Going through my stack of EVDL posts from last week, this title stood out...
"NEWS FLASH - EV-1 L I V E S"
When GM pulled the plug on the EV1 and crushed the fleet, they crippled about 40-50 vehicles (stripped them of critical components like batteries & control electronics) and donated them to universities and museums.
But what GM couldn't & didn't crush was a small number of privately owned & titled S10EV pickup trucks, which used the same components as the EV1 (the trucks were even configured as front wheel drive, like the car):
A university professor, in collaboration with several others including people who operated "
EV Bones" (a private company that restored bought, sold & maintained S10EVs -and so had spares & expertise), have got one of the crippled/donated EV1s working again:
More:
Quote:
### THE GENERAL MOTORS EV-1 LIVES!
an ATC eNews EXTRA!
12/11/07
RENO, NV -- Jaws hit the pavement at the Renewable L.A. event
<http://www.renewablela.org> in Van Nuys, California, last Saturday
when an EV-1 made an appearance -- and it arrived operating under its
own power! <http://tinyurl.com/2xp7jo>
The EV-1 was made operational by a group working under Mike Seal
<http://tinyurl.com/2hbajz> & <http://blogs.edmunds.com/.eea11e9>. Mike
is professor emeritus and founder of the Vehicle Research Institute
<http://vri.etec.wwu.edu/> at Western Washington University in
Bellingham.
And then on Monday my jaw hit the floor when Alternative Transportation
Club (ATC) member, Bill Brinsmead, called and told me an EV-1 was on
its way to Reno! I don't have the whole story, but it seems that Bill,
being in the university business, was aware of the project to rebuild
the EV-1 so he graciously offered to donate an EV-1 "gas-pump" style
inductive (paddle) charger he owns to professor Seal's group.
Unfortunately, there was no time to contact anyone about the EV-1's
arrival in Reno on Monday. We did not know exactly when it would be
here or for how long and I was committed to other business.
However, my other commitments placed me near Bill's home where I was
told professor Seal would be picking up the charger. So I took a chance
and dropped by. To my surprise and delight I found the EV-1 parked in
front of Bill's house! (It was actually on a trailer being towed by a
motorhome.) Bill was not home as he and the professor, et al, had gone
to lunch.
In any case, the pictures I shot are located at the following URL:
http://electricnevada.org/pics/ev1
And here's another video of the restored EV-1 at Saturday's event in
L.A.:
Be well,
Bob
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