The Hummer EV Edition 1 is completely sold out, GM said.
The 2022 Hummer EV pickup truck is the newest electric vehicle to target Tesla's stronghold on the EV market."Attack the grade here. Now mash the brake and modulate the throttle," Al Oppenheiser, the chief engineer of GMC's Hummer EV, guided me as I carefully steered the 9,000-lb. truck up a steep, rocky incline.
Customer deliveries of the Hummer EV Edition 1 begin in December. First-year production is completely sold out though a GM spokesperson declined to say how many are being built. The next Hummer EV, a sport utility vehicle, launches in the first quarter of 2023.The Hummer EV's engineers tested the truck's off-roading capabilities in Moah, Utab, and on the famous Rubicon Trail.
Ed Kim, an analyst and vice president at AutoPacific, has his doubts that traditional, die-hard truck owners are ready to shift to EVs. Power and torque -- key features on any EV -- matter greatly to this core group of buyers but, he argued, truck owners can be averse to change. AutoPacific forecasts U.S. EV sales to total 440,000 units this year, up from 262,000 in 2020 and 253,000 in 2019. That number will keep rising as consumers realize EVs are not disruptive to their daily habits, Kim said.
"We're already talking about battery improvements for mid-decade," he told ABC News."It's an evolving tech. As energy density improves, batteries will weigh less and so will the vehicles."The Ultium platform is the foundation of GM's EV strategy, including the battery cells, modules and pack, plus drive units containing electric motors and integrated power electronics.
And the reborn Hummer, a shell of its boxy, gas-guzzling former self, may finally win over the environmentalists who once decried its hefty carbon footprint.
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