Interesting EV-1 experiment

That car is probably the coolest thing GM has ever built. Just imagine how many they could have sold during the summer of 2008 when gas peaked at $4.50/gal. What a tragedy.

 

Awh.
i'm glad I am getting to sit and ride in one soon.

 

yes tell more!!!

o the link is not working over here? did GM already send some lawer to this project?

 

Its the PriusChat effect. We overloaded their server. :madgrin:

 

damm priuschat effect.

 

ok i can open it.

OMG this is just amazing
and look at what bad conditions this guy is working in.
this EV-1 needs to be transfurred to a better place.....its special!! one of few..

 

I thought they crushed them all except for one intentionally disabled and put in a museum.

As far as the described project:

Hey folks, they're taking a pure EV and converting it into a gasoline car!!! THAT'S CRAP!!!!!

 

is it not a hybrid
because there is still a battey pack( bigger then needed for a hybrid.. so it wil be a plugin hybrid haha )
and maybe because of cost of that pack the student now uses a small generator?

 

I think they should get the dimensions of everything and start making EV1 kit cars.

 

Very cool! A second thanks to Bob Wilson for finding/posting it. :cheer2:

I am dismayed that the plan is to convert the car/mechanicals to a
serial EV. I believe that this simply is not the time for such an
insensitive treatment of this historic vehicle, and for the idea of real-
world capable electric vehicle propulsion.

With the Leaf, Think Ox, Mitsubishi ImiEV, Fisker, Tesla EV, etc. just
over the Horizon, now would be the time to put the vehicle back on
the road as a full EV with updated batteries and digital comtrol
systems. IMHO, doing so would send at least three messages:

1. To GM it would be a slap in the face. Justified, I believe. It would
say look at what you have forsaken, where would you and this country
be vis-a-vis energy independence and sustainability if you had not
been so short term goal/return oriented.

2. While the tooling for production of the car is long gone, the plans
and specs still exist... somewhere. Many of us don't see the Volt as a
"progress" at all. This car however with 100 mi range and 60+ MPH
would be very attractive.

3. This car, even as "out of date" as it is, could serve as strong
encouragement to the Detroit3 that with foresight, dedication, and
committed management they can be global industry leaders again.

 

Given the cost and capacity of today's available capacitors, I presume this is a gasoline-powered serial hybrid with little if any plug-in capacity. IOW, it is a gas-electric hybrid powered by gasoline, just as the Prius is, the only difference being that the Prius is a series-parallel hybrid and this is a series hybrid. That's why I say CRAP to them, for turning an EV into a gasoline-powered car!

 

I believe that in order to get the car in the first place, the university had to sign an agreement with GM that they would not return the car to its former powertrain. That's why the restorer is using capacitors instead of batteries.

 

Okay. But turning it into a gasoline-powered car is just disgusting.

And this reinforces what I've been saying about GM: Why would GM release a really superb electric car to a university on the condition that they not restore it to what it was?

My answer: GM is a criminal organization that, to promote its sales of gasoline through its oil holdings, does not want to allow an electric car on the road.

The criminals running GM want us to believe that they've changed; that they're going to manufacture a wonderful mostly-electric car. Yet they still will not allow this one remaining EV1 to be driven as an electric car. WHY NOT???

I'll tell you why not: Because they are determined to block electric transportation with every ounce of their putrid souls! That's why not. And the university is playing into their game by converting an EV1 electric car into a GASOLINE car!!!

And if they ever do sell a car under the Volt name plate it will be a car that in real-world usage, for the average driver, will end up burning more gasoline overall than a 2004-9 Prius. And probably more than a conventional (non-Hybrid) Honda Civic.

It is a national shame that the government did not follow the suggestion of Michael Moore, and convert GM into a maker of renewable-energy infrastructure. We own that vile company, and we could have turned it into something positive. The biggest mistake President Obama has made in his time as President was allowing GM to continue to function as the criminal corporation it has always been.

 

What he said.