Carbon Motors’ revolutionary E7 police car already has 14,000 reservations
Carbon Motors offers law enforcement what it describes as the first purpose-built police interceptor; the company says that it already has 14,000 orders for the new cruiser — even though the price for the car has not yet been set; the company says that with the help of more than 3,500 U.S. law enforcement professionals from all fifty States representing the local, state, and federal levels, it wrote the groundbreaking specifications for such a vehicle
The police-designed Carbon Motors E7 // Source: modernracer.com
The future of the next-generation police interceptor took a significant step toward reality after Carbon Motors announced, in their latest newsletter, that it has received over 14,000 reservations for the custom-built E7 police car.
Top Speed notes that while the figure is pretty significant, it would be wise to temper expectations in the actual sales volume of the car, especially since nobody has given any indication that they have signed up to buy the E7. The biggest reason behind the lack of firm orders for the E7? The price tag for one unit has yet to be revealed by the boys over at Carbon Motors. “Given what we already know about the car and its multitude of unique and high-tech features, it goes without saying that the price for one will be significantly more expensive than any of the new police cruisers out on the market today,” Top Speed writes.
The company press release notes that it has long been assumed that law enforcement professionals —police, sheriff’s deputies, state patrol, etc. — operate real “police cars,” yet there has never been any proof backed up with logic to show why this statement might be true (or in this case false) in the first place. It is a myth. Law enforcement organizations have never been offered a purpose-built solution because one never existed anywhere in the world until Carbon Motors came along with world’s first and only purpose-built law enforcement patrol vehicle.
The company says that with the help of more than 3,500 U.S. law enforcement professionals from all fifty States representing the local, state, and federal levels, it wrote the groundbreaking specifications for such a vehicle. Based on this comprehensive list, it became evident that modifying a retail passenger car would not suffice — from interior space requirements, to vehicle performance, to the use of advanced homeland security technologies, to the long-term durability based on law enforcement usage patterns, to the fuel efficiency, to the required safety attributes and the list goes on and on and on. Carbon Motors decided to develop an all-new, ground-up homeland security platform for the United States, “Designed by Law Enforcement, Exclusively for Law Enforcement.”
What is “purpose-built”? Purpose-built means “exclusively built for a particular purpose” — a product built from the ground-up with one sole mission, dedicated and committed to one set of professional users. “Our country builds purpose-built vehicles to put out fires, go into battle, clean our streets, collect our trash and deliver our mail. Why not a purpose-built vehicle, then, for patrolling our roadways, protecting our communities, and securing our homeland?” asks Carbon Motors.
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the MRAP All-Terrain Armored Vehicle, an emergency fire truck, a SWAT armored rescue vehicle, and the Carbon “E7” — these are purpose-built vehicles for serious, clear, and singular missions. “The Carbon E7 is in fact so serious, that it will have a positive and material effect on at least six of President Obama’s cabinet-level departments including the Departments of Labor, Energy, Homeland Security, Justice, Transportation, and Treasury,” the company says.
