I shot a bunch of pictures of one of the cooler cars out there, one which I think holds a lot of historic significance, a GM EV1. GM gave a few remaining EV1s to universities to use as test platforms, only allowed to be run in hybrid scenarios.
This car is mostly functional, and will get a small motorcycle engine tucked in that will kick in on the highway to be able to cruise indefinitely.
Quite a crowd came out in freezing weather to see this car.
I don’t know which university this is below, but it feels a bit crazy to be hacking apart 1 of about 40 vehicles in existence. The youtube post says that they have theirs running as a turbojet/electric hybrid.
Can you provide more information on this?
Here’s some more information from the Seattle Electric Vehicle Association:
http://www.seattleeva.org/wiki/GM_EV1_WWU_Resurrection
Let me know if there is something specific that you wanted to learn about and I can either give you that information or ask somebody else that might know more about that particular aspect.
I’ve got some video of that night as well. I’ve got to put that up some time soon.
Ian
Found a couple more of that “ejet” EV1. You can’t see anything in here, but it makes me pretty curious to see what’s going on.