Chevy S-10 EV Resurrected! The GM EV1 That Got Away

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@gingerboi8711 2 ай бұрын

THIS IS AWESOME!!!

@BrickNewton 2 ай бұрын

Here because I'm a fan of Jared and his channel. Saw the car in the thumb nail and had to check this out.

@benstrait333 2 ай бұрын

Same here!

@floatplane 2 ай бұрын

Wish they’d make something like this … now

@PWN-E 2 ай бұрын

I'm curious why? It never had good range, and took all night to charge. A used Model 3 is a 10x better car.

@jamesbarker7145 2 ай бұрын

@@PWN-E because it would have a useable range and quick charging if they built it now...they'd use new batteries and chargers.

@PWN-E 2 ай бұрын

@@jamesbarker7145 Gotcha! It seems odd, we built small EVs 30 years ago because that's all the batteries could handle. Now we have better batteries so we build huge, expensive EVs. Part of the problem is the batteries require a lot of space so a small EV isn't so doable.

@4dthinker582 2 ай бұрын

I agree. A modern EV chassis with lithium batteries. S10 size rather than Colorado size.

@michaelreynolds1904 2 ай бұрын

@@PWN-E They were limited by the battery technology of the time. The EV1 didn't have a ton of range either.

@DYT-jx4jp 2 ай бұрын

I've been missing your videos :-( SO, what a video to post 👍👍 What a great story/history and saved a very interesting bit of history. Thank you for the efforts!

@TheQuestionableGarage 2 ай бұрын

Was fantastic having you by and getting to share the truck with you!

@jeromeandre4915 2 ай бұрын

Many thanks Jared, speak soooonnn... ;-)

@somberrhombus 2 ай бұрын

its crazy that even today my E-Transist still needs a vacuum pump for the brakes. Sometimes not much has changed since the 90's XD

@nicks9360 2 ай бұрын

A lot of people don't know but Ford also made an all electric Ford Ranger in 1998 to 2002 think it had about 70 Mi range. That's around the same time as GM's Electric S10. I'd love to see this EV S10 in a race with the EV Ranger. Also comparing the two technologies would be interesting

@JP-sw5ho 2 ай бұрын

I love this

@DougSteventon 2 ай бұрын

Love his attitude and enthusiasm! Never knew the S10 electric existed.

@Nicholas-f5 2 ай бұрын

Really cool, I used to drive the EV1 in high school in LA, '97

@auctionwheels 2 ай бұрын

Bring this to caffeine and octane I would love to see it.

@SmartMart1658 2 ай бұрын

Great rare EV. Well done for finding and saving this rare vehicle.

@jeffreymarshall5959 2 ай бұрын

Awesome loved looking at the EV1, never new about this one, well done, glad you have saved this piece of history

@EdWensell 2 ай бұрын

There was also a Toyota RAV4 EV using a similar setup. They were not crushed.

@revengefrommars 2 ай бұрын

10:40 I've also had this idea. There are EV1s in multiple countries, usually owned by schools or museums. It's possible one of them could use some US dollars a lot more than an EV1 with no drivetrain. Bring it back into the US and retrofit the S-10 drivetrain and a new battery pack, and have the only working EV1 on the road.

@TonyBasuro 2 ай бұрын

[Shaking fist at the sky] "Geeeeee-Eeeeeemmmmm" So much lost time and opportunity since the EV-1 and the Ni-Mh battery were introduced. Geeeeeee-Emmmmmm!

@Nicholas-f5 2 ай бұрын

Chevron held the patent for large format batteries, that put us back a decade.

@TonyBasuro 2 ай бұрын

@@Nicholas-f5 If my "Who Killed The Electric Car" knowledge serves me right. It was GM that sold those patents to Chevron

@outkast40 2 ай бұрын

I would love to see BoostedBoiz take that S-10 and install Tesla parts in it. RichRebuilds would do something crazy with it as well.

@jeromeandre4915 2 ай бұрын

Boostedboiz...hum... good idea...

@EdWensell 2 ай бұрын

Might also want to look around for a first gen RAV4 EV (97-03). Very similar to but not quite the EV1 drivetrain. Used the same Magne Charger and Ni-MH batteries. Toyota allowed lessees to buy them at the end of the run.

@EdWensell 2 ай бұрын

PS - "Didn't have decent batteries in the 90's".... Oh someone needs to read up on the patent encumbrance of large Ni-MH batteries. There is a reason C and D size Eneloop batteries do not exist.

@Nicholas-f5 2 ай бұрын

Many were recently sold off by Tony Williams for cheap, they have a motor seal defect, I believe.

@michaelbujaki2462 2 ай бұрын

@@EdWensell Come to think of it, you're right. I haven't seen any C cells or D cells in stores lately. Oddly enough, I did spot a few flip phones and a CD player at Walmart, so I'll check there.

@nicoracien1924 2 ай бұрын

My friend imported one in Canada back in the days...like 15 years ago

@salmanzh 2 ай бұрын

That's quite the treat!

@Jcewazhere 2 ай бұрын

That charging spot is brave, one fender bender and it's toast. Cool truck though.

@urbanstrencan 2 ай бұрын

To bad we don't get simple 2 seater EV pickups anymore woul love to see now new electric Subaru UTE, Golf 1 pickup ❤❤❤ Great video keep it up

@RedBatteryHead 2 ай бұрын

Pretty special piece of history they didn't the scrap. With a modern li-ionBattery it would be a usable truck.

@jeromeandre4915 2 ай бұрын

that is the plan (y)

@GWAForUTBE 2 ай бұрын

As a big EV fan I was very aware of the EV 1 and that they were all mostly crushed. This is neat. How many of these S10 EV1 vehicles were made?

@jeromeandre4915 2 ай бұрын

around 60

@alexgirniak8606 Ай бұрын

Around 460 made. Of those close to 60 were sold (to the utility companies and government agencies) and others leased and eventually crushed.

@Labergemusic 2 ай бұрын

Cool car!

@caterpillarkiller1970 2 ай бұрын

Never talked about the heater. I wanna see how they make it warm. I saw antifreeze tank...

@TheQuestionableGarage 2 ай бұрын

The truck uses a diesel heater to warm the air blown into the battery case, and then a heat exchanger(very much a heater core for climate control) to warm the coolant for the motor, charger, and inverter units.

@89five3five 2 ай бұрын

Omg where have you been?!? I thought this channel was dead.

@3ExtraLives 2 ай бұрын

Apparently channel not posting for a month means dead, god forbid someone take a vacation or something

@nevco8774 2 ай бұрын

@@3ExtraLivesNot necessarily: Francie left Out of spec podcast. People move on sometimes.

@roodick85 2 ай бұрын

My friend has one of these in Houston at TXRX Labs

@aliabdallah102 2 ай бұрын

Eew Houston. (I live there)

@nevco8774 2 ай бұрын

Will this project eventually use Lithium batteries inside the frame to free up the bed, and make it into functional truck?

@PWN-E 2 ай бұрын

To clarify, that's an S10 EV, not an EV1. It does use very similar componentry to the EV1. There was a running EV1 in Phoenix in about 2008 which used parts from an S10. I don't know what came of that car though.

@junehanzawa5165 2 ай бұрын

Francis Ford Coppola still has one. He refused to give it back. He told GM it had been stolen and had disappeared.

@Nicholas-f5 2 ай бұрын

@@junehanzawa5165epic, I met him and he has a new film out

@bubba99009 2 ай бұрын

Had no idea these used such a goofy charging system. Induction seems like a pretty poor choice to charge anything this power hungry considering the inefficiency. Apparently they also had two incompatible versions with different size paddles.

@EdWensell 2 ай бұрын

More concern about safety. No exposed conductors with induction.

@bubba99009 2 ай бұрын

@@EdWensell That's a pretty trivial engineering problem to solve with additional low voltage signaling lines. No reason to go inductive except maybe for the "cool" factor.

@Nicholas-f5 2 ай бұрын

Interestingly, the paddle could be cut off and switched to J1772, there was a grant to convert them all in CA.

@Nyth63 2 ай бұрын

The heck with the Tesla stuff. You could maintain the pedigree by looking at the GM Ultium modular cells.

@michaelreynolds1904 2 ай бұрын

My wife wotks for a company that is building a drive on inductive charger for EVs and electric golf carts. Same idea ans the front paddle but in a larger format.

@Ro-Bucks 2 ай бұрын

The old EV1's at the schools are enough that nobody owns them, and a new ownership could be made.

@ryandoyle4344 2 ай бұрын

When a basic EV drivetrain is sought-after, most only offer over complicated robots.

@pederb82 2 ай бұрын

This is so sad to see that the rare car end up with such a big bafooon of a person. Everything around him and his person scream that he’s an abuser of cars. The fact he’s done burnout with it? It belong in an museum. And end up with a careless tuner. Rip

@launchpadmcquack9305 2 ай бұрын

A baffon would comment on what someone should do with their own property

@pederb82 2 ай бұрын

@@launchpadmcquack9305 public interest always come before private property

@CondoreComputing 2 ай бұрын

Youve clearly never watched his channel. He put's a lot of time and effort keeping some really cool vehicles alive, and if it weren't for him picking this one up it would have most likely ended up in a car crusher. Locking this one away in a museum would mean it never runs again either, his whole mission is getting this one working better than new to show it off to people that never had a chance to see what these vehicles were capable of in the 90's and what we could have had if they didn't scrap them and waste all the development that went into this platform. So many rare cars are locked away in museum storage and collectors private garages that nobody get's to see untill someone dies and their family auctions off the giant collection they hoarded for 60 years.

@3ExtraLives 2 ай бұрын

@@pederb82 ah yes, I forgot cars are made to stand still and never run, driving a car is what bafoons do

@pederb82 2 ай бұрын

@@3ExtraLives with an rare car like this it’s a crime that you do anything but as close to original and keep it with as little use as possible for future generations to experience. But yeah land of the egos. I bet you vote Trump too.