2024  GMC Hummer EV SUV First Look: Legend To Live Up To - video Dailymotion

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The Hummer is back! Can the new EV platform live up to its legendary predecessor?

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:02 Hi, I'm Elisa Priddle with Motor Trend

00:08 and this is the 2024 GMC Hummer EV SUV.

00:13 Yes, this is the little sister

00:14 to the Hummer EV pickup truck.

00:17 The Hummer name is back.

00:19 Now they are pure electric vehicles.

00:22 Still lots of power, tons of torque,

00:25 but no combustion engines anymore.

00:27 (upbeat music)

00:30 The Hummer is going to herald a whole new wave

00:37 of electric vehicles for GM.

00:40 Pretty soon, you're gonna be able to go to a showroom

00:42 and find electric vehicles in every shape and size,

00:46 but it all starts with the Hummer.

00:49 First, we have the pickup,

00:51 and then we will see this SUV go into production

00:53 and on sale early in 2023 as a 24 model.

00:58 The first batch of Hummers to come off the line

01:00 will be a special edition,

01:03 appropriately called Edition 1.

01:05 The Edition 1 is a top trim,

01:07 so it comes fully loaded, fully priced.

01:10 It comes with three electric motors.

01:13 They will give it an output of 830 horsepower

01:17 and more than a thousand foot pounds of torque.

01:20 The other thing is range.

01:23 This SUV should have a range on a single charge

01:26 of about 300 miles.

01:29 That's a little bit less than the pickup,

01:30 which is 350 estimated.

01:32 Part of that reason, shorter vehicle,

01:35 little less room for battery pack.

01:38 This version of the Edition 1

01:43 is loosely referred to as the on-road version,

01:45 and it has 22 inch wheels.

01:47 If you get the Extreme Off-Road package,

01:50 it puts 18s on there.

01:52 And when it comes to the rubber,

01:53 you can get 35s or you can ask your dealer

01:56 to put 37s on this puppy.

01:58 Engineers say that this is well-equipped to go off-road.

02:02 Here, because it's the on-road version,

02:03 we have a step assist,

02:05 but you can change that for rock rails for off-road.

02:08 We have skid plates.

02:09 And of course, because we have motors front and back,

02:11 we've got four-wheel drive.

02:13 There's about 10 inches of ground clearance.

02:15 One of the modes called Extract

02:17 will boost it up another six inches,

02:19 so you can get over any kind of boulder you want.

02:22 And if you get stuck in a tight spot,

02:24 because of the four-wheel steering,

02:26 you can kind of do a little crab walk to get out of trouble.

02:29 GM has referred to this whole project as a moonshot

02:36 because they really condensed the development time

02:39 to get this thing on the market.

02:42 As a result, there are moon themes.

02:44 Here we've got a Lunar Skate

02:46 etched into the rubber mat in the back.

02:49 The opening is 48 inches wide,

02:52 so your piece of plywood from the hardware store

02:55 is going to fit.

02:56 Inside the Hummer SUV,

03:00 you'll notice it's the same five-passenger layout

03:03 as the pickup truck.

03:04 The cabs are very, very similar,

03:07 which means faux leather seats.

03:09 GM did not want to use animal hides.

03:12 And my favorite part, the Infinity Roof.

03:16 It comes in four panels that are easily removed,

03:19 as well as the I-bar,

03:21 and you can store the panels in the front trunk

03:24 so that you can take them with you.

03:25 You can drop the glass in the back,

03:27 and you're essentially in a convertible.

03:30 Every modern vehicle has to have a lot of screens,

03:34 and the Hummer is no different.

03:35 We've got over 12 inches here in front of the driver,

03:38 and over 13 inches here in our center touchscreen,

03:41 divided into three different displays.

03:45 One of the coolest features has got to be the etching

03:48 on the speaker grill.

03:50 It is the coordinates for the Sea of Tranquility,

03:53 and look closely, try and find the footprint

03:56 of Neil Armstrong from that famous first step on the moon.

03:59 The Edition 1 has a starting price of $105,595.

04:06 And if you want to add the Extreme Off-Road package,

04:08 that's another $5,000.

04:10 It goes on sale early in 2023.

04:14 It'll be followed in the spring of that year by the 3X,

04:18 where the price goes down a little bit.

04:20 Subsequently, once we get further on,

04:22 we'll get into the 2X, and then the Base 2,

04:25 which starts around $80,000.

04:27 But that only has two motors.

04:29 The range goes down to 250 miles,

04:32 and the horsepower goes down to 625 horsepower.

04:36 GM will have both the pickup and the SUV out there.

04:40 The pickup went first because that's the craze.

04:43 Everyone's talking about electric pickups,

04:45 but in the long run, it's probably the SUV

04:48 that's gonna win the sales race.

04:49 I'm Elisa Priddle, Detroit Editor for Motor Trend.

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2024 GMC Hummer EV SUV First Look: Legend To Live Up To

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