This Ambulance Car Is ALL Electric - And The Benefits To The Community Are MASSIVE
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- In order to minimize the effects of anthropogenic climate change and to build a greener, more sustainable future, we need more than just personal forms of transportation to become electric: we need electrification of all vehicle fleets.
In Vancouver, British Columbia, BC Emergency Health Services has taken that task on head on, developing alternatives to gasoline-powered medical response vehicles like fire trucks and ambulances, especially when a significant number of calls to 911 don't require patient transportation.
And at Fully Charged Live in Vancouver two weeks ago, Kate was able to talk to José Font, Senior Business Analyst, for Logistics and Transportation Operations at BC Emergency Health Services about both the agency's all-electric ambulance car and their fleet of cycle paramedics.
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BC Emergency Health Services: www.bcehs.ca/
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Presenter: Kate Walton-Elliott
Guest: José Font, Senior Business Analyst, Logistics & Transportation Operations, BC Emergency Health Services.
Audio: Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield
Editor, Colorist: Michael Horton
Art and Animation: Erin Carlie
Producer: Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield
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Great to see EVs being mainstreamed more and more.
interesting to see that public services like that switch to electric modes of transportation
Good to see. Chargers at the hospital is a smart infrastructure build out move. Thanks for sharing.
Actually met Nikki, Kate and Jose at the Vancouver fully charged live show. Spoke to Jose at length about the operational aspects and seamless functionality of the vehicle with its integrated software and hardware. Definitely a game changer for first responders. This vehicle is but one small step that BC has committed to in helping change the workplace, and only for the better.
"I'm having chest pains! Please send a Mustang EV!"
A lot of hatchbacks and stationwagons are ambos here in Australia. They are painted up in the same colour and lights.
Show up, stabilize, evaluate and if needed call for transport. Why take someone to a hospital if they just need some quick in-home help.
5:52 using car's display for dispatch software
That was impressive
Rule 1: Get to the patient.
Next time, b-roll of the vehicle early and often. TE is the best!
Ford Transit Vans are the main vehicle used as ambulances here in South Australia, as I am sure they are used in many places, so I hope it is only a matter of (short) time before e-Transit ambulances start appearing on our roads. 😁👍
Seems like a good candidate for Arcimoto Rapid Responder
Interesting to show the Mustang Mach E, which is not set up for patient transport, outside an ER.
As explained - patients don't always need transport!
This would be an appropriate type vehicle for a lot of outlying departments, where they aren’t transporting patients anyway.
@transportevolved which means you need 2 vehicles instead of 1.
@@linusa2996Over here in Germany, cars are used to transport emergency doctors ("Notartzt"). Most emergency vehicle uses don't need a doctor, so the doctor has their own emergency vehicle to go to where they're currently needed, for example when the patient needs serious emergency intervention before they can be transported or a major accident scene.
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Great interview! Can't wait to see a real ambulance EV, one that takes patients to the hospital.
Seems like a Ford E-Transit would be ideal for that...
@@Kevin_M_Hall Indeed. We already use ICE Transits, so it should not be too long. 😊
Ambulance cars are real ambulances!
@@transportevolved Do you mean as opposed to Ambulance Planes, Ambulance Boats, Ambulance Space Shuttles, etc? 😁
Oh you...@@martythemartian99
This is an impressive application. Got to see in person!
I love Kate, she's funny!
Thank you
Absolutely fascinating! Thank you for sharing. Keep up the great work!
the 2Spirit lgbtq+CVTIDEQS people must wear those flags 24/7
Saving lives and protecting health from harmful emissions, bonus!
Thank you.
ER nurse IRL, I would be dropping that constantly!
In my country in Europe it’s not an uncommon thing. Also police is driving electric….
Payback is 2 YEARS!!
Amazing 😊
Looks like a nice ride.... I would drive it :)
🦒A giraffe for agorythm's sake.
Bravo, it's rediculous to send a ladder truck out for a medical emergency!
Sometimes firefighters arrive to assist the paramedics with carrying a heavy patient or bringing a patient up or down stairs.
@@kevinpolito1529 Fair enough!
In *some* instances for sure, but the largest of fire trucks also requires MORE people (often two to drive). Sending a car ahead of time is faster, more efficient, and as José notes, the drivers of these vehicles are more highly trained and thus can carry out more immediate care to stabilize a patient before/if transportation is required :) - Nikki.
In this area, firefighters are medical first responders, and many are paramedics. Our engines have the first-in equipment we need to respond to a medical call.
@@transportevolvedright so when this car shows up and then they find the need transport, you waste more time getting an actual ambulance. Just send a van, it will be cheaper to purchase convert and operate
i would think a mache would make a terrible ambulance.
And my hammer makes a lousy screwdriver.
Did you listen to the video? They already were sending SUVs to appropriate calls, this is electrifying that option.
Sadly, the majority of people who complain in comments usually don't watch the videos first...
and why does the US send everything? because people are stupid, especially in an emergency, especially in a medical emergency. even at the best of times asking a civilian to diagnose a medical emergency so you send the right personnel is just silly.@@keeperMLT
i did watch it and he explained their 12 levels of ambulance/personnel. in the US they send everything because the person making a 911 call is panicking and assuming they know what the emergency is probably has less than a 50% rate.@@transportevolved
Keep Evolving Kate!!!
Fabulous to see!
Excellent
we need to see more of this, I always see fire trucks and am amazed at how slow they are,
So all the hardcore drugs they deal with are carefully controlled, except the back of this ambulance was open whilst everyone was poking around.
It’s either out of the rig or locked inside it.
Pretty sure they didn't have controlled substances available on the show floor... - Nikki.
You're heads just something to warm your hat on isn't it?
Too bad its not a tesla
A Model X would probably be pretty handy for this use case.
Why?
I believe there have been some used in Europe.
I live on Vancouver Island and I think that is a bad idea. EVs are very popular here and Tesla dominates the market. You can't go anywhere without seeing 10-20 Tesla's. Mustangs have historically been used by Police and other Provincial services and would be an easy to identify vehicle in an emergency. A Tesla would blur into the sea of other Tesla's being they all look the same. I'm not being hyperbolic at the amount of Tesla's either. "The Victoria EV Association, an 1,800-member club promoting the use of electric vehicles, estimates there are 4,000 electric vehicles on the Island - including about 3,000 Teslas." No one is going to give way for a Tesla, period. Lovely cars, however, not good for emergencies.
@@tanyavs1 an emergency Tesla would have appropriate emergency lights running, as such anyone not yielding to the vehicle would be crazy.
Piled higher and deeper to keep the lie alive
Pardon?
@@transportevolved The gentleman (?) is obviously a petrolhead and worried about the future.
I love how smiling and happy he was to talk about highly regulated controlled substances :D
@GermanBionic 🤝 @🏥🌏