The super-secret story behind the world’s only electric Motorola Corvette 👀💥 By GaytonaUSA / thedrive
, like what one would have found on cars like the very early Ford Ranger EV. Those two technologies were early attempts to standardize the EV charging experience, rather than the “Home Depot special” 220- to 240- volt plug found on most EV homebuilt kits.
The documents from the phonebook stack seem to support this theory, too. Corvette wiring diagrams with pin-out information look to be something Motorola engineers likely used to keep the gas-powered car’s ancillary functions. It appears there was an attempt to make the hydraulic power steering work, and the vehicle’s ride height looks about the same as the gas-powered car.
The documents place the development of the car as starting sometime in 1992 or 1993. Motorola purchased the used 1987 C4 Corvette with about 64,000 miles on the clock in the winter of 1993. This Convertible would have been equipped with the Chevy 350, making 250 horsepower, and matched to theOne of the first pages of the documentation includes a starting and driving procedure. Starting and driving the EV Vette was pretty seamless.
levels of power, but back in the 1990s. By comparison, the original Toyota RAV4 EV only had 67 hp, and the GM EV1’s 137 hp was an unheard-of rocket by EV standards of the era.I’m not an electrical engineer, but I gather that the documentation Brosten has for the EV Vette isn’t complete. None of it has any battery information for the vehicle, so we don’t know how many kilowatt-hours, amperes, or volts the batteries currently installed could cumulatively make.
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