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Dr. EVS
GM actually let several EV1s survive crushing, but they ripped the guts out first. They gave them to museums and universities. This is probably an empty shell if it is still around.
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...The response I got from Google a long while back is that, for liability reasons, they consider the time stamp on the photos to be confidential. Makes no sense to me, but there you go...
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Only 40 EV1s were preserved, according to Jill Banaszynski, manager of the EV1 donation program, to be given to museums and institutions or kept for research by GM. Of these, the only fully intact EV1, complete with its (now inert) lead acid battery, is today part of the {Smithsonian} National Museum of American History collection. “Our requirement is that all the vehicles in the museum have to be complete models,” says Withuhn. “We may remove parts, but we have to know that if we wanted to drive a car, or a steam engine, we could—not that we would. It’s a question of authenticity.”
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...We have an EV1 floating around here but it has been gutted out. Basically all that is left is the body and that is being used for hydrogen propulsion research, probably as a fuel cell test vehicle. The battery pack and charger were removed.
The electric motor was still inside. Interesting to note was it used the orange DexCool for coolant and it had a radiator.
The interior looked like an astronauts dream with far too many buttons for the climate control (heat pump with cabin preconditioning). The funky dash also looked a bit like the 'dashboard' in the HyWire concept I got to sit in (but not drive) earlier...
http://ludb.clui.org/ex/i/CA3430/...
Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS)
ITS is the oldest and largest of five transportation research groups on the campus. It has supported transportation research at UC Berkeley since 1948. About 50 faculty members, 50 staff researchers and more than 100 graduate students take part in this multidisciplinary program. ITS is home to (list only includes units with a presence at RFS):
- Partnership for Advanced Traffic and Highways (PATH)
The PATH program researches and evaluates new technologies that can reduce congestion in California's surface transportation system and make it safer. It supports faculty-directed research at 14 universities in California and the rest of the country including research by full-time staff at RFS.- Technology Transfer Program
Tech Transfer works as a program to help train some of the 3,000 engineers and planners recently hired by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). Overall, Tech Transfer has trained more than 4,000 professionals around the state and has taken part in evaluating traffic safety engineering and enforcement programs in 20 California communities.- Pavement Research Center (PRC)
The Pavement Research Center conducts research on ways to improve pavement structures, materials and technologies, often in partnership with other academic institutions and state departments of transportation, as well as private industry. The center has many recent projects in various areas of the state when it has worked collaboratively with Caltrans, the Washington State Department of Transportation, the University of Minnesota and others.
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...The University uses some of the original buildings from the California Blasting Cap company, which was the former owner of the property. Starting in the 1860's, in addition to explosives manufacturing, the property, including the adjacent lot occupied by the Zeneca Company, has been used as a copper refinery, pesticide plant, and for the production of sulfuric acid. The extent of the pollution on site is still being assessed.
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There is a guard booth, and access is semi-restricted. To get to the Field Station, take the Bayview exit off the 580, go over the freeway, turn right on Meade, then left on 47th, at the Zeneca sign...