GM teases Hummer EV truck and SUV ahead of new late 2020 reveal date

General Motors will now unveil the all-electric Hummer truck sometime in the fourth quarter of this year, after scratching the original May 20 reveal due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But in the meantime, the company (and the GMC brand, under which the resurrected Hummer will be sold) is sparking a side profile of the truck, along with a more traditional SUV version without a truck.

Hummer’s silhouettes appeared in a new announcement that GMC released on Wednesday shortly after parent company GM announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2020. GM posted a loss of nearly $ 800 million for the quarter, which was better than As expected considering the company, like others – they went through a production shutdown related to the week-long pandemic.

GM announced earlier this year that it was reviving the Hummer brand for a 1,000-horsepower electric truck, confirming months of rumors and reports that the millennial excess icon was making a comeback. The truck will be a mainstay in GM’s push for $ 20 billion in electric vehicles. It will be properly equipped, and GMC said Wednesday that the new Hummer will feature the second generation of GM’s advanced driver assistance system, Super Cruise. It also works with the “Ultium” modular electric vehicle platform that GM introduced in March, which uses a battery that can scale up to 200kWh.

The Hummer truck is slated to go into production in late 2021, and deliveries will begin shortly thereafter. That’s just when Tesla’s Cybertruck is supposed to hit the road, and just a few months after startup EV, Rivian, starts shipping its own electric van and SUV. Currently there is no time frame for the Hummer SUV.

While it may seem ridiculous to return the Hummer brand to a world where temperatures and pedestrian fatalities are increasing, the potential gains are likely to be difficult for GM to resist. Truck and SUV sales are also increasing rapidly, and they also make automakers the most money. (Namely, GM said Wednesday that the average transaction price for its full-size trucks increased at $ 1,526 compared to the first quarter of this year despite the pandemic and resulting recession.) Reinforced by automakers’ willingness to make loans that take more than half a decade to repay, US customers. The US is increasingly influenced by large, expensive vehicles. like the Hummer As the flagship of the company’s new fleet of electric vehicles, there may not be a safer bet, except for the full-size electric Chevy truck that is also in the works.