Correct. But this shouldn’t
Correct. But this shouldn’t be a reason not to use BEVs for police duty. This is about double checking your prisoner and tossing the radio car BEFORE securing your perp for transport. To the manufacturers this means putting a steel plate not only under the tray but over it as well. As volatile as batteries can be, doing this not only protects against battery fire, it makes the vehicle more sturdy in a high speed accident, helps keep a low center of gravity in high speed pursuits, enhances the features of hardening the vehicle against attack like a road bomb, and thus makes it an excellent ballistically hardened security vehicle to transport high risk principals. I believe when properly equipped an electric car makes an excellent police and security vehicle and preferable to a gas vehicle. But whether they like them or not the cops and security people need to get used to this idea because gas cars will be gone sooner than we think and the dawn of the Electric Age has already begun.