Discussion: Your first electric pickup may be a Hummer

[Zane 531]

When the General Motors and the UAW announced a deal to end the ongoing strike last week, one of the potential settling points was a $3-billion investment in the Detroit-Hamtramck plant for future electric trucks. On Friday, Reuters reported that an all-electric pickup branded as a HUMMER could be the first product out of that investment....

https://www.gm-trucks.com/your-first-electric-pickup-may-be-a-hummer/

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What do you guys think? Is this exciting? Lame? Where is GM going with the brand if they do label "Project O" as a HUMMER?

[oak 1971 40]

When I asked the finance guy last Friday when I was picking up my baby Duramax what he thought of Ford's electric F-150 commercial and $500 million "investment" in Rivian, he said "somebody has to be first to fail". Guess he didn't get the memo.

[BigWhiteMastadon 3]

Not unless it looks like the original Hummer. 

[RickJ 3]

Should have enough room for a genset and plenty of fuel.

[Jsdirt 1,136]

I'm guessing $100k starting price. If the average truck is selling for nearly $60-LARGE these days, what's considered "upper end"? $200k? 

 

After owning a couple 21st Century GM products, I'll take a looooooong pass on this one. 

[j-ten-ner 1,096]

They are probably referring to a humm(er)ing-bird lol

 

so long

j-ten-ner

 

...and yes, electric truck is exciting, as a Hummer not so...

 

 

Edited October 23, 2019 by j-ten-ner

[Tom Ockuly 0]

The electric Mustang doesn’t look anything like a Mustang so I wouldn’t count on the Electric Hummer looking like the original either. 

[Likarok 391]

To me this is also one of the problems with electric. Why do they all have to be so butt ugly! With the exception of a few electric cars most of the ones coming out including the GM ones look crazy ugly. 

Edited January 24 by Likarok