GMC Hummer EV 2022: Price, interior, crab walk and more

GMC Hummer EV 2021: Price, interior, crab walk and more

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GMC Hummer EV Edition1: Specs

Release date: Dec 2021
Cost: $105,595
Power: 3 motors, AWD
Battery range: 350 miles
0 to lx mph: 3.0 seconds
Smarts: Android Auto, Apple tree Carplay, and GM's Super Prowl semi-autonomous driving mode

The GMC Hummer EV Edition1 is now here, reinventing i of the virtually controversial vehicles to accept hitting the road over the past 25 years. Opinions differ on the original gas-powered Hummer, with some seeing it as a symbol of largesse and excess, while others saw it as an incredible mad Max-style off-roader.

Simply GM killed off the internal combustion engine model in 2010, and this is a new electrical rebirth. The Hummer EV Edition1 drove off the production line at the tail end of 2021, complete with all the bells and whistles GMC can think of. That includes full on- and off-route capabilities, complete with underbody armor to protect the bottom of your truck, a total of 18 exterior cameras, and a giant battery. The GC Hummer EV has it all.

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The Hummer EV Edition1 also comes with adaptive air pause, agile safety features, and some impressive performance numbers. Is all of this worth over $105,000? Here'due south everything you need to know well-nigh the next big affair in EVs.

Latest GMC Hummer EV news (updated Jan 12)

It turns out the GMC Hummer EV was originally able to pop a ill wheelie in WTF mode, until engineers made sure that couldn't happen.
Hummer has started delivering the first Hummer EV Edition 1 trucks, for those people who were able to become their reservations in early.

GMC Hummer EV release window and price

Reservations for the summit-of-the-line $105,595 Hummer EV Edition1 chop-chop sold out, and and so far Hummer has no intention of selling whatever more. Those started rolling off the production line in Dec 2021 for anyone lucky (and wealthy) plenty to have got their orders in early.

However, you can still reserve one of the subsequent models coming with a $100 eolith.

Next is the EV3X for but under $100,000. It'south slated to come up out in the fall of 2022, will have a 350 mile range and near 800 hp. That will be followed by the EV2X for just nether $xc,000, and the EV2 for just under $80,000. Both come with 2 motors, accept 625 hp, and a range of 300 miles.

However, you'll have to exist patient. The EV2X won't appear until 2023 and the EV2 arrives in 2024 — provided y'all opt for the Pickup model. The EV3x and EV2X SUV models won't go far until Spring 2023, and both pack in 300 miles of range. The SUV EV2 arrives Spring 2024, and has just 250 miles of range.

GMC Hummer EV: Design and colors

The pure electric pays homage to the original Hummer, albeit with more rounded body molding and LED headlamps — and just one color selection: black and white. Information technology'southward a four-door pickup so information technology should seat v adults relatively comfortably.

GMC Hummer EV Edition1 mountains — (Image credit: GMC)

The black-and-white interior looks comfortable and has some interesting design touches, such equally a driver'due south footrest in the shape of Neil Armstrong's spacesuit boot. Why? Considering apparently the designers considered the Hummer EV a moonshot, get it?

GMC Hummer EV Edition1 interior dash — (Paradigm credit: Tom's Guide)

Those with heavy duty hauling needs should note that the Hummer EV'due south truck bed is a fleck small at about 5 feet in length.

GMC Hummer EV Edition1 in the woods — (Paradigm credit: GMC)

A full-length pickup bed is usually about vi and a half anxiety long, just you'll probably be able to become to a couple of due east-bikes in the dorsum of the EV Edition1.

GMC Hummer EV Edition1 rear bed — (Image credit: GMC)

To aid yous do so, the Hummer includes a fold-down, multi-step tailgate that makes it a lot easier to get gear in and out of the rear.

GMC Hummer EV Edition1 read bed step — (Image credit: GMC)

To aid you do so, the Hummer includes a fold-down, multi-stride tailgate that makes it a lot easier to become gear in and out of the rear.

All this sits on wagon wheel-sized standard 35-inch tires should you desire to booty stuff beyond the plains.

GMC Hummer EV Edition1 on the beach — (Prototype credit: GMC)

And to requite you that open land feeling, the Hummer EV's roof drinking glass panels tin can be removed for open-air riding and so stashed in the front trunk or frunk. How cool is that?

GMC Hummer EV Edition1 frunk — (Image credit: GMC)

GMC Hummer EV: Self-driving features and interior

When y'all're on the highway, the new Hummer will include what is the closest tech you'll get to a self-driving vehicle today — GM's Super Prowl hands-off feature, the only automaker to offer such technology.

GMC Hummer EV Edition1 grill — (Paradigm credit: GMC)

You have to keep your eyes on the road with Super Prowl, but information technology works on over 200,000 miles of highways in the U.S. and Canada and can definitely reduce driver fatigue on long trips. (Tesla'due south Autopilot, in case you were wondering, is only supposed to exist used with a least one hand resting on the wheel. The aforementioned goes for designs from the likes of Volvo and BMW.)

There's also room for Super Cruise to graduate to a 'Level 3' democratic driving system. That means drivers would be able to take their attention of the road in some instances, though information technology's still a long way off being capable of getting around without any commuter interaction. There's no timeline on when this might happen though.

GMC Hummer EV Edition1 front and rear seats — (Image credit: GMC)

To keep you informed of what's happening inside and out — and what'due south left of the truck's impressive 350-mile range — there's a 13.4-inch center touchscreen and a 12.3-inch guess cluster.

GMC Hummer EV Edition1 speedometer — (Paradigm credit: GMC)

The vehicle delivers nearly countless details on the land of the interruption organization, power railroad train, and other parts of the pickup on the big screens. Should you desire more, it too works with Android Auto and Apple Carplay.

GMC Hummer EV: Range, functioning and torque

The first version, the EV Edition1, will apply three electrical motors (one up forepart, two in the rear) that volition generate 1,000 horsepower. Information technology's initially rated to deliver xi,500 lb-ft of torque simply hasn't talked about towing capacity. GMC is equipping the truck with a sports-machine-like launch control style that will catapult this beast from 0 to lx mph in iii.0 seconds. Compare that to the popular internal combustion engine Ford F150 that takes vi.2 seconds to get there.

GMC Hummer EV Edition1 river — (Paradigm credit: GMC)

The automaker is as well promising the huge Hummer will get a maximum range of 350 miles on a single accuse. That's an impressive number considering the size of the vehicle. Even more impressive is the claim it will charge upward to 100 miles of range in 10 minutes. Nevertheless, that assumes you're using a super fast 800-volt charging station. We should annotation, however, that 350 kW charging stations are not available for the home and are very rare indeed on the road every bit of this writing. (For more on charging, encounter TK and TK.)

GMC Hummer EV Edition1 pickup at sunset — (Epitome credit: GMC)

One of the hallmarks of this Hummer is its off-roading capabilities. Toward that end, there'south a terrain driving style that raises the vehicle an boosted ii inches on top of its standard 10-inch clearance. You volition too be able to put the truck into Excerpt (as in, become me out of here) mode, which volition raise the body half-dozen inches. How loftier is that? GMC says information technology ways yous could drive through two feet of water, no problem.

GMC Hummer EV Edition1 convertible in woods — (Image credit: GMC)

Among its myriad driving features, the Hummer EV Edition1 will also include a "crab walking" driving mode we can't wait to test out. It lets you bulldoze the Hummer in a diagonal direction, thanks to torque vectoring and rear wheel steering. It's intended to become you out of (or into) tight spots. Look for this feature to come up in handy when you lot're trying to squeeze this hulking vehicle into a tiny parking space.

There's also a launch way called 'WTF Mode, which transfers the burden of the truck's i,000 horsepower to the wheels. WTF stands for 'Watts to Freedom' and is essentially Hummer's take on the Launch mode feature you'll observe in a large number of sports cars.

Hummer has also revealed WTF way would allow the Hummer to pop a wheelie, though engineers tweaked the front wheels' torque to ensure this doesn't happen. For "practical safety reasons", which is definitely the right call.

Plus, to make sure you become the well-nigh out of your adventures, the Hummer EV will as well come with transparent 'sky panels' that class something Hummer is calling an Infinity Roof. Those panels are also removable if you want to experience your surround without any barriers.

GMC Hummer EV: Outlook

While a lot of other EV pickup trucks seem to be in the prototype stage and not ready for production, GMC's Hummer looks like the existent deal. And the automaker is no startup. The company has proven engineering science on the route, from Super Cruise in Cadillacs to its heavy duty Sierra pickup trucks. It even has experience in the EV arena with the Chevy Commodities — recent bombardment issues aside.

GMC Hummer EV Edition1 front view in woods — (Prototype credit: GMC)

While other companies are promising much less expensive electric pickups — both Tesla and Rivian models will exist $30,000 less — we're willing to bet at that place are enough buyers with plenty cash to keep the Hummer EV Edition1 sold out for some time to come.

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John R. Quain has been reviewing and testing video and audio equipment for more than 20 years. For Tom's Guide, he has reviewed televisions, HDTV antennas, electric bikes, electric cars, as well equally other outdoor equipment. He is currently a contributor to The New York Times and the CBS News telly programme.