I bet y'all are soooo jealous of me :-p 56K BEWARE!

[Sean T.]

The sculpture is outside... The EV1 is inside...

Inside the Walter B. Ford II Building... LMAO

And you guys feel free to copy the pics, just don't post them as your own. (don't take credit)

[Oval_Overload]

The Coast Down feature is covered in this video
Blast From The Past: A Look Back At The EV1 - CrazyMotion!

[MetroMPG]

Oval - thanks for posting that. Hadn't seen it before.

Now if I'd been designing a "coast down" button, it would be just that: neutral coasting. (More efficient to truly coast from speed down to zero than it is to drive up to the point where you can regen down to zero.)

It makes me wonder if the EV1 did not have light regen when releasing the accelerator, like Toyota's hybrids do, for example, or the Solectria Force EV.

[azraelswrd]

Anyone catch Frontline tonight? I missed the first hour because of work but they are focusing on alternative energy and global warming (I thought we're calling it climate change now?).

The 2nd hour spent 25 minutes on cars, alternative fuels, zero-emissions and the EV-1. I especially loved the part where the Big Three posed for pictures with their diesel-electric hybrids but behind the scenes were busy pushing SUVs and bigger trucks. Meanwhile... Toyota and Honda were in panic mode and scrambling to get gas-electrics out quickly.

(we all know what happened after that -- does The Big Three? Or do they still have their heads in the sand?)

But the real kick to the nuts was when Frontline was invited by GM to shoot some footage of the razzle dazzle savior Volt for a publicity shot. It couldn't even make it up a hill before stalling out. It had to be pushed into the recovery trailer. GM reps there told the reporter that they could just speed up the tape... wow... how come I don't get this kind of stuff from 60 minutes?

And yes, remembering what happened to the EV-1 still makes me cringe.

[i_am_socket]

Meanwhile the Big 3 are negotiating to become the Big 2.

Very awesome pics of the EV-1. The belly pan looked fairly modular with access panels and everything. Gives me some ideas for when I eventually get to mine (could be a while).