T3 Motion Offers Police and Security Services Ways to Go ‘Green’

‘Clean energy’ and ‘clean technology’ have become the new buzzwords for a way of moving about that has been in use for over a century – electric vehicles. After three years in the professional vehicles market, T3 Motion, Inc. has seen that its electric vehicles like the T3 Series Electric Stand-up Vehicle (ESV) and CT Micro Car mean different things to different customers.

For law enforcement agencies, an electric vehicle like the T3 Series ESV means the ability to patrol for pennies on the mile, shift after shift, with hot-swap interchangeable battery technology. By removing issues like range and downtime during recharging, the ability to deploy one electric vehicle 24 hours a day has become possible. For law enforcement agencies, another key benefit comes from promoting the use of zero-gas-emission vehicles to the media and the general public.

For security clients, these electric vehicles mean a low-cost, high-frequency patrol option that reduces crime. It also means return on investment. ROI has never meant more to the public safety community than it has these past few years. As the economic climate has cooled and operating costs have continued to climb, the need to find cost-effective alternatives to traditional fossil-fuel patrol equipment has become paramount.

With the advent of new clean-energy battery technologies such as lithium-ion (Li-ion) and lithium polymer (LiPo), electric vehicles have taken an important step into the 21st century. In contrast to flooded electrolyte (aka ‘lead-acid’) battery technology, today’s lithium-ion systems offer electric vehicles a power management technology specifically designed for massive charge and discharge, day after day. The benefits of Li-ion and LiPo clean-energy patrol solutions like the T3 Series ESV and the electric CT Micro Car for public safety go far beyond just cost savings. These vehicles enable agencies to increase efficiency while eliminating gas emissions. As communities look to become carbon neutral, electric vehicles offer a daily zero-gas-emissions solution for patrol and response applications.

Zero-gas-emission vehicles also enable public safety agencies and departments to increase their command presence. The result is force multiplication through faster patrols, greater frequency of patrols, and the ability to patrol seamlessly indoors and out. These factors lead to decreases in thefts, fewer insurance claims, reduction in crime, and increased public/visitor confidence regarding safe and secure cities.

For environments such as business districts, campuses, airports, malls and perimeter security, electric vehicles are a tremendous way to shorten response times, increase force visibility (aka ‘force factoring’), create a perception of omnipresence, and give administrators an ability to reduce the size of their public safety force, if necessary.

A national retailer with approximately 1,600 store locations nationwide consulted with T3 Motion, Inc. for solutions for the Assets Protection patrols in their parking lots. The retailer identified high-risk locations to unveil their fleet of 125 T3 Series ESVs. The T3 Series Assets Protection patrols reported a 61% decrease in incidents ranging from property and vehicle theft/vandalism to assault.

Simon Property Group deployed 85 T3 Series ESVs at 55 of its locations nationally. By replacing 55 gasoline powered vehicles (one per property), Simon has estimated their operating cost savings over three years at $3.2 million. From the green side of the equation, Simon also projects the deployment of each T3 Series ESV will reduce their annual carbon footprint by five tons of CO2 per vehicle.

For each professional market sector, T3 Motion, Inc. has seen its customers reap annual savings and experience budgetary and public relations benefits that further justify electric vehicle solutions over fossil-fuel vehicles.