Tesla Cybertruck Police Vehicles Are Going To This Metropolis First

All of us knew it was going to occur sometime. That day has come: The Tesla Cybertruck is a police automotive.

On Tuesday, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division on Tuesday formally unveiled what it calls “the nation’s first absolutely operational Cybertruck patrol fleet.” A police division in Southern California purchased one of many funky vans final yr, however so far as we will inform, the Las Vegas PD is the primary to have a number of. And naturally it needed to be Vegas, the place subtlety goes to die.

In response to the LVMPD, the ten vans “will carry tactical instruments wanted to help the women and men of LVMPD on essential requires service equivalent to barricades and shootings. Every space command will obtain a Cybertruck.”

With four-wheel steering, adjustable-height suspension, a panoramic glass roof and an $80,000 price ticket at a minimal, the Cybertruck is clearly overkill for police obligation. To some, a Cybertruck police cruiser might even have the distinct ring of a darkish, dystopian future. (Elon Musk himself stated the Cybertruck is what Harrison Ford’s character in would’ve pushed on patrol in Blade Runnerwhich, might I remind you, didn’t depict a brilliant superior imaginative and prescient for the world.)

To make sure, the LVMPD made clear that no taxpayer {dollars} have been spent on the vans. As a substitute, they have been a present from the enterprise capitalist Ben Horowitz (of Andreesen Horowitz) and his spouse Felicia.

And there are some distinct advantages to the vans, in accordance with Up.Match, which outfitted the vans for police obligation. The corporate highlights the Cybertruck’s ballistic-resistant door panels, minimal upkeep wants and the truth that EVs do not burn gas by idling, which police automobiles are inclined to do loads. Throughout a press convention, Sheriff Kevin McMahill stated he desires his division to be essentially the most technologically superior police division within the nation, including that the Cybertrucks will assist law enforcement officials do their jobs higher and extra safely.

On the finish of the day, although, cops might largely get pleasure from merely wanting badass. As Sheriff McMahill stated throughout the press convention, the Cybertrucks are a “heck of a recruiting device.”

“These vans are excessive efficiency, they usually’re constructed robust, to deal with all the pieces from Fremont Road to Purple Rock Canyon,” he stated. “Cops are gonna look sort of cool in them too, proper?”

Contact the creator: Tim.Levin@InsideEVs.com