Hummer is coming back!
Well, sort of.
GMC has announced that they plan to revive the Hummer nameplate in order to launch their first electric pickup: the GMC HUMMER EV. Not much has been released besides a teaser shot, a 30-second Super Bowl ad, and a website, but GMC is making some bold performance claims for their new electric pickup:
That's a big fast missle.
Hide yo kids.
Based on who bought those around here this is dangerous news.
...but can I track it?
I'll take my racecruck in red...so it will hide the carnage...
I can't stop laughing...this is awesome...the times we live in!!!
Oh god no. Please. Stop. Can't wait to have to work on these abortions. The H2s and H3s were big enough piles of E36 M3.
More forced EVs! My freedoms! Noooo!
Sounds amazing. I love that the "hippie left" vehicle has now become so amazingly powerful. I can't wait to see the road tests of this versus a Cybertruck versus a Rivian. As Raze said, the times we live in!!!
Ford sells about 900,000 F-150s a year. I'm sure GM sells nearly that many trucks as well. If you could grab just a tenth of that figure, that's still a lot of units.
Awesome news, pretty impressive numbers there but range and price will be the deciding factor. Grille looks good, hope the rest of the truck doesn't look like a design from a sci-fi nerd... IOW, keep it with more traditional truck styling. Glad to see it is a GMC sub-brand and not Chevy (read Camaro-ish styled).
Former GM plant Lordstown is in the hiring process for battery production. Interesting times we live in.
GM can nail this. This may well be the test bed for Mary's "all electric future". I'm still somewhat apprehensive about that.
The Hummer was always a fashion statement, this makes perfect sense. Range be damned, if it can get to the grocery store that's all that matters. GM just has to find a loophole to give it an attractive enough range figure to get it off the lot.
The question is, does this mean an electric Suburban is a possibility?
Shoulda called it the "buzzer" or "zapper".
dculberson said:More forced EVs! My freedoms! Noooo!
Not sure if that was aimed at me, but my comment was less on this being an EV and more on the fact that the 2000s Hummer brand cranked out some truly wretched vehicles, so I'm not excited to see the revival of this brand name. Also, not all, but an abnormal percentage of Hummer owners were some pretty strange/annoying people, at least as far as being customers, and this will likely bring them back to GM by the droves.
In reply to David S. Wallens :
This is the halo ev with gaudy numbers. The rigs that really pull the technology will be standard looking Silerados and for Ford F150s. These lesser vehicles wiil start at fleet only with rubber floor mats and am/fm radios way lower power and range.This will be the favourite of various levels of government, these trucks don't need nav etc because the operator will install their own comm, gps, dispatch systems.
If any one doubts the desire of local government I can go take a picture of the District of North Vancouver's fleet of Nissan Leafs,
Electric Hummer sounds like something found on Urban Dictionary.
Wasn't there an H2/H3 rally raid project (re: proof of concept) or did I dream the whole thing up?
I found it.... Was an H1
dculberson said:More forced EVs! My freedoms! Noooo!
Sounds amazing. I love that the "hippie left" vehicle has now become so amazingly powerful. I can't wait to see the road tests of this versus a Cybertruck versus a Rivian. As Raze said, the times we live in!!!
Ah yes, the harvesting of those rare earth minerals and other necessities to make EVs do their thing make such good shakra's to environment.
stanger_missle said:Electric Hummer sounds like something found on Urban Dictionary.
No joke, the dealer they had out in Buffalo was literally called Buffalo Hummer. I saw the plate frames and went "That's unfortunate"
Military cosplay enthusiasts will LOVE this.
Brake_L8 said:Military cosplay enthusiasts will LOVE this.
I actually wonder how long before this makes the leap back over to DoD. Maybe wait until dynamic exothermic chemical runaway is not a concern from the battery storage. But then, I think it makes some interesting possibilities.
The new Bummer. It'll weigh 12,000lbs, travel to 30knots, and break ice as deep as 26ft.
Do I detect a bit of tacit acknowledgement of the genius of CyberTruck marketing?
Should be an interesting vehicle, but i'll wait until it's less clickbait-y to muster my own personal interest.
blame it on Arnold !
he already built one.......
I hope to eventually see nothing but complaints and negative comments. I certainly do not want to see anyone just contemplating how awesome this tech (probably) will be.
/Sarcasm
NickD said:dculberson said:More forced EVs! My freedoms! Noooo!
Not sure if that was aimed at me,
Oh absolutely not, sorry. It's aimed at the EV naysayers that keep claiming EVs are being "forced" on them. There are at least two that regularly use that word abour EVs on this forum.
Brake_L8 said:Military cosplay enthusiasts will LOVE this.
I just vomited with laughter...
Who doesn't want an electric Hummer?
In reply to stanger_missle :
Dangit. Beat me by 1 hr for this post.
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