With its recent addition to the London Parks Police team, the all-electric Toyota bZ4X has evolved into an emergency services vehicle. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea will use the new parks police patrol car as a response vehicle.
It will guard 28 parks, open spaces, and cemeteries in that capacity. It will also be activated during occasions such as the Notting Hill Carnival. The EV is going to be used for more than just show; it will be assigned to one of London's busiest parks police detachments.
Furthermore, the environmental benefits of electric vehicles were taken into account during the selecting process. The bZ4X's lack of exhaust emissions makes it far more welcome in parks than the diesel vehicles formerly used by the police department.
The Toyota bZ4X has a 71.4 kWh battery pack that provides up to 411 km of range on the WLTP cycle. The battery drives two electric motors, which give a total of 215 horsepower to all four wheels.
The squad says it chose the bZ4X because of its all-wheel-drive motor and size: it's tiny enough to slip through the gateways and along routes through the public parks it'll monitor, but large enough to contain all of the equipment the teams operating it need.