Ev1 & History Of Electric Cars
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- Опубликовано: 24 дек 2015
- Internal GM training video for the GM / Saturn EV1 Electric Vehicle
SATURN MEDIA CENTER
Sales, Service & Marketing
Bob Purcell, Opening Remarks (3:00)
A Century of Electrics (10:53)
Electric Vehicle, Start of PPQ Build (5:09)
Hudler - Michaud close (2:12) 
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...and then they built Hummers.
yup. they built hummers in the same factory after they killed the ev1.
And then sales dropped and now the H2 factory will be used to make electric cars by a Chinese company /watch?v=Yi6QfmGg5hg
and now they have the Chevy Bolt ranked #1 in affordable EVs of 2017. It only too another 20 yrs.
The Hummer factory is being refurbished to build BEVs by SF Motors.
And then they made electric hummers 😉
I worked on the Safety crew during the record setting speed run conducted at the old Firestone test track located in Fort Stockton, TX.
It was great fun to watch this almost silent EV fly by at close to 200 mph followed several seconds later by the ZL1 Corvette chase car making a huge racket!
The scariest part of the speed runs, for the safety crews, was during the battery change. In order to set an official record they pulled the battery tray, which came out from the underside of the vehicle while high up on a lift, with all the batteries inside, and replaced it with one full of fresh batteries. It was a scary procedure that had to be completed quickly so the car could make the run in the opposite direction within one hour. It was both entertaining and frightening to watch!
I worked at the GM dealer and didnt get to see this video.I'm supporting your channel 815. I found and filmed a surviving EV1 in Georgia just last week. It has a 95 mile range. Ive already uploaded it to my page. I also filmed one of the first Electric cars made in US. It is over 110 years old and still works.
what a historical jewel...thanks for posting it...
Absolutely crazy to hear there was a network of electric charging stations and electric vehicles holding 20% of the market ALL THE WAY BACK IN 1900!!!!! I just can't believe it.
2:11 That quote about GM's electric car legacy aged well!
It is weird seeing this video touting the wonders of EVs knowing the history.
"As we all know it is the customer that will ultimately determine the fate of a product" tell that to GM when they raised money to save the EV1 and begged GM , even went to jail fighting GM to have a EV1, no other car in HISTORY have people gone kicking and screaming fighting to have, no corvette, hummer, has ever done this, GM has never had a car make people beg for a car, protest for a car, go to jail for a car. There's tribute videos of the last days owners had with their EV1s. GM through all of that in the trash, wasted 500 million dollars, and ruined their name to a lot of EV people. Don't worry GM Tesla is here now and they will NEVER treat us like you have.
Well GM has the Bolt now. A pure EV like the EV1, they should have called it the EV2 but unlike the EV1 the clever stuff was not done in house by GM engineers, instead LG is responsible for the battery the motor (built to a GM design we are told) the battery management, even the entertainment system. Seems to me GM still is not serious about EVs.
If the new volt had a completly EV version and came in a 2 door configuration it'd be a perfect EV2, and if I was in Michigan I would have probably fought for them to keep the Zeta platform
Well said 😎
@@harysuper what was the Zeta?
No other car in history was actually taken off the road either and crushed. This was to prevent others from getting the tech plain and simple. Short sighted for sure
This fits in very well as a prequal to Who Killed the Electric Car.
It's so cute, like a bar of soap. I'd love a bright green or yellow one.
And then they destroyed them... Just shows you what GM is about and I will never buy a GM product
Honda, Nissan, and Ford crushed their EVs also... It wasn't just GM
Harrison Sutton actually Honda shredded their EVs. It’s in the deleted scenes of “Who Killed the Electric Car?”
Toyota ended their ev program as well but the difference is Toyota sold their RAV4-EV to customers who wanted to buy them. They were stunned by how many purchased their RAV4 vehicles.
All the other manufacturers including GM scrapped their fleets of cars. Honda went so far as to scrap new never sold ev cars saying they were experimental and not for sale which was a lie. They were built to comply with the California law until California repealed the law after everyone who manufactures ice cars spent billions to get the California law rescinded.
dont judge them too harshly. What is the truth is if they sold them to the customers like the customers wanted then GM would have to manufacture parts for the EV1 15 years after production ended. due to the fact they only made 1100 they decided it would be cheaper and easier to just kill it. Definitely a sad end for the little car but it made good sense. It likely cost more to produce then it sold for and it was short range, impractical and sold so few units that it wouldnt be worth it to keep manufacturing all of the parts for such a car
GM is about money, as is every single automaker out there. You can criticize them for killing their EV products, or you can acknowledge that no other car company was even trying to make a mass market EV at the time. At the end of the day they have to make money and they can't make money off EV's if enough demand was not there. I can at least respect GM for never giving up on the EV idea and revisiting it multiple time's throughout the company's history, they had EVs before the EV1, and afterword's they made the Volt and Bolt. I currently own a 2020 Bolt and I can say it's probably the best non-Tesla EV on the market in terms of cost, quality and efficiency.
Really at this point, its all about getting more EVs out there regardless of who makes them. So many misconceptions. I can tell you all who have driven my Spark EV have been stunned (including me). Let's just keep moving forward with the EV.
GM had it's chance and blew it. Go Go Elon!
Started working for Saturn in 2001. Saturn would of been a great brand to market and sell as an all electric car brand today. Image the Saturn Volt and the Saturn Bolt. We already were heading the right direction with the Green Line Hybrids.
Would've
Too bad they did not keep the project parallel to the internal combustion vehicules they would be even more a head of the game now.
1:58 no sir not correct ..they wanted to keep them not return them
So sad, to think how far we could of been. beautiful video thanks.
Don’t feel bad. GM ruining the EV1 was what lead to the creation of Tesla
Magnificent machines. Shame they didn't just sell them to their drivers, on the understanding that there'd shortly be no aftercare support. What a wasteful world we live in. Regen brakes weren't a new thing, even when the EVs took it up first time around. We had them on electric railways already, power could be sent back into the system for use by other trains. London Transport and MetroVick made the "Metadyne" system, which applied this idea to subway cars. That was in the 1930's. But older examples of this system existed, such as the 3,000V DC system used on the old Milwaukee Electrics.
I think it was illegal to sell them to the drivers if there was no aftercare support. Though maybe they coulda just leased them to the drivers until each EV1 died/ had a part break. That would help GM recoup the costs on those costly little cars along with not making them liable for manufacturing the parts post production.
Toyota let the Rav 4 owners keep theirs and surprisingly did not go bankrupt and many of those cars are still running 20 years later.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_RAV4_EV
It was clear that some people within GM were genuine about the EV-1 and electric vehicles. And at some point, perhaps everyone up the chain within GM were genuine. There were some good words said by GM representatives to their workforce. Those people were betrayed by GM and so was every person who wanted to see the emergence of electric vehicles. But the destroying of the EV-1 partially inspired Elon Musk and a others like him to form Tesla and do their best to take up the mission to rid FFVs from the World. And, perhaps less significantly, Tesla inspired GM to start down the electric road again. I'd guess we lost about nearly two decades of progress, but it allowed essential battery technology to make up ground. In 2019 we're nearly there. FFVs aren't going to get signficantly better or cleaner, so the EV has a clear path to take over.
GM is about money, as is every single automaker out there. You can criticize them for killing their EV products, or you can acknowledge that no other car company was even trying to make a mass market EV at the time. At the end of the day they have to make money and they can't make money off EV's if enough demand was not there. I can at least respect GM for never giving up on the EV idea and revisiting it multiple time's throughout the company's history, they had EVs before the EV1, and afterword's they made the Volt and Bolt. I currently own a 2020 Bolt and I can say it's probably the best non-Tesla EV on the market in terms of cost, quality and efficiency.
“As we all know, the customer will decide the fate of this product” 😮 Didn’t exactly go that way 😂 @1:56
I'm an early adopter and even built enthusiast conversions in the 80-90s, and indeed test drove the incredible EV1 in Palmdale, Ca.
I told GM that the EV1 needed to have seating for more than two or their car would fail, and sure enough, only wealthy west coast jet-setters leased the EV1, and it naturally failed without seating for family, and friends to demonstrate and show off your new electric car.
Among the vehicle's weight/range concerns, I believe GM-legal likely limited death-blame liability to no more than two people in the car, sadly a huge mistake.
What a nice documentary. Thank you for sharing. The EV1 was such a great car. GM had the chance to become as successful as Tesla. Instead, they crushed all those wonderful electric cars. It's a shame. I would like to own an EV1. What could be cooler than driving around in this car today?
Greetings from Germany
Notice how much lack of confidence was coming from Saturn President.
They really did make automotive history, but in the wrong way!
I would like to be driving one now,if they had upgraded the battery it would be a cool car to drive,especially with the price of petrol here in the UK !
And then they say that the way we want a vehicle is Big & Bigger truck’s they just don’t have a clue what most people want, most of my life I haven’t had that type or typical vehicles. I have had triumph , Austin, MG’s, Opal’s , Corvair’s , Mustangs, GTO’s , Volvo’s , Feiro’s & now a SMART car . They just don’t want to make a smaller car for 2 too 4 people!!!
Sometimes I miss video tapes. The part when it did auto tracking is like a time machine for me.
Unfortunately the tape did have some damage. The transfer was done on a Sony SLV-R1000 that I cleaned between tapes, this was part of a project where I transferred all my VHS tapes to digital.
He looks excited! Check out that sweet sweater!
And the rest is history. Literally.
:D Bob is such a geek :)
Sick.
automotive history comparable only to Kodak's photographic history.
"It is the customer who will ultimately determine the fate of any product"? I think GM determined the fate of the EV1
20:08 Saturn executives appear to be in a hostage video
10:20 1987 GM Sunraycer
14:34 EV1 promotional conversations
3:31 Talking intro part ends.
Dude in blue sweater was serious about this lol
Imagine if Danny DeVito or Tom Hanks had perished in an EV1, the large settlement their family would have sought. So GM smashed them all, all two seats lol.
And yet Tesla kicked General motors big time!
Just the freelance designer of the EV-1 getting back at GM.
Nothing to see here folks...move along...
Or look on my page to make your batteries last for decades longer than they normally would.
I hope GM is embarrassed for sacrificing a golden goose, for a midnight snack
yeah, they recalled their ev1's. booooo
So electric cars are still not innovative in 2021 for Gm?
GM logic at the time would have been why using a clean, quiet, low maintain cost, fun electric car when you can drive a dirty, noisy, bad for environment, costly maintenance, air poisonous car?
why is this video here, they killed EV1. if GM wasnt so greedy for money, they would have been ahead of all the other auto makers.
john michaud would kiss evey GM butt from there to DETROIT!!!!!
Lies 01:56
Sell??? Never sold a single EV1
BTW I owned a car you DID SELL...A Saturn! What a headache of a car. Couldn't sell it fast enough.
Such a tragic end to a groundbreaking car
Well we gotta thank GM for if it wasn’t for their extremely poor and out of touch handling of the EV1, we never would’ve gotten Tesla
Too bad this good car was well manufactured just to get crushed. Made history by crushing a well made electric vehicle!
And yet, they didn't 😂
then they ruined an crushed the ev1, an built hummers the biggest gas guzzling waste of money suv ever!! fast forward least it's hummer ev but now there the ev guzzler of electrics ironically
Bla bla bla, they were recalled because they were unprofitable, even though everyone loved them, they’re trying to get back to reality now, corporate greed never stops!