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Carbon Motors picks Connersville, IN for new HQ, E7 police car production

Carbon Motors, soon-to-be makers of a dedicated police cruiser known as the E7, has finally chosen a new place to call home: Connersville, Indiana. Taking up residence in an abandoned plant from auto parts supplier Visteon, Carbon intends on investing $350 million to renovate the 1.8 million square-foot facility that it plans to use for production of the E7. The company could bring 1,500 new jobs to the area and plans to have the E7 into production by 2012. Now that a production plant has been procured – and assuming there aren't any ... Read more →

Carbon Motors reports 10,000 pre-orders for diesel-powered E7 police car Jeremy Korzeniewski

- As it turns out, there's quite a backlog of pent up demand for a purpose-built police car. Who knew that law enforcement officers were so fed up with their current fleet of Ford Crown Vics, ...

Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy John McElroy

A NEW KIND OF COP CAR, A NEW KIND OF BUSINESS MODEL Autoblog has followed the developments at Carbon Motors ever since the start-up unveiled its new police cruiser a year and a half ago. And while the ...

Carbon E7 police car headed for duty in 2012 Dan Roth

The Carbon Motors E7, a purpose-built car for law enforcement, is continuing to march toward reality. Carbon Motors has targeted 2012 as the start of production, and cars can already be ...

Carbon Motors releases first video of E7 cop car and in-car gadgets Jeremy Korzeniewski

Law enforcement officers have more reasons to be excited with Carbon Motors' release of a few more images and a video of its purpose-built Police car. The E7, as it is currently known, looks to be ...

Carbon Motors releases real shots of purpose-built E7 police car 1 year ago on Autoblog

We haven't heard a peep from Carbon Motors in a very long time, but that doesn't mean the company hasn't been hard at work on its purpose-built E7 police car concept. To prove that it's moving forward, the automaker-to-be has just released two shots of a real E7. What's more, the company will ...

Calling all cars: Carbon Motors purpose-built police car 2 years ago on Autoblog

Checker did it with taxi cabs a generation and a half ago, but since then, purpose-built working cars haven't been produced in mass quantities. Carbon Motors thinks it's about time the fuzz get their own purpose-built ride, instead of being forced to modify a civilian car. Law enforcement agencies ...






Autoblog Podcast #152: Paukert Enhanced!

Eddie Alterman wades in with Sam, Chris, Dan, and Jonny to talk about SEMA and other recent events.

 
 

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