NYPD to road test electric scooters

NEW YORK (AP) — Police working to keep the city safer will be trying to keep it greener too — by testing an electric, ultra-quiet scooter.

Four plug-in Vectrix scooters will be road tested starting early next month as the New York Police Department tries to become more environmentally friendly and reduce gasoline use in its massive motor fleet.


The nation’s largest police department already uses a handful of hybrid cars and so-called flex-fuel vehicles, which can run on both gasoline and ethanol.

“Police effectiveness comes first, but where we can combine environmentally friendly vehicles without compromising the mission, we do,” Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.

AP