You know 95% of Post Office mail carrier trucks drive less than 40 miles/day on their routes? Or think about how regenerative braking would benefit the repetitive start/stop duty cycle?
I saw an article about a company developing wind-up spring technology for garbage trucks. The idea is to let the spring stop the truck then assist getting it moving again.
Research "dog mode" and "camp mode" for Tesla to get an idea of how little is consumed running the HVAC. Police cars and ambulances spend 7 of 8 hours/shift idling. If one really feels one must keep the battery topped off then at idle a little 120VAC 12A connection will more than power the HVAC and vehicle.
Far fewer police are on the street at night than during the day. Patrol is a low-speed low-energy consumption mode compared to interstate speeds. As covered above, an EV is much more efficient at idle than an ICE so things are equally better at low neighborhood patrol speeds.
Around here officers are assigned a vehicle which they drive home after the shift. That could be a problem if they are expected to charge at home. Officers take better car of a vehicle they drive home than a pooled vehicle.
Anyone who thinks one EV is charged during the day totally negates the fact 97% get their charge exclusively at night is delusional.
With T.O.U. billing (used in locales at risk of daytime brownouts) it may cost 5x more to charge during peak hours than at night. If that is what you have to do then that is what you have to do. But that is something most will make great effort to avoid.
Yup, I've often charged during the day. Arrest me.
You forget the purpose of modern government seems to be to recklessly spend money to profit political donors, sponsors, and special interest groups. You are fighting against the symptom not the cause. The cause is ever-expanding government which needs to be stopped.
