"Achtung" (jckix)
09/12/2019 at 21:22 • Filed to: EV1, GM, electric, cincinnati, UC
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"Achtung" (jckix)
09/12/2019 at 21:22 • Filed to: EV1, GM, electric, cincinnati, UC | 10
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I’m in the DAAP program at UC. Today a trailer showed up with an EV1. Out of nowhere. I was geeked.
Apparently the Industrial Design students (I’m in ID but a first year so I assume I won’t have the privilege of working with the car) will be tearing it down and re-engineering it. Super fucking cool.
tMore information upon closer inspection: I personally believe this car may have never been leased out by GM. The tires have a DOT code that indicates 1995. Super good tread though. Also no typical rock chips that go with normal driving. Probably never properly driven.
The VIN shows no activity since being built in
1997. And the EV1 VIN wiki says this car was last spotted at the Bay Area EV1 rollout event in SF on 3/31/1998. So. My thought is GM owned until given up to a museum of some sort, and then somehow
given to UC.
HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute
> Achtung
09/12/2019 at 21:32 |
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Wow, that’s absurdly cool. I wish my school shop had weird cars like an EV1, so far we get the usual Ford/GM/DaimlerChrysler lemon, clapped out Civic and other student cars. Though in a dusty corner, there is a manual Foxbody GT Convertible....but I’m told "we don’t speak about that” :(
dogisbadob
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09/12/2019 at 21:35 |
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GM killed the electric car
SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
> Achtung
09/12/2019 at 21:46 |
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Isn’t the EV lore that GM claimed all those back and chopped ‘em into component atoms so they’d never see the world again?
And, yet, look at you engineers in The Ohio Riviera! Congratulations. That looks like fun.
DipodomysDeserti
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09/12/2019 at 21:48 |
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[ This space reserved for a For Sweden joke about the University of Cincinnati.]
Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> Achtung
09/12/2019 at 21:48 |
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I thought they crushed all of these.
Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
> Achtung
09/12/2019 at 21:49 |
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Can you redesign the DAAP Building instead?
mazda616
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09/12/2019 at 22:07 |
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That’s so cool! Does it have any power train bits left at all?
Bandit
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09/12/2019 at 22:23 |
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GM still has one in their heritage collection that drives around, only has like 150 miles on it though. They apparently have to go around and borrow parts out of university and museum vehicles to keep it on the road. T he charging paddle is such a neat idea too, haven’t ever seen something like it before.
someassemblyrequired
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09/12/2019 at 22:26 |
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Super jealous, I was so sure they were the future when they first arrived. It’s good to see a few more crawl out of the woodwork. Anyways, here’s some period stuff which might be of interest. GM promo video:
Here’s a roadtest
from Popular Science from
when they first came out:
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> someassemblyrequired
09/12/2019 at 22:33 |
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I had seen the documentary and promo videos quite a while ago . My roommates had no idea why I was so excited over the car. We watched the 6 min summary doc and that promo video in our dorm and they were totally into it. Just took a trip with them to visit it in the DAAP building again lol.
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> Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
09/12/2019 at 22:34 |
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I wish
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> Eric @ opposite-lock.com
09/12/2019 at 22:35 |
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All but about 40
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> mazda616
09/12/2019 at 22:42 |
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My thought is no. Wikipedia claims they disabled all of them except the one in the Smithsonian. Also the front suspension is ridiculously high. I don’t think there’s anything in there.
nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
> Achtung
09/12/2019 at 22:58 |
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“0-60 in 90 seconds" I guess ludicrous mode wasn't an idea yet.
WookieeOfTheYear
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09/12/2019 at 23:25 |
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Go Bearcats!
CRider
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09/12/2019 at 23:50 |
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Put... Put a LS in it?
MrDakka
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09/13/2019 at 01:17 |
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Shaped like a suppository for increased ease of insertion drag reduction
Forrest
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09/13/2019 at 01:51 |
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There used to be an EV1 (I think it was red) in an obscure corner of UC Berkeley called the Richmond Field Station. It was covered in dirt and spider webs and it had 4 flat tires. I think it was parked outside the building where the Formula SAE team builds their cars. I haven’t been over to that building in ages, so I don’t know if the EV1 is still there. I wonder if that EV1 has moved to Ohio.
themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
> Achtung
09/13/2019 at 03:07 |
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I went to Kettering University (formerly called “Genera Motors Institute”) and I am 99% sure we had at least two completed EV1s and the spare parts to build another half of one. Our professors were former engineers and scientists for the auto industry and often collected parts from the cars they helped develop. We joked if you had a domestic car and autozone didn’t have the part you needed, just ask around - chances are the professor that designed it kept a few as mementos.
carcrazydan738
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09/13/2019 at 08:42 |
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These kind of remind me of 1st gen. Saturns only better!
pip bip - choose Corrour
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09/13/2019 at 08:52 |
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who stole the mirrors?
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> pip bip - choose Corrour
09/13/2019 at 09:31 |
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No clue. They were off when it rolled off the trailer.
CaptDale - is secretly British
> Achtung
09/14/2019 at 14:56 |
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Wow that is awesome!