An EV1 Experience 09 Driveby

What it looked like as it drove passed. An EV1 Experience is video I took while renting a GM EV1 from evrentals at LAX in 2002 before they were crushed. http://www.seattleeva.org/wiki/GM_EV1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1

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• EV1
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• battery
• electric
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[lickdamonkey]

If i was in an alley with a BIG Oil executive...Let's just say...He wouldn't make it out alive...Or i would just torture him for a few hours...then maybe he will get off his high horse and bring the EV1 back

[terrorist420x]

Mass production of EVs would bring battery costs down. UC Davis quotes $225/kWh for automotive mass production of large format NiMH batteries. If anything, a plug-in hyberid would be more expensive to make than a pure EV due to two propulsion systems and a need for a battery that can handle far more discharge cycles than a pure EV would need to last long enough for consumers.

[kirbysawyer25]

I want this video on my X510 Pike unit.

[blaircolon36]

Your video is popular on El Salvador

[emforty2]

GM is not serious about electric cars as it sold the battery patent to the OIL COMPANY

[sexyboi142]

GM set the car up for failure and it was the exact oppisite of failure. the car succeded and when more people wanted the car GM had to take it back and destroy them and say that the car didnt have popular demand when it fact it did

[D0li0]

At this point there is no "Regular PHEV", my converted Prius is one of the closest simply because it exists already, there are mixed opinions on just what the "Ideal" PHEV config is. I prefer series because it forces the vehicle be built as a fully capable EV. While Dr. Andy Frank (Sorta a PHEV god) seems to prefer various parallel configurations because there are fewer conversion losses if when you do burn gas you simply put it straight to the road.

[LovePontiac]

The Volt isn't a regular Plug in hybrid. It ONLY has electric drive. The engine is there just to make more electricity. Doing that not only allows you to use fewer batteries to save money, but it also gives you a massive range.

The Volt has all the advantages of an EV, but is cheaper and bigger than a regular EV with a much larger range. It's only disadvanatge is it uses SOME gas SOME of the time. A lot of people wont ever have to use any.

[terrorist420x]

Further, read a study titled "Evaluation of Electric Vehicle Production and Operating Costs" by Cuenca and Gaines. Sub $30000 EVs were possible in the 1990s with ranges exceeding 100 miles per charge and no performance penalty. It's about production volume. By now, additional cost penalty of a $30000 EV over equivalent $22000 gasoline car would've been recouped in gas and maintenance savings multiple times, factoring periodic battery replacement.

[LovePontiac]

Idiot. The average American drives less than 30 miles in a day. Adding more batteries would increase the price of the car. If you happen to need more than that, that's what the gas generator is for. BTW it gets 50 MPG with the engine on (real life, not EPA)... that's better than a prius.