Birmingham in Mitsubishi all-electric MiEV city cars from December.
The £30,000 car has a range of 100 miles from a full battery charge

The new blues and twos can carry four adult passengers and equipment in comfort and best of all it will help to keep streets clean as it has zero emissions.
The force is running a new CABLED (Coventry and Birmingham Low Emission Demonstrator) scheme to trial the car for a year.
The initial cost of the Mitsubishi car is too high to be considered for any large scale switch-over but by paying a heavily -subsidised monthly
Source: dailymail.co.uk