Talking About Vehicle Electrification and Patrol Cars

Vehicle electrification can become a complex issue in demanding applications such as patrol cars and other emergency-response platforms.
March 4, 2025

The growing vehicle electrification trend is expanding throughout almost every facet of our society. When many consider vehicle electrification, they tend to dive into the granularity of the solution sets and “how do we get to where we're going.” However, application-specific needs also should be addressed in their migration to electric vehicles. 

In this podcast, we talk with a couple of fellow editors, Andy Turudic from Electronic Design and Paul Peluso from Officer Magazine about considerations when it comes to patrol cars. Among the advantages in an EV patrol car, for example, is the ability to sit idle without the engine running yet have the heater/air conditioner/radio on. Downsides include reduced load capacity in smaller EVs.

>>Check out more content from Automotive Electrification (BMS) design week, and the TechXchange for more podcasts

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Alix Paultre

Editor-at-Large, Electronic Design

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Also check out his YouTube watch-collecting channel, Talking Timepieces

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