GM Resurrects Hummer As an Electric GMC Pickup With Huge Power Figures

Chad Kirchner
by Chad Kirchner

General Motors, like every other automaker, is busy working on its electric future. The most exciting EV model yet to emerge from The General will fall under the GMC nameplate. It’ll be a pickup. And it’ll be badged as a Hummer. A 1,000 horsepower Hummer.

The automaker plans to tease the GMC Hummer EV during this year’s Super Bowl with a series of commercials touting the truck’s performance. Each of the commercials is silent, highlighting the fact that the new truck won’t make the traditional noises a performance vehicle does.

In addition to the model’s 1,000 horsepower, GMC claims the Hummer EV will make 11,500 lb-ft of torque. That should be good for a 0-60 mph time of around 3 seconds.

For comparison, the triple-motor Tesla Cybertruck should offer similar numbers when it goes on sale. GMC isn’t providing range estimates, charging times, or word on how much the darn thing is going to cost. We’ll know more as we get closer to the official reveal, slated for May 20th, and the eventual on-sale date. But GM is getting into the full-EV truck game in a big way.

“GMC builds premium and capable trucks and SUVs and the GMC Hummer EV takes this to new heights,” said Duncan Aldred, vice president of Global Buick and GMC.

In a lot of ways, it makes sense to bring what’ll likely be an expensive EV truck to GMC. Most of GMC’s sales are drawn from higher-trim models, such as the new AT4 and ubiquitous Denali sub-brands. It’ll be an easier sell. It also makes a lot of sense to resurrect the Hummer name in a time where large SUVs and pickup trucks are in high demand, even as governments are looking to reduce emissions and improve fuel economy.

It’s going to be an interesting year in this segment, that’s for sure.

[Image: General Motors]

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  • Mopar4wd Mopar4wd on Jan 31, 2020

    Tens of Thousands of XJ and ZJ offroaders may contend unibody is just fine for 90% of offroading. I had one best offroad vehicle I ever owned. Range rover changes to Unibody a while back and gather they still do well offroad (it's not the frame that breaks at least).

    • White Shadow White Shadow on Feb 01, 2020

      Only the truly uninformed bash unibody for offroading. Jeep and Land Rover are just two brands that have had enormous success building unibody vehicles with amazing capabilities over the long term. But in all honesty, it doesn't really matter these days because the market is dictated by buyers who have no interest in offroading. It's an image thing at best. Most people don't drive in conditions that require the maximum capabilities of their 4wd vehicles.

  • Wheatridger Wheatridger on Feb 01, 2020

    Great- now there's a vehicle that promises the smugness of a Prius and the menace of a Panzer tank. It's doubly dystopian!

    • Mcs Mcs on Mar 01, 2020

      "smugness of a Prius"?? I've seen smugness from drivers of all types of vehicles. Besides, I think most prius owners are now interested in it's new role as the cockroach of the highways. You just can't kill the things. They're also good for 40+ mpg at 80 mph.

  • Dwford There's plenty of time between now and 2030-35 to design and sell through a whole new generation of ICE vehicles, if not 2 generations. Chevy seems to be on a dual track plan with ICE and EV versions of the Equinox and Blazer nameplates. No reason Cadillac can't do something similar.
  • Kwik_Shift_Pro4X Poop or get off the pot.
  • TheMrFreeze The wife unit and I refuse to buy a white/black/grey/silver car...life's too short for boring. As it happens we both drive orange cars right now but slightly different shades. Total coincidence, just happened that the used cars we found that met our requirements (ie: manual trans and at least some amount of character) both happened to be orange. My previous daily driver was orange as well, again total coincidence...they just seem to find us I guess...
  • Marcus36 In other words...."WE have no idea what we are doing"
  • Donald This is what happens when you make your wife CFO. This is all the result of accounting problems. And could’ve been avoided with a reserve of liquidy.
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