A new car company that makes futuristic police cars is looking at Charlotte NC for their new home, the Business Journal says. The idea is to take some of the people in the Charlotte area who have been idled by the downturn in the motor sports industry around Charlotte Motor Speedway and put their skills use building the police cars of the future.

Carbon Motors is a homeland security company, they say, whose goal is to build, service and recycle the world's first purpose built police car. The law enforcement equipment will be fully integrated into the car instead of bolted onto a current model like they are now. 

They are just starting this venture, and they are looking for a home. They have designed the vehicle, but have not chosen a location for the plant. The executive team looks like a bunch of auto industry executives. 

One of the big selling points of the car, they say, is the fact that it will run on clean diesel get 40% more miles to the gallon, which they say will save law enforcement agencies money. They also say that their vehicles will come with all their law enforcement equipment already on them so the agencies don't have to go out into the world to find and install their own equipment and take it off when they finally sell the vehicle at the end of its service life.

Interesting idea.