The NYPD is launching sleek, fast electric patrol cars for the first time

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For Larry Celona i Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

April 24, 2023 | 2:23 p.m

NYPD Blue is getting greener.

New York’s Finest has launched a fleet of all-electric patrol cars for the first time, with half a dozen sleek and loaded Ford Mustang Mach-E GTs already patrolling the Big Apple.

In all, the NYPD has purchased 100 of the marked muscle cars that will eventually roll across the five boroughs.

“Our officers are tested every day and we know they are up to the challenge,” First Deputy Commissioner Edward Caban told The Post. “We need to ensure that the vehicles they drive can also hold up.

“Public safety is more than just protecting our streets,” Caban added. “It’s protecting our environment, and this pilot program is in line with the mayor [Eric] Adams’ mandate to significantly reduce harmful emissions across the municipal fleet.”

The department already has hybrid and alternative fuel vehicles on the road, but the new cars are the first all-electric vehicles in the NYPD’s fleet, officials said.

Mustangs are now the fastest vehicles in the force’s arsenal and can go from 0 to 60 mph in less than four seconds.

Its low center of gravity reduces the possibility of overturning and allows improved maneuverability, with heavy-duty brakes.

The new cars aren’t likely to run out of juice on the job, either: they have a range of 270 miles on a fully charged battery, with the city working to add charging stations across the Big Apple.

The response from city police has been positive so far, the department said.

So far, 10 precincts have been using the vehicles, including Central Park, along with precincts in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, with each command using at least two cars each.

Adams has been looking to make the five boroughs more environmentally friendly by reducing gas-guzzling vehicles in the city’s fleet. Last year, the city also announced a $4 billion schools plan to ditch oil-burning furnaces in city schools and replace them with cleaner electric models.

The Post reported last year that the city spent more than $108 million in the previous year on fuel to speed up the nation’s largest fleet of municipal vehicles, a 58 percent increase over the previous year.