Carbon Motors E7 Answers the Call: Country First
DENVER--Today, Carbon Motors Corporation’s E7 purpose-built patrol vehicle makes its 42nd stop on its nationwide Pure Justice Tour at the 116th Annual International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference & Exposition in Denver, Colorado. The Carbon E7 has received overwhelming praise from law enforcement agencies at the local, state, and federal level represented by almost 300 agencies placing production slot reservations for over 11,000 vehicles.
“A retrofitted passenger vehicle posing as a real police car doesn’t even meet 20% of the law enforcement operating requirements. The E7 delivers more than 95% of the attributes law enforcement officers need to keep our communities safe and protect our homeland against threats, both foreign and domestic,” said William Santana Li, chairman and chief executive officer, Carbon Motors Corporation. These key requirements were established by the Carbon Council, a users group of over 3,500 law enforcement professionals from all 50 US States at every rank and level across the country.
“The 450,000 law enforcement patrol vehicles in operation today were not manufactured in the United States of America. The Carbon E7 was designed by law enforcement for law enforcement, and will be built here in the U.S., in Connersville, Indiana. Production of the E7 brings 1,550 new, good paying jobs to a state with nearly 10% unemployment, and to a county suffering from 16% unemployment,” remarked Li.
“Not only is the E7 an exceptional police vehicle built from the ground up – a world’s first,” said Li, “but it also delivers a dramatic 40% improvement in fuel economy over the nation’s fleet of law enforcement vehicles on the road today. Production of the E7 will create new American green jobs of national importance and will help reduce American dependence on foreign oil.”
In order to accelerate production of the E7, Carbon Motors Corporation on August 12th filed an application for a $310 million U.S. Department of Energy loan under the provisions of Section 136 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (the ATVMIP – the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Incentive Program).
The expedited production of the Carbon E7 is in the national homeland security, environmental, and economic interests of the United States of America and is supported by Democrats and Republicans alike, including Governor Mitch Daniels, U.S. Senator Richard Lugar, U.S. Senator Evan Bayh, U.S. Representative Mike Pence, U.S. Representative André Carson, U.S. Representative Dan Burton, U.S. Representative Brad Ellsworth, Fayette County Commissioner Richie Pflum, and Connersville Mayor Leonard Urban.
KEY FACTS
The Carbon E7 will provide a number of interagency solutions and will have material and positive effect on every town, city, county, state, airport, college campus, port, street, high value target, and highway across the country.
U.S. Department of Energy
- Energy – the nation’s law enforcement fleet consumes an estimated 1.5 billion gallons of gasoline and emits an estimated 14 million tons of CO2 annually; the Carbon E7 will cut that by up to 40% using clean diesel technology. Clean diesel is the technically correct short to medium-term solution for law enforcement operations due to its inherent performance, safety, operational, fuel efficiency, and durability characteristics.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Homeland Security – over 8 years after 9-11 our country’s 840,000 law enforcement first responders continue to utilize inconsistently outfitted retail passenger vehicles meant for consumer use which do not provide the safety and performance capabilities appropriate to secure our homeland; over 3,500 law enforcement professionals across all 50 U.S. States at the local, state, and federal level helped design the Carbon E7 to specifically address their needs in the field.
U.S. Department of Justice
- Wasteful Government Spending – unlike the U.S. Department of Defense that oversees our military operations, the U.S. Department of Justice does not oversee the country’s over 19,000 law enforcement agencies which have very limited economies of scale in purchasing the equipment they need and are forced to utilize an outdated and wildly inefficient process to operate and service these vehicles in the field. Moreover, they experience unnecessarily high operating costs due to unacceptable fuel economy, poor durability, excessive service requirements, and critical safety concerns. The Carbon E7 will reduce the total life cycle costs as well as the overall taxpayer burden required to support our law enforcement operations, savings millions of dollars, and provide dramatic improvements in safety and effectiveness.
U.S. Department of Labor
- American Jobs – the over 450,000 law enforcement patrol vehicles that protect and secure our communities across America are not manufactured in the USA. The Carbon E7 will be produced in Connersville, Indiana in an economically depressed region and is projected to create 10,000 new direct and indirect American jobs and a $3 billion positive economic impact. Fayette County is presently experiencing a 16% unemployment rate.
U.S. Department of Transportation
- Safety – the 75,000 new vehicles purchased by law enforcement agencies annually begin as retail passenger cars never intended for law enforcement usage and are haphazardly retrofitted with a plethora of equipment installed on an aftermarket basis. These modified vehicles are never subjected to crash tests required to meet the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) – a level of safety our families enjoy but is not provided to our women and men in uniform. The Carbon E7 will not only meet or exceed all FMVSS requirements with all law enforcement equipment efficiently integrated into the vehicle from the factory, but is additionally designed to meet a 75-mph rear impact crash.
About Carbon Motors Corporation
Carbon Motors Corporation is a bold, new homeland security company on a critical mission to design, develop, manufacture, distribute, service, and recycle, the world’s first purpose-built law enforcement patrol vehicle. Learn more at www.carbonmotors.com.
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