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The Hummer is back. The cheeky military-inspired oversized SUV, which was a symbol of excess in the first decade of the 2000s, then disappeared along with much of the US economy.In early 2009, it will be back on the road. , reborn as the Hummer EV, in late 2021.
Whether or not you believe that the world needs to see such a vehicle return is a matter of opinion; But it’s not the Hummer of yesteryear and it will return with a greener touch.
The Hummer EV is a sign of things to come at GM
The Hummer this time is fully electric and is the second General Motors (GM) electric vehicle to be introduced this year, after the Cadillac Lyriq – with the company’s next-generation EV platform. It also represents another step towards GM’s promise. all-electric future, which will cover all the company’s brands and market segments for the next five years.
By resurrecting the Hummer under the GMC brand, General Motors has retained all of the look and weight of the original, but has ditched the gas-guzzling internal combustion engine in favor of a three-motor electric powertrain for the “Edition 1″ version. ” new. Hummer.
Revealed online via a short video feed yesterday (Oct 20), the Hummer promises to be an extremely capable off-road vehicle, with performance power that compares well to future rivals such as Tesla Cybertruck. However, unlike Tesla, GMC is avoiding a futuristic look and instead its shape harks back to the more familiar.
Although unmistakably a Hummer, under the skin it’s all new. As with the Cadillac Lyric, the Hummer EV will use the next generation Ultium modular battery technology GM has been developed in partnership with LG Chem of South Korea. The reveal didn’t detail the size of the battery in the new Hummer, but it has to be big enough to meet the performance numbers GM promises.
Edition 1 will feature a powertrain that will generate 1,000 horsepower and 11,500 pound-feet of torque, which will be capable of launching the vehicle from zero to sixty miles per hour in about 3 seconds. Plus, GMC expects the Hummer EV to go over 350 miles on a single charge. 800V DC fast charging will allow drivers to add a claimed driving range of 100 miles in as little as 10 minutes, making it a serious vehicle for covering useful distances.
Who will lead the all-electric truck race?
The performance is impressive and the range is certainly very respectable. But considering the company claims the Hummer EV is “The World’s First All-Electric Super Truck,” one has to compare specs to the Tesla, which pulled the covers off the Cybertruck a while ago and also promises a fall delivery. from 2021 for its three-engine variant. On paper, the Cybertruck outperforms the Hummer with a distance of 2.9 seconds at sixty miles per hour and a significantly greater range of 500 miles.
So can the Hummer EV really carry the mantle as the world’s first fully electric super truck?
Well, those claims are always subjective, but GM has detailed a few other attributes that certainly go beyond power, range, and endurance times. In fact, we have a better idea of other areas in which GM could compete favorably.
For example, the Hummer will come with the option of four-wheel steering and along with that, a really nifty trick that GM calls the “crab ride” – this literally allows the vehicle to move diagonally. Maybe not something someone should do on a daily basis, but it is a feature that allows the vehicle to navigate around the rocks on a narrow off-road path and, who knows, it might get you out of a shopping bind. Shopping Mall Parking Lot.
Air suspension allows the driver to raise the truck an additional six inches so the armored underside is even more protected from bottoming out on rocky terrain. In contrast, drivers can lower the vehicle two inches to improve aerodynamics on the highway. Steering the vehicle over rough terrain is assisted by 18 cameras located throughout the vehicle, including two below it, which provide real-time images and presumably eliminate any potential blind spots a driver might encounter.
The Hummer EV will be outfitted with removable glass roof panels, called an infinity roof, which will turn the cabin into an open roof experience, and drivers will benefit from GM’s Supercruise driver assistance package with automatic lane change capability. The cargo space is a traditional pick-up truck style.
A challenge for this EV: cost
If you want one, you can go to the GMC website now and reserve yours, but you will need a strong bank balance.
Edition 1, available in Fall 2021, starts at a price of over $ 112,500. We can assume GM is viewing this as a kind of halo car to showcase the automaker’s EV technology, rather than something it plans to sell in high volumes.
To spend less than 100K, albeit for just five bucks, you’ll have to wait another year for a lower spec model, the EV3X version, which still comes with an impressive 800-horsepower three-motor powertrain. A third option arrives a year after that, and the fourth and cheapest variant, available fall 2024, the EV2, is a dual-engine offering, but sacrifices a range of around 250 miles between charges, for just under. of $ 80,000.
The Hummer EV2, with a 250-mile range, is comparable to Cybertruck’s base model, but since the lower-priced Cybertruck is priced at $ 39,900, the Tesla is much cheaper and will be available 2 years earlier. That has to be hard to miss.
Still, the Hummer has some brand cachet in this segment, it looks like a traditional pickup, certainly important to many, and certainly GM is revealing early on, more details of the Hummer’s off-road bona fides, an area where Tesla remains without trying. But will all of that be enough to guarantee your success?
Image credits: GMC
