As a current EV1 lessee, I can tell you a few things about this marvelous vehicle....
The car is sitting very high, obviously without batteries. The charge port is still there, but the cable from the charge port to the controller is cut at the charge port and at the controller, and removed. The cable on the back of the controller is also cut. That's the cable to the battery pack. Row 2, column 2 (roll 52-37) -- no, those bolts aren't for removing the batteries. You're looking at the AC condenser. The battery tunnel is T-shaped, between and behind the seats, much further back. The battery pack drops out the bottom of the car as a unit. The batteries are stacked two high. See http://www.hfmgv.org/museum/ev1.asp for pics of the EV1 GM donated to the Henry Ford Museum. You'll see cutaways there, showing the battery pack configuration. Also notice that their car is sitting much lower. It may have batteries in it... -- or sandbags... The connector near the 12V auxiliary battery is for the 60A Maxi fuse for the 12V system. That's an easy one. All that was there was the Maxi fuse itself, and a plastic cover. Removing that fuse disables the 12V system. The wires to the back of the rear-view mirror are just for the lights built into the mirror. No big deal. The EV1 shop manuals are similar to, but quite different from, the S10E shop manuals. I have both of the manual sets, EV1 and S10E. The EV1 manuals come from Saturn. The S10E manuals can be ordered from Helm. The arrangement of the manuals is different, although much of the information is the same. Buying the manuals (around $150, I think) would me much less expensive than trying to scan or copy them. They are huge, and two-sided. I just recently purchased the S10E shop manuals from Helm. I got the EV1 manuals from Saturn a long time ago. I'm not sure if they are still available. The number for ordering the EV1 shop manuals is 1-800-2SATURN. Although the motor and controller on the S10E are the same as the EV1, the battery pack mounting arrangement is completely different. The Panasonic PbA batteries are the same, though. Getting this car back in running order as an EV1 would require some parts (looks like cables, mostly) that would be hard to come by. You'd also need the batteries, the battery pack control module, and lots of battery mounting hardware and cables. No easy task, and I'm sure GM did their best to make it that way. At least the car was not sent to the crusher! I'm sure GM must have had somebody sign an agreement as to what they would or would not do with the car... Tom Dowling -----Original Message----- From: Seth Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 12:20 PM To: EV List Subject: EV1 Update #2 Hi everyone - Here is the WPI EV1 update #2. I had a much better look at it today and I took some photos. You can see them with captions here: http://members.fortunecity.com/electricityboy/ev1%20web%20page/ I sincerely apologize for all the popups. Anyway, here is what I found: The car is still in fabulous condition, absolutely gorgeous =) I took a photo of the shininess of the hood and now I have a nice upside-down image of the building across the road from the garage! There is a 4-wire connector on the front of the controller that was cut, which is identical to a cut-off 4 wire bundle on the bottom of the charging receptacle behind the front bumper. I have to assume this was where the power from the charger hooked up to the main high voltage system? There is a multiple-small-gauge wire quick disconnect hanging down directly to the left of the charge box but I don't see anything it would have plugged into. On the back of the controller there is another large-size quick disconnect which is not connected to anything - would this have been the battery connection? Behind the controller there is an Anderson-style connector which is again not connected to anything. There is also what looks like a data connector hanging there too. There are two wires on the back of the rear-view mirror that were cut. I had previously thought that some wiring may have been cut under the passenger side dash but it is all very much still intact. The car is so clean and nice I don't think it was ever driven. There is not even any windshield washer fluid in the reservoir or anything. Looks like this thing came off the assembly line and went right to the trash heap... The manuals I mentioned last time do exist but I have not seen them yet. I am going to try and get a hold of them soon. My guess is that they won't allow me to get a scanner anywhere near them though... We'll see. Any thoughts anyone? Ideas on what it would take to get this thing going? Seth -- QUESTION INTERNAL COMBUSTION http://members.fortunecity.com/electricityboy http://www.austinev.org/evalbum/387.html
