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Wow! THANKS for posting those.
Gotta love the flat tire. There are pics I haven't seen before - like the belly pan & details of the interior. Good stuff! |
Kewl! Think it still works? Didn't look like a shell but a complete car
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It's probably complete except for the ECU, they took them out of all the remaining cars they donated to Academia to avoid the embarassment of people driving them on the road :(
There is one or two working ones left tho'... That Doco, [Who killed the Electric Car] makes me SO mad at GM :mad: |
Not sure where the ECU is, but there were a few plugs hanging down at my feet near the door hinge.
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Thanks Sean!
Now why the hell can't GM just start building these again?! That is just frickin' ridiculous! Who knows -- it might just save 'em from oblivion; and it is probably better than the Volt... Sheesh. |
I just find it sad that we had all this tech back in the 90s and now it seems like its oh so hard to redo it now almost 20 years later
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Great pics, Thanks. Hated the documentary on those so SaD.
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Stunning, and you got to sit INSIDE!!!!!! The (front/rear?) axle picture is cool. I get the feeling it has low miles. Maybe it's always been a display/show car. I'm happy that it at least escaped the crusher. CarloSW2 |
Indeed, I am jealous! Mind if I use some of these pictures for a blog post?
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Very cool pictures indeed!!!
It blows my mind to think about how many thousands of these would be on the road today if GM had just stuck it out there for drivers to actually purchase :( By now the technology, batteries, capacity, etc... would have been awesome if they would have pulled their heads out of the sand and listened to what folks were wanting even back then. |
Carlo, it's a pic from behind at the rear axle. I know that there used to be a red EV1 in the Detroit Science Center and I don't think it's there anymore... so this might be the same one??? I haven't been to the Science Center in quite a few years.
SVOboy, feel free to use the pics :) I have never seen pics like this, so I figure not many other people have either. The students that walk past it every day probably don't even know how cool it is... sitting in the corner all sad and depressed. |
Can we sneak in and pump up those tires!?
The rolling resistance to too much to stand!!!! |
You don't even have to sneak in. It's a college building full of classrooms and you can just walk right in. There is a security person at the front desk usually but they never bothered me... Another security guy saw me taking pics and asked me if I wanted to see the engine... I was like... uh... YEAH!
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That's it. Now I need a photo of me in an EV1 to go with the photo of me in a Tesla.
http://gallery.me.com/benhdvideoguy/...G_0006/web.jpg I have heard there's one in a Museum in Madison, WI. That's only an hour from me. (An EV1, not a Tesla.) |
Sean, those are some of the best EV1 pics I have ever seen!
Thanks, Dude! O_O [oval_overload] |
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Had a chuckle over the patron's name on the wall behind the car. :)
http://ecomodder.com/forum/attachmen...1&d=1224511188 |
This makes me happy to see one still intact and not part of my ToGo mug thats red :o It also makes me very sad to see it in such deplorable condition. Did you see how dirty the interior was and how bad the paint looked. If I was anywhere near there I would clean the darn thing for free! If I get to sit inside and see the electronics of course, with camera.:p
edit: I'm copying these pics if its alright I probably won't use them for anything other than to make me sad this car is dead. |
I doubt the tire would inflate it probably has a flat spot. Anybody else notice the coastdown button on the gear shift??? Would that be for a neutral coast? I thought that was something that happened whenever you released the accelerator.:confused:
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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) |
The Coast Down feature is covered in this video
Blast From The Past: A Look Back At The EV1 - CrazyMotion! |
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. |
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. :( |
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). |
I feel the need to bump this thread.
The EV1 would have about the weight of a geo metro if the battery pack was removed (1310lb for the lead acid,) if some form of fuel cell that could take gasoline and non fossil fuels was used, the EV1 would be quite sporty. fueleconomy.gov EV1 page |
I would love to see someone take a Metro XFi base and build an EV1 body around it. It's a piece of aerodynamic beauty.
And yes, very depressing to think about EV1's story. To think of how the Prius kicked Big Three into doing more hybrids, what if they had kept the EV1 project going? They'd be lightyears ahead of Asia. |
There was a CNG powered version: General Motors EV1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
EDIT: Right below that is a hybrid that sounds like the Chevy volt. The EV1 had a Cd of .195 with side mirrors. Chevy volt is something like .28. Chevy volt has nothing on this beauty. |
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