Studying the use of hybrid vehicles by the Reno County Sheriff’s office, Automotive Department Director Kyle Berg found they didn’t provide quite as much savings on gas as projected. However, the combination of gas and electric engines cut down significantly on engine idle time for the patrol vehicles. That prompted Berg to recommend the county extend the replacement schedule for those vehicles by a year, from four years to five, which could save the county substantially more. The only issue, Berg noted, is that other county departments often add the vehicles to their fleets as replacements when they’re retired by the sheriff’ s office, so he wasn’t sure how it would impact operations overall.
Source: Hutch News.
