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However, the sting is in the tail, and even ambulance providers with a low busyness will have to think about calamities such as prolonged power outages. We encourage decision makers to insert their own historical incident data into ELASPY and assess how transitioning from diesel to electric ambulance vehicles would affect response times in their region. 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