EV1
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 (though they would possibly rather none exist in any capacity). They let a few universities get a hold of some to use as test platforms and will only let them run in hybrid orientations, apparently.
This car is mostly functional, and will get some sort of small motorcycle engine tucked in that will kick in on the highway to be able to cruise indefinitely (well, with enough gas that is).
You can see that quite a crowd came out in freezing weather to see this car. I felt like we were having to clandestinely come see the car in an alley.
Click any of the images above or this link to see all of my EV1 photos on flickr.
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.
(for some reason the first turbojet video address got changed)
February 18th, 2009 at 8:05 am
Can you provide more information on this?
February 18th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
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
February 18th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
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.