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GMC Hummer EV

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More than a year after its unveiling, General Motors proudly announced that it was now delivering its Hummer EV Edition 1 Pickup, a 9,000-pound (4,082 kilograms) luxury electric beast with a 1,000-horsepower motor that can go from 0 to 60 mph (96 kph) in three seconds. The message: You can do your part to save the planet, if you’re rich that is.

In a press release on Friday, GM announced the beginning of “a new era” for the company, marked by the delivery of its first next-generation electric vehicles. Unfortunately, that new era is headlined by the Hummer EV Edition 1, a $110,295 car with an estimated 329 miles (529 kilometers) of range, “modular sky panels,” the ability to do a “crabwalk” and drive diagonally, and an “extract mode” to navigate over boulders and water.

Luckily, this isn’t GM’s last EV. The company, which is working towards selling only zero emission cars and trucks by 2035, has plans to release 30 new electric vehicles over the next four years. According to the release, two-thirds of those new cars will be available in North America.

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GMC Hummer EV

Deliveries of the USD$112,595 Hummer EV Edition 1 pickup truck to start in December. It will be classified as a heavy-duty pickup, with a tow rating of 7,500 pounds.

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The first owners of the $112,595 GMC Hummer electric crew cab pickup will get slightly fewer miles range on a charge than they may have expected when the self-proclaimed super truck arrives in a few weeks.

The feature-laden Edition 1 model that will make up the first full year’s production at General Motor’s touted Factory ZERO in Detroit will be able to go 329 miles on a charge, tow up to 7,500 pounds and carry up to 1,300 pounds in its four-door cab and bed, GMC and Buick boss Duncan Aldred said Tuesday.

Previous GM statements cited an estimated 350-mile-plus range.

GM is now saying the Hummer Edition 1 will have a 329-mile range.

Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden’s visit last week to the General Motors plant that’s producing the GMC Hummer electric pickup caused a notable increase in reservations for the truck » CNBC

US President Joe Biden with GMC Hummer EV

President Joe Biden gets into a Hummer for a test drive at the General Motors Factory ZERO electric vehicle assembly plant during a tour of the plant, in Detroit, Michigan, Nov. 17, 2021. (Source » VOA)

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U.S. President Joe Biden took a spin in an electric Hummer on Wednesday, appealing to America’s love affair with the automobile to promote the sale of all-electric vehicles as motorists face sharply higher gasoline prices.

Biden arrived at the General Motors plant in Detroit, Michigan, in his presidential Cadillac limousine, nicknamed the “Beast” for its size, heavy armor and numerous extra options. He hopped out and got behind the wheel of the 1,000-horsepower Hummer.

“Anyone want to jump in the back, or on the roof?” Biden asked reporters after taking a few laps, screeching the tires for effect. “These suckers are something else!”

He told reporters he was not sure how fast he was driving.

Biden, out to highlight provisions of the trillion-dollar infrastructure package he championed and signed into law on Monday, visited an electric vehicle assembly plant at General Motors, the biggest U.S. carmaker in terms of light vehicle sales, that says it plans to go all-electric by 2035.

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