Type 1
Built in
Superior Value
We know your needs can vary, which is why the only way you’ll find two ambulances alike is if you ask for them. We design our Type 1 ambulances to be fully customized to cater to the unique needs of your department and crews. Our team has an unwavering commitment to deliver one of the most dependable emergency vehicles on the road today, made to protect and serve time and again.
Chassis/Model Specs
Standards
Body
- C/S upper windows: Standard, tint fixed
- Drip rails: Bright finish aluminum
- Fasteners: AVK nutserts for attachment of door panels
- Fender flares: Aluminum
- Flooring: Choice of optional colors
- Fuel fill: Aluminum housing behind rear axle with drain
- Headliner: One piece front to rear, gloss white
- Paint: OEM white industry match
- Pass-thru windows: Sliding Lexan with bellows
- Patient floor: Plywood, single piece, full length and width, insulated
- Rear bumper: Tread plate with center flip-up aggressive step section
- Rear upper windows: Standard, tint fixed
- Reflectors: Six total, four rear and two front
- Roll-up flooring: 3″ recessed
- Skirt rails: Diamond plate
- Body striping: Single belt (optional)
- Undercoat: Per QVM industry guidelines
- Upholstery: Choice of optional colors
- Urea full: Aluminum housing (diesel engine and where applicable)
Doors
- Door hold opens: Grabbers on rear doors
- Handles: Stainless steel tube with antimicrobial powder coating on all entry doors
Seating
- Attendant seat: Captain’s chair on storage box with Per4Max® seat belt
- Cot mount: Stryker or Ferno
- CPR seat: Streetside with Per4Max seat belt and telemetry area
Compartments
- Backboard storage: Right rear compartment, vertical
- License plate holder: Recessed in rear kick plate with LED light
- Lining: Diamond plate
- Oxygen cylinder rack: Aluminum rack, LF compartment
- Shelves: One total aluminum in exterior compartment
- Spare tire: Shipped loose
- Straps: One total in right rear compartment for backboards
Cabinets/countertops
- Flooring: Exterior-grade plywood or composite
- Action area cabinet: Laminated
- Cabinet construction: Furniture-grade plywood, aluminum cabinets on certain models
- Laminate: Choice of optional colors
- Polycarbonate: Gray tinted or clear with full handles
- RF cabinet: Wood doors with inside/outside access
Electrical system
- Traumahawk™ RMR electrical
- AEV Telematics AVI System
- 12V DC outlets: Two power-point outlets
- 125V AC outlets: Two total, one curbside, one RF-ALS
- Batteries: Two under hood OEM
- Battery switch: Cole Hersee® 2484-16
- Co-ax cable: One tagged at both ends
- Console: Wood between cab seats covered with EZ-Grip, some models with aluminum console black coated
- Electrical cabinet: Behind attendant’s seat
- Electrical system: Printed circuit boards with LED diagnostics
- Oxygen outlets: Two total, Ohio style
- Shoreline: Inlet located on streetside behind M1 compartment
- Wiring: Color, name and number coded with as-built schematics on USB drive
Emergency alert
- Back-up alarm
- Siren: Whelen® WS-295
- Siren speaker: Dual 100 watt
Lighting
- Action area light: 12V DC LED
- Clearance lights: LED on front and rear with recessed corner lights with ICC and warning functions
- Dome lights: LED for both streetside and curbside
- Indicator lights: Door, compartment ajar, low voltage and battery on cab console
- Load lights: Two Whelen on rear
- Scene lights: Two Whelen on each side
- Side marker lights: On sides of body
- Taillights: Triple light cluster on rear
- Third brake lights: Mounted over rear doors
- Warning package lights: Whelen perimeter lighting, options for other vendors
Environmental
- Heat-A/C: Ceiling ducted
- Insulation: Reflectix circumferential package
Safety
- Antimicrobial recessed overhead grab rail
- Complies with all SAE standards
- Seat belt harness system: Per4Max
- Crash-tested modular body
- Emergency entry door release latches
Optional Features
Optional Product Features:
- Roof-mounted solar panels
- Fuel-fired hydronic or airtronic interior heaters
- Refrigerator storage
- Narcotic lock boxes
- All wheel drive chassis models on some brands
- Extended wheelbase chassis designs, dual rear wheel, super single Sprinters, integrated additional cabinets
- Additional LED lightbars
- Traffic clearing controls, communication
- AEV AVI telematics
- Recessed streetside wall section for bariatric cot width clearances
Optional Upgrade Items:
- Aluminum cabinetry
- Idle mitigation system from ZeroRPM®
- Fuel-fired generator systems
- Bariatric rear lift platform systems
- Lighted door handles
- Blackout package
- Arctic Wedge™ condenser
- Angled door handles
- Wide aisle
- Solid-surface counters
- LED skirt rail lights
- Stainless steel door panels
- Front replacement bumpers, brush guards
- Front lighted guide poles
Questions? Talk to Us.
Ask the AEV ambulance experts. Looking for more information on AEV’s one-of-a-kind ambulances? Whether you have a general question about our products or need technical advice on an existing vehicle, the AEV team is on standby with the answer. If you’re looking to build a custom vehicle, contact us to start a conversation about your unique requirements and how AEV can meet them.