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Originally Posted by Burnzy
Is the fuel savings ever going to payoff? Right now police cars are relatively cheap and they last maybe 3 years. How are cities and counties going to justify doubling the purchase price of this staple of our evergrowing police state? I am not a number cruncher but I dont see how this plan will be able to provide the ROI that will be required.........especially in the current financial climate. Just saying.
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An increase from 15 to 25 mpg would yield $8000 in fuel savings over 100k miles @ $3 per gallon. At $4 per gallon the savings would be $10664. I didn't see mentioned the price of this new cruiser.
I don't know about your municipality, but here locally our newest cruiser is now 3 years old and we are still using several that are over 10 years old. They will all stick around long after the 100k mark.