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Declaring the onset of a “quiet revolution,” General Motors announced this week that it is bringing back the Hummer vehicle under the GMC label, resurrecting the famed name on a 100 percent electric truck that makes 1,000 horsepower.
An ad spot released on Thursday and debuting during the Super Bowl on Sunday depicts a thundering herd of horses running across the American plains. The commercial’s audio then mutes completely, after which viewers are told: “1,000 horsepower will sound like this,” a nod to the operational silence for which electric vehicles are famous.
The vehicle is set to be revealed in full on May 20 and available for purchase in fall 2021. More
I wonder how much that battery costs to replace.
Gas powered Hummer bad.
Coal powered Hummer good
Will the body still be mounted on a 1500 GMC chassis?….brakes and everything else based on a mediocre 1/2 ton?
Electric cars are the big “LIE”. If you drive over 45mph the battery won’t last 150 miles. I live in Texas my grocery store is almost that far and we have 75mph speed limits, so guess how long that battery will last. Hope y’all like to walk.
Who the F wants to drive an electric street princess Blazer? I mean Hummer?
How long will it be able to continuously generate 1000 hp or say 750 hp if trying to pull a heavy load? Will they be ale to sell them at a profit without a federal/state tax break or an out and out subsidy? What happens when enough of the electrics hit the road and start to drain electricity from a power grid that hasn’t had any increased power input? But sure, lets sell the thing in less then two years.
1000 HP?
For how long?
That thing is either going to have a huge battery or a very short range.
You don’t generate that much HP without consuming a lot of fuel, and the fuel in this case is electricity which depends on battery capacity (and battery capacity is directly related to size).
I wouldn’t trade a six pack of beer and a roll of duct tape for all of them you could park in my driveway. My wife has an electric car, my vehicles are there to serve me, not for me to serve them.
I’d like a hummer, but not from GM
I watched a YT vid of a goof on a 1600 mile trip in his Tesla. He stopped about every 100 to 120 miles in order to take advantage of “fast charging,” since it ramps up at 20% and ramps down at 45%. Started charging at 10% to 15% and stopped at 50% max. He spent 20-30 minutes at each stop (depending on version of fast chargers). Plus at multiple charging stations he had problems where he switched charge ports 3, 4 and sometimes 5 times trying to find the quickest charger. Stopping added at least 6 hours to his would-be 26 hour trip, for 32+ hours total. What an absolute racket.
I pointed it out in a comment that a gas vehicle would have been much quicker and easier (He was in a hurry to make a flight). Not to mention economies of scale with a used $15k gas vehicle verses a $60k 50,000 mile Tesla. The replies I got? Well, let’s just say apparently I’m the illogical one.
I think this weekend I will take the mufflers off the 55 Chevy & let the headers say what I think about GMs quiet revolution.
“…available for purchase in fall 2021.”
That’s marketing speak for “the engineers have almost got it working”.
It’s already been tested, it doesn’t work. Making a mall crawler princess mobile electric is one thing. It’s when you make a truck do truck things that’s the endgame for all electric. I think The Fast Lane Truck lost 2/3rds of range when they hooked a well within tow ratings trailer to the Tesla SUV.
Meanwhile, I can pretty much make it from here to the UP on a tank of gas while pulling 5000lbs.
With Elon’s new Elonamino, rated at a 14k tow capacity. The same trip would likely take me 2 days and I’d probably be sweating each charger location.
5.7l gas V8 for the win!
Maybe a long extension cord?
This is probably government subsidized which I am tired of paying for someone else’s toys.
If’n ya want to know what pickups stay put together under tough conditions just pay attention to what the timber companies are using in the woods. F Series is pretty much what you see the bigger operations running
ecp
JANUARY 31, 2020 AT 5:33 PM
“I watched a YT vid of a goof on a 1600 mile trip in his Tesla. He stopped about every 100 to 120 miles in order to take advantage of “fast charging,””
…opportunity charging is one of the worst things you can do to a battery in terms of longevity. Depending on the chemestry of the battery, some batteries reach a “Memory” state where it becomes conditioned to the partial charge and can no longer be charged fully, but ALL types of batteries have a finite number of effective charge cycles before you get diminishing returns.
..it’s a little more complicated than this, but the best way I’ve heard it represented is as though the battery charging is a rope with knots tied in it, but you can’t add knots and you cut one off every time you charge it, regardless of how much or little that charge is.
Once the last knot is gone, the battery is useless.
Also, it’s not a steady progression. The battery useful cycle life gets shorter and shorter as it ages, so a charge that lasted 2 hours at first last 100 minutes after a couple dozen cycles, then 90, 80, 70…it’s not that predictable a progression, but it IS predictable that your performace will degrade as the cycle count gets higher.
So, best case, you have to charge at shorter intervals as time goes on.
…and this doesn’t take into account dramatic performance differences in different temperatures and “instant death” things that can happen like plate separations that can arise from poor plate welds and heavy vibrations in a moving vehicle on rough roads, but that’s a different subject for another day…
JD muh 66 F100 is still on the road.
Anyway, can we all vote that the aptly named “Hummer” is a chick vehicle?
Scratch that. It’s a big gay ice cream tranny chick pea vehicle.
…also, will the truck frame adequately protect the battery, or are we setting up a flaming ball of trucky death here the first time it gets T boned at an intersection?
…once you short something with THAT much amperage to ground, it gets REAL ugly REAL fast…
https://annapolisaccidentattorney.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/carexplosion324-crop-600×338.jpg
https://automotivesbattery.wordpress.com/2015/08/28/why-do-car-batteries-explode/amp/
…also, will the truck frame adequately protect the battery, or are we setting up a flaming ball of trucky death here the first time it gets T boned at an intersection?
…once you short something with THAT much amperage to ground, it gets REAL ugly REAL fast…
https://annapolisaccidentattorney.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/carexplosion324-crop-600×338.jpg
https://automotivesbattery.wordpress.com/2015/08/28/why-do-car-batteries-explode/amp/
… & most fire departments don’t have the proper foam to handle electrical fires vs. fuel fires
Make sure You upgrade…and get the Tow Package 😉
I just got an idea for a large hamster wheel and a capybara running in it in the bed of this vehicle in order to keep it charged.
It was a turd then and will be a turd again . Buy GM sucker.
GM can’t build shitboxes fast enough. 🙄 Can’t WAIT ’til MAHK from Boston gets hold of this hunka crap! 😆
Musk must be shaking in his sandals… NOT!