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Dodge Durango Special Joins the Force

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March 21, 2012

Posted on MARCH 21, 2012 by RLD

Dodge has announced the Durango Special Service, an SUV specially engineered for police, fire, and heavy-duty use. Built at the modern Jefferson North plant in Detroit, the Durango Special Service joins the Dodge Charger Pursuit and Ram 1500 Special Service truck, two more vehicles already available on special order to government agencies and other qualified fleet operations.

“We’re incredibly excited to add the Dodge Durango Special Service to our line-up of law enforcement vehicles,” said Peter Grady, Vice President of Network Development and Fleet Operations. “Adding Durango to our current Dodge Charger Pursuit and Ram 1500 Special Service vehicles allows us to offer a full range of fleet sedan, SUV, and truck options to law enforcement and government agencies.”

The Dodge Durango Special Service is offered in both rear and all-wheel drive versions and with two available engines: a Pentastar 3.6-liter V-6 and a 5.7-liter HEMI V-8 rated at 360 horsepower. Special equipment on the hardcore Durango includes heavy-duty brakes, battery, alternator, water pump, and an engine oil cooler.

“The standard Durango has several class-leading attributes, such as power, towing and a driving range of more than 550 miles, so it is a natural to become a great utility tool for law enforcement and general fleet customers,” said Reid Bigland, President and CEO, Dodge Brand. “This Special Service version will no doubt be a major asset to any agency in need of a durable, yet comfortable, SUV.”

Department of Energy says ‘no’ to Carbon Motors’ loan request for police car

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March 8, 2012

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Department of Energy says ‘no’ to Carbon Motors’ loan request for police car

Published March 07, 2012

FoxNews.com

Carbon Motors

The police car of the future has hit a major bump in the road.

Carbon Motors announced Wednesday that the Department of Energy has informed the Indiana-based startup automaker that it is no longer considering its $310 million loan application to the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing program.

The company planned to use the money to produce a purpose-built, fuel-efficient law enforcement vehicle called the E7 for police and homeland security use.

Carbon Motors spokesman Stacy Stephens tells FoxNews.com that the company was blindsided by the decision after being engaged in positive discussions with the government agency for the past 30 months, having recently been told by officials that it was “the number one priority of the Department of Energy.”

When Energy Secretary Steven Chu visited Indianapolis on Monday, he told reporters that the department wanted to go forward with the loan but that it has “a responsibility to the taxpayers and they need to make sure it’s written in the statute that there’s a reasonable chance of repayment,” according to WIBC radio.

Stephens says that the company has sourced over $200 million in private matching funds as part of the loan requirements and began constructing a new headquarters building in Connersville, Ind., where the car was to be manufactured at a former brownfield site, creating over 1,500 jobs.

The automaker’s CEO, William Santana Li, says his company is outraged by what it calls a “political decision in a highly charged, election-year environment,” caused by the fallout from the bankruptcy of Energy loan recipient Solyndra last fall.

The move by the Energy Department comes one week after another Indiana startup working on a plug-in hybrid van, Bright Automotive, closed down after dropping its pursuit of a similar loan it originally applied for in 2008, saying it could no longer wait for the agency to act on the application.

Carbon Motors has no plans to shut down at this point and says it is “examining strategic and financing alternatives.”

“We were hit right square in the nose from the federal government and need to dust off and regroup,” Stephens says.

VoiceVault™ Advanced Wireless Microphone Now Available from Digital Ally

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January 4, 2012

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VoiceVault™ Advanced Wireless Microphone Now Available from Digital Ally

VoiceVault™ Advanced Wireless Microphone Now Available With Digital Ally’s DVM-500Plus In-Car Video System

Digital Ally, Inc., which develops and sells advanced law enforcement video systems, speed guns and fleet event recorders, announced that all new orders of the DVM-500Plus In-Car Video System will now include the VoiceVault™ Advanced Wireless Microphone at no additional cost to the customer.

Previously only available with the DVM-750 In-Car Video System, the VoiceVault offers extended range, voice optimization and noise filtering, and fully digital audio transmission with true frequency hopping technology as well as the industry-first feature of recording audio notes and evidence onto On-Board Solid State Memory when the signal to the in-car video system is interrupted. The VoiceVault also records its own metadata to later link with recordings from the in-car video system for the same incidents when loaded into Digital Ally’s VideoManager software.

For more information, contact Digital Ally at 800-440-4947, sales@digitalallyinc.com or visit www.digitalallyinc.com.

About Digital Ally, Inc.

Digital Ally provides a complete line of digital in-car video systems; a waterproof digital video system that is modular to fit motorcycles, boats, or other motorized vehicle; compact worn or mounted video system; digital video flashlight; and LIDAR handheld speed enforcement gun.