GM Built 1160 EV1s including the early Impact prototypes. 660 Gen 1s
and 500 Gen IIs. The lowest Vin delivered to a customer was #37
which was leased by Alexandra Paul. Approximately 50 of these were
stripped of their electronics and donated to Museaums and Colleges.
The Nethercutt collection and the Petersen here in LA both have one
and Brigham Young have one that they turned into a dragster using an
Ultra-Cap. 100 were moved to the NE and placed in service, some with
GM employees and some with local and state government angencies. GM
claimed that these were being put there to research how the packs
behaved in cold weather. EV1 watchers believe that this was done to
meet ZEV mandate requirements in the NE (MY, ME). The rest,
approximately 1010 vehicles were taken to the GM proving ground in
Mesa AZ and crushed.


--- In Prius-2G@yahoogroups.com, "daniel_p_b_smith"
<daniel_p_b_smith@y...> wrote:
>
> --- In Prius-2G@yahoogroups.com, "Bruce Tucker" <tuckerb2@a...>
wrote:
> >
> > You very well might have seen an EV1. A few GM EV1s were taken
from
> > California and put in service in NY for GM employees. The rest
were crushed,
> > or had their guts ripped out and the shell donated to museums.
> > Bruce
>
> I saw an EV1 on the road in Dedham, Massachusetts a
> couple of months ago.
>
> I am beginning to wonder about the truth of the story
> that "most of them were crushed." Yes, I've seen a
> seen a photo of _some_ of them being crushed,
> but I wonder whether GM might have exaggerated
> the extent of it in order to calm down the people who
> had leased them and were disappointed at not having been
> given the option to buy them.
>
> GM might have reasoned that "they've been crushed"
> would induce a sharp but brief pang of loss
> and the end of the conversation, whereas "we decided to
> award 'your' EV1 as a perk to a deserving GM employee"
> might have evoked a somewhat different reaction.
>