THE emergency services ready for anything to provide effective emergency medical care. Therefore, you can usually see, for example, SMUR (Emergency Medical and Resuscitation Service, armed wing of SAMU) use vehicles specially designed for speed and agility. Volvo XC70, Mitsubishi Pajero, Land-Rover Discovery. These elections are determined by tenders announced by the SAMU services. Depending on the city or department. Similarly, organ transport or emergency transplant services should have high-speed vehicles for missions less than 250-300 kilometers. This principle tender same for services local police. But also for firemen when it comes to updating the rolling stock fleet.

Electricity for communal economy

WITH switch to fully electric, we see more and more models of this type on the equipment of municipal brigades. IS Skoda Enyaq iV in Saint-Maurice (94). with Dacia Spring in Quissac (30). Or even Hyundai KONA Electric in Saint-Pré (95). This time it’s SMUR’s turn to look at electrical technology. An experiment is currently being conducted on the Volkswagen ID. Buzz! The car will cross the west of France for several months, for the SAMU teams to experience it in real conditions. It will be prescribed and used in particular by the University Hospital Centers (CHU) of Nantes, Rennes and then Limoges. If the experiment is successful, we will see how Volkswagen’s new electric darling will soon cross all the roads of France.

It will soon be tested everywhere in France

It really is equipment supplier Gruau, which is at the origins of its transformation. Assembled in Hannover, Germany, it was converted into an ambulance by Laneri, a coachbuilder specializing in (among other things) emergency vehicles and a subsidiary of the Gruau group. The latter, based in Mayen (53), is the source of most of the emergency vehicles stationed in France.. Police, firefighters, SAMU: all pass the pool of Gruau’s many subsidiaries, Labbe, Sanicard and Petit-Picot in particular. If this experiment bears fruit, the Mayenne group will be the first in France to use the electric Combi for medical needs. with 416 kilometers of autonomy, the ID.Buzz is also sufficient for daily field missions. This will be tested in the coming weeks and months Lyon, Marseille, Reims, Montpellier, Dijon or Reims…

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