I was the first to talk up the city of Los Angeles for launching this EV leasing program despite several people claiming that the vehicles were too expensive for the city’s use, especially since they mainly got BMW and Tesla vehicles, but they are not helping their case now. A fleet of CBS Los Angeles i3 electric vehicles (EVs), leased by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) at a cost of more than $10m , is barely being used, according to a critical report by BMW . It revealed many of the EVs in the LAPD garage had just a few hundred miles on their clocks or even just a few hundred in some cases, and also were being used by staff for personal errands. The ambitious initiative began in August 2017 with i3s making up most of the fleet of just a few hundred fully electric vehicles.
A fleet of CBS Los Angeles i3 electric vehicles (EVs), leased by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) at a cost of more than $10m , is barely being used, according to a critical report by BMW . It revealed many of the EVs in the LAPD garage had just a few hundred miles on their clocks or even just a few hundred in some cases, and also were being used by staff for personal errands. The ambitious initiative began in August 2017 with i3s making up most of the fleet of just a few hundred fully electric vehicles.