A review of the awesome Carbon Motors E7 purpose built police vehicle

1. Summer 2010
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Dave Brunner . . . . . . . .Indianapolis, Indiana
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Tom Clines . . . . . . . . . Noblesville, Indiana
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Peter F. Episcopo. . . . . . . . Carmel, Indiana
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PFIA Services Directory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 Gerald Housel . . . . . . . . Speedway, Indiana
ABM/AR Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 Tom C. Jackson . . . . . . . . . . .Peoria, Illinois
Mark S. Kemp . . . . New Palestine, Indiana
Swap Shop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
David G. Lentz . . . . . . . . Slidell, Louisiana
Chili & Donuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Alan Melancon . . . . .New Orleans, Louisiana
Steve D. Murphy . . . . . .Indianapolis, Indiana
About the cover...
Don Trejbal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Akron, Ohio
Law enforcement’s
first purpose-built Salvatore Valvo . . . . . .Lancaster, New York
vehicle, the E7, will Legal Counsel . . . . . . . . . . . .E. Davis Coots
debut in 2012. It is
currently on tour John D. Hoover
around the country. Michael B. Murphy
The E7 will soon
Donald J. Pistillo
be bringing jobs to
Indiana and comfort Lawrence W. Schmits
and ease to its future
Actuary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Steve Griffith
occupants—in the
front seats, anyway. Griffith, Ballard and Company
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3. T The Carbon Council
he Carbon Motors E7 prototype Based on the myriad responses, the
is turning the car manufacturing Carbon Motors team knew that the
Stephens immediately developed a tradition of modifying a retail pas-
industry on its ear. This is the
web site where law enforcement offi- senger car into a service car would not
first, and only, vehicle “purpose-built”
cers from all over the U.S. could offer cut it. They decided to develop an all-
for law enforcement. What is “purpose-
suggestions for their ideal cruiser. new, never-seen-before, modern law
built,” you ask? It quite simply means
Contributors from the web community
that these cars will be built exclusively enforcement vehicle.
were called the “Carbon Council.”
with a particular purpose in mind. The Fuel Efficiency
Eventually, the web site www.carbon-
new E7 will be manufactured from the
motors.com expanded to give updates
ground up with the sole goal of meeting The engineers knew a hybrid or
on the company’s progress and to
all the needs of its users—law enforce- electric engine could not meet the
display design ideas for the vehicle
ment officers. demands to be placed on the vehicle.
that was to become the ‘E7,’ a tempo-
BMW got on board with Carbon
A Modest Beginning rary code name for the project until
Motors to produce a 3.0 liter “clean”
law enforcement provides the official
When Stacy Dean Stephens was still diesel engine. The 300 horsepower
nameplate.
a patrol officer in Dallas, Texas, he engine can accelerate the E7 from 0
began to wonder why the fire depart- More than 3,500 law enforcement to 60 in less than 6.5 seconds and
ment and the military had special professionals, representing local, state reach a top speed of 155 mph! A
vehicles designed for their profession, and federal departments from all big advantage to the diesel engine is
while his did not. After three years 50 states, weighed in on the ground that it is more efficient in idle mode
of seeing fellow officers who were breaking site. Changes to the car’s than engines using unleaded gas.
seriously injured or killed in car acci- interior dimensions, overall perfor- Departments purchasing the E7 can
dents, Stephens decided it was high mance, durability (despite the extreme expect to see a 40% improvement in
time to turn his ideas into a reality. demands of police use) and fuel effi- fuel economy over their current fleet
He earnestly began to solicit his idea ciency were the most basic requests. vehicles. This results in a savings in
for a specially designed patrol car Other’s indicated a desire to see more taxpayer dollars as well.
to auto execs across the country. He safety features, inside and outside the
Did you know... there are over 19,000
finally found a former Ford executive cruiser. More elaborate suggestions
law enforcement agencies in the U.S.
who was willing to listen. William encompassed the integration of all the
with a combined total of over 425,000
Santana Li liked Stephens’ idea and newest technologies currently avail-
vehicles? These vehicles average only 8-
was up for the challenge of chang- able in the fight against crime and
14 miles per gallon and can sometimes
ing the car industry. Now Stacy Dean terrorism. Lee Hamilton, a former U.S.
drive up to 90,000 miles a year. With
Stephens is co-founder and Director House member from Indiana and vice
this size fleet, it is estimated that law
chairman of the 9/11 commission,
of Communications for Carbon enforcement in the United States burns
advocated sensors to detect biological/
Motors, and William Santana Li is through 1.5 billion gallons of gasoline
chemical weapons and radioactive
currently the Chairman and CEO. The annually and emits over 14 million
materials from inside the car. Oh, and
tragic events of 9-11 in 2001 acted as tons of carbon dioxide into the atmo-
it could not cost more than the fully
a catalyst, and the fledgling company sphere per year. Taxpayers are shelling
outfitted fleet vehicles currently in use
quickly amassed a team of engineers out over $4 billion each year for fuel
by police agencies. Tough demands,
and auto manufacturing experts to expenditures alone—a number that
indeed.
develop a homeland security style only increases as the cost of fuel rises.
vehicle.
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4. LED into 24 flush-mounted
groupings, 360 degrees
around the vehicle.
An LED spotlight, operated by joystick, The back doors open “coach-style” to make it easier to
has been moved from the driver’s side place suspects in the vehicle, while also making
door to prevent officers from hitting it harder for those very
their heads on the cumbersome same suspects
handles—an added safety to escape.
measure in the event
of a collision.
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An infared camera built Two cameras positioned at license plate level The chassis’ frame will be constructed of extruded and
into the front of the vehi- automatically take photos and compare plate hydroformed aluminum, more similar to the frame of
cle transfers images of numbers against a national database. The digital a race car than a traditional passenger vehicle. It’s so
people or animals at night system can process 1,500 plates per minute, strong, the rear of the vehicle can absorb a 75 mph
onto a console for easy retrieving alerts on ‘wants and warrants,’ such impact! In addition, the body panels will be made of
monitoring. as: auto thefts, unpaid citations and Amber alerts. thermoformed plastic, with the colors molded right in!
High-Tech Interior Console: The integrated Front Compartment: The front seats are Rear Compartment: The entire transport
LED lights, sirens, public address system, designed to accommodate utility belts and hol- compartment is a solid unit, including the safety
etc... can be controlled by buttons, touch sters, and reinforced with a Kevlar-like material divider. The seatbelts snap into place so officers
screen or voice command. A small printer has along those areas to reduce wear-and-tear. A do not have to lean over detainees, and the
also been built into the console to produce vent in the driver’s side headrest also delivers seats are constructed out of a durable molded
computer-generated citations. Plus, the cup warm or cool air to the back of the driver’s neck. plastic to facilitate easy cleanup. In addition,
holders can be temperature controlled! video monitors record the activities and conver-
sations made in the back seat.
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5. Continued from page 5
“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?”
—Stacy Dean Stephens
Home Sweet Home By bringing the E7 to Indiana, Carbon and other designs directly into the
Motors will be creating 1,550 new thermoformed plastic body panels.
Carbon Motors Corporation started jobs for the largely unemployed popu- By eliminating the painting pro-
up in California, but finally chose lace in the surrounding county. Not cess, the release of Volatile Organic
Indiana as its permanent headquar- to mention an additional 500 jobs Compounds (VOCs) normally associ-
ters. In the process of looking for a opening up for Tier 1 suppliers who ated with the paints and solvents used
“home”, the Carbon management will share the facility, and 8,000 indi- are also eliminated.
team came up with a list of over rect jobs throughout the state due to
400 criteria to be considered in find- In addition, the plastic body parts will
increased demand for products and
ing the “perfect” location. High on be constructed of recycled materials.
services from Carbon’s facility. In fact,
that list was the goal of creating new Carbon Motors also intends to re-use
Chairman and CEO William Santana
jobs in this hard-pressed economy. vehicles (to be offered as certified
Li anticipates sourcing 70% of the car
Another was in keeping with the used), re-use parts from dismantled
domestically, mostly from Indiana.
company’s “green” policies— retrofit- E7s, and recycle approximately 95% of
ting an existing manufacturing facil- A Green Machine their cars at their “end-of-life” point.
ity to LEED (Leadership in Energy & Assuming ownership of the Progress & Pricing
Environmental Design) certification. Connersville site also requires Carbon
As of May 2010, Carbon Motors had
Connersville, Indiana seemed to best Motors to attend to the remediation
surpassed 14,000 reservations for
fit the bill. Connersville has been of trichloroethylene (TCE) water con-
the new E7, which has been on tour
home to at least seven automakers tamination resulting from the original
across the nation since 2008, wowing
of yesteryear—Auburn, Ansted, Cord, usage of industrial solvents in the
departments with its distinctive design.
Duesenberg, Empire, Lexington and facility—to the tune of $4 million! Carbon Motors counts reservations
McFarlan. Carbon Motors plans to Above and beyond that, the company from over 400 law enforcement agen-
convert an old manufacturing plant is planning to lower the risks of envi- cies, representing each functional area
that was built there in 1954. Most ronmental contamination from their of law enforcement in 48 out of 50
recently, the factory produced heating plant by cutting out a traditional step states. There have even been requests
and cooling systems for Ford until of auto manufacturing—the paint- from Australia, Brazil, Canada, France,
2007, when they were forced to close ing. The use of a co-molded, colored Libya, South Africa, and Ukraine (to
their doors and lay off their entire film in their unique manufacturing name a few). At this rate, the corpora-
work force. process will integrate colors, letters tion fully expects to be sold out well
in advance of the first E7 rolling off
the assembly line in 2012.
Although Carbon has not yet
announced formal pricing, standard
police cars today are priced on average
from the mid-$40,000 to the low-
$60,000 range and Carbon Motors
says that a turn-key E7 will be very
competitive. Cruisers loaded with
extra options, such as the radiation and
biological threat detectors, will be sig-
nificantly more expensive, of course.
Clockwise (from front to back) Chairman and CEO William Santana Li,
Co-founder Stacy Dean Stephens, Executive VP and Chief Development Officer
Trevor J. Rudderham, Executive VP and Chief Production Officer Alan J. Bratt,
Executive VP and Chief Financial Officer Keith R. Marchiando, Executive VP
and Chief Strategy Officer Andrew B. Savarie, Finance Manager Peter T Bartlett
and Director Product Planning William F McAtamney.
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6. The E7 prototype sits in front of the Carbon Campus in Connersville, Indiana. When finished, Carbon Motors’ executive offices, research and develop-
ment teams, assembly line, service center and sales department will all exist on this one site.
The initial cost of the vehicle might ing prowess back home to the country Thank you to Stacy Dean Stephens for grant-
seem much higher in comparison to that invented cars. PFIA is happy to ing me an interview and allowing me to
purchasing a traditional fleet vehicle, see a like-minded organization, reprint information and photos from the
but when you factor in the amount “vehicles designed by law enforce- Carbon Motors web site: carbonmotors.com.
it costs to outfit a retail car (such as a ment, exclusively for law enforce-
Crown Victoria) to law enforcement ment.” We also hope that prosperity Below: The E7 prototype garners lots of atten-
standards, and again, what it costs to finds its way to our neighbors south- tion with its flashing integrated lights in Detroit,
remove all that equipment at the end east of Indianapolis, in Connersville. Michigan at one stop on its Pure Justice Tour.
of its service life, the savings really
start to show. Furthermore, once you
consider that the life expectancy of the
entire E7 is envisioned to be twice as
long as a standard retail car under law
enforcement usage patterns, it makes
even more sense to invest in a Carbon
Motors vehicle. Then, when you look
at the savings in fuel consumption,
you might just quit your job in law
enforcement and join their sales team.
And truly, how can you put a price on
the one-of-a-kind safety features inte-
grated into this vehicle, which may
yield an untallied return on invest-
ment of saved lives.
Overall, it sounds like the Carbon
Council has come up with a winner,
and that Carbon Motors is building
more than a car. They are building a
better future. We hope that Carbon
Motors is successful in their endeavor
to bring America’s auto manufactur-
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