Carbon Motors E7 Answers the Call: Country First

Carbon E7 Purpose-Built Law Enforcement Patrol Vehicle

Carbon Motors Corporation’s E7 purpose-built patrol vehicle makes its 42nd stop on its nationwide Pure Justice Tour at the 116th Annual International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference & Exposition in Denver, Colorado. The Carbon E7 has received overwhelming praise from law enforcement agencies at the local, state, and federal level represented by almost 300 agencies placing production slot reservations for over 11,000 vehicles.

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“A retrofitted passenger vehicle posing as a real police car doesn’t even meet 20% of the law enforcement operating requirements. The E7 delivers more than 95% of the attributes law enforcement officers need to keep our communities safe and protect our homeland against threats, both foreign and domestic,” said William Santana Li, chairman and chief executive officer, Carbon Motors Corporation. These key requirements were established by the Carbon Council, a users group of over 3,500 law enforcement professionals from all 50 US States at every rank and level across the country.

“The 450,000 law enforcement patrol vehicles in operation today were not manufactured in the United States of America. The Carbon E7 was designed by law enforcement for law enforcement, and will be built here in the U.S., in Connersville, Indiana. Production of the E7 brings 1,550 new, good paying jobs to a state with nearly 10% unemployment, and to a county suffering from 16% unemployment,” remarked Li.

“Not only is the E7 an exceptional police vehicle built from the ground up – a world’s first,” said Li, “but it also delivers a dramatic 40% improvement in fuel economy over the nation’s fleet of law enforcement vehicles on the road today. Production of the E7 will create new American green jobs of national importance and will help reduce American dependence on foreign oil.”

In order to accelerate production of the E7, Carbon Motors Corporation on August 12th filed an application for a $310 million U.S. Department of Energy loan under the provisions of Section 136 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (the ATVMIP – the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Incentive Program).

The expedited production of the Carbon E7 is in the national homeland security, environmental, and economic interests of the United States of America and is supported by Democrats and Republicans alike, including Governor Mitch Daniels, U.S. Senator Richard Lugar, U.S. Senator Evan Bayh, U.S. Representative Mike Pence, U.S. Representative André Carson, U.S. Representative Dan Burton, U.S. Representative Brad Ellsworth, Fayette County Commissioner Richie Pflum, and Connersville Mayor Leonard Urban.