The GMC Hummer EV debuted this week and immediately received applause from Hummer fans for staying true to its heritage with a wide-set stance, macho styling and utilitarian (yet still modern) interior.
A team of talented General Motors designers helped make the GMC Hummer EV a reality, but they were also supported by a team of equally talented sculptors. These men and women helped carve out every last detail of the exterior and interior of the GMC Hummer EV on a clay styling buck, helping to finalize the design for the truck in the months leading up to its debut.
“We spent months refining every detail of the GMC Hummer EV, inside and out,” the GM Design Instagram account said in a post thanking its team of sculptors for all their hard work. “Every detail of the interior and exterior was sculpted by hand in clay and polished by our digital sculpting team.”
The GM Design Instagram account also shared photos of the finished, full-sized GMC Hummer EV pickup clay styling buck that the sculptors made. The finished product may look pretty realistic, as it has been painted, polished and features realistic-looking plastic trim pieces, but don’t be fooled, it’s actually clay!
This same team of designers and sculptors are likely now turning some of their attention to the GMC Hummer EV SUV, which is expected to debut sometime in the near future and will go on sale after the pickup truck model variant.
As a quick aside, the 2022 GMC Hummer EV pickup debuted this week in four different trim levels and with either a two-motor or three-motor powertrain. Output levels range from 625 horsepower to 800 horsepower, although the now sold-out Edition 1 variant is good for a massive 1,000 horsepower. The truck also has 250 to 350 miles of range, depending on the model. Entry-level models have 400V battery packs, but the more expensive variants have 800V packs with 350 kW fast-charging capability.
The first customer deliveries of the 2022 GMC Hummer EV pickup will commence next fall.
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First thing that popped into my head when seeing pictures of the GMC Hummer EV was it made me think of the original Hummer and the Range Rover Evoque.
Surely sculpting “by hand” is not unusual or special.
During the design process most every new vehicle is rendered in clay, formed by hand, like this.
true most still use clay but some design studios have gone full digital.
Kind of like say hand crafted Hamburgers.
You have more money than brains to pay 100 grand for a ride that goes 300 miles max and then has a dead battery that has to charge. If you are dogging that thing and pulling power it won’t go 300 miles so how far will it go if you are flogging it? Will it have a solar recharging kit so you can recharge the battery if it goes dead in the middle of the outback? Of course not! It will be used to cruise the local watering holes and impress the squirrels looking for nuts and then back to the garage for that electrical hookup. Give me fossil fuel every time I go off road.
No true EV owner will drive until the battery goes “dead’. But does your post reveal that you do drive until you are out of gas?
I will have to be honest once EV models get more into the general public the running out of power will become much more common.
People now run out of gas because they don’t want to take the time to fill up and stretch it a bit far.
I had considered that a company with quick chargers that can be taken to a dead EV might prove useful.
Even a quick pack that could be hooked up and used to get to the nearest charger.
It is human nature to put off and with EV models it is less forgiving.
My, Oh my. Why do the new designers, insist on the super high belt line. Anyone but guys trying too impress whomever, will buy this thing. Tree huggers will too. If you have driven the latest version of the Camaro, it can be a death trap with one sitting so low, and the bottom of the window is at the nearly the top of your head. Please, please, get more consumer feedback on these designs before dumping so much money and labor into these new toys.
PETE’s comment on high beltline. I have a 2019 Camaro and yes it does sit low ( the entire car) but the front seat “electric” can be adjusted for height. I’m 6’2″ and I find the high belt line to be no problem. Just adjust the seat. I find too many vehicles to be built for no one taller than 5’8″ if it doesn’t have an electric seat. Therefore, I have to buy a vehicle with electric seats that are six way and for many of them is is an option on higher trim levels. I’ll bet that this Hummer the seat will be too high though it is a truck. My 2012 Silverado with the six way electric seat works for me. The standard seat or just two way electric would not work for me.
your camaro has the worst visibility of any car ever produced. You just wanted to show off your car, and camaro. This is an irrelevant website, we don’t care George.
because they’re designers, and you’re not. I’m sure they know what they’re doing, but your opinion is probably appreciated, just not by me.
Solid points mate. People who buy niche performance vehicles do not care about range typically Just like with any niche vehicle there will be counter people who argue why one does not need it. Usually these are people who can’t afford it. So what if people only “show” off at local watering holes. Most truck buyers in general do not even Tow anything. Especially the Ford crowd haha. With that said most Raptor owners have never used their trucks for what it is designed for. You know in some countries like Germany it is illegal to run out of gas on the autobahn. Similar to gasoline, EV owners will have to be responsible with their range. And no building charging stations everywhere in public is not the solution.
Gyal I have a 2017 Camaro SS and no visibility issues-absolutely none.It is the best car I have ever bought,it’s crazy fast and made it even faster and so much fun.It is pushing 500HP and I have gotten 33.2 mpg!Your opinion doesn’t hold water with me.
I applaud the GM teams for doing such a beautiful job. I have read about clay sculping their concept cars since the early 1960’s when I became a car fan as a child. Some of the early automobile magazines had many articles about them, because the top managers need to “See” a real physical concept before production approval. Now with the new engineering tools. most of use can see the concept from 2D and 3D computer models, but eventually a real physical model has to be completed.
This design is so great that it really looks like a true truck, similar to the Lordstown, Rivian, and other EV concepts, except the Cybertruck. And I know many of those Cybertruck reservations will be canceled and directed to the GMC Hummer EV before production begins.
they dont care
Oh hey I just noticed something. How the Center screen connects to the console makes it look like it can slide between the drivers right and the passenger’s front, like it’s on a track!.
Really cool design and I like the power numbers,only it has to be charged!Off roaders can take extra gas with them,I don’t see a way to take extra battery packs,lol.Lots of nice innovation there but we are in the early stages of electric vehicles.It will be probably many years before a more efficient battery with a longer range can be available.This research takes a lot of money so selling what is coming out soon for a number of years will eventually fund that research.Unless some zillionare just throws down the cash.Think of the early cars with ridiculously low HP engines and how far they have come today.It’s going to take time.
I am not sure why anyone would want that butt ugly cybertruck,which is an insult to any truck.Real trucks around the world are pissed,lol.
At this point the Cybertruck is worse looking than the Pontiac Aztek,which actually sold some but who knows?Tootsie Pops(I love them) are still around due to a lot of suckers out there.
It’s all great for the environment to have an electric car and they do create incredible horse power but they also require a power station to charge it. In Australia we have Coal and gas power stations so while the truck is not polluting The atmosphere the power station charging it is. The new Hummer looks great though well done.
According to some articles Solar is worth to install at homes in Aus in about 6 years it would pay for itself.
Yes solar is very worth having and I do have 4kw solar power setup on the roof. The inverter can handle another 1kw which I will have installed. Pays for 80% of the household power, more if I was a bit more power conscious.
At this price range and style the dash should have the wide screen as it will be in the 2022 Cadillac Escalade. The dual screen seems redundant and its becoming outdated. But if those who would do take it off road it is very difficult to turn or push knobs on bumpy roads, nearly impossible to tap the screen on a radio button or ICON. It is a truly well engineer EV vehicle and it should knock the socks off the Tesla EV vehicles as GM expands its EV offerings. (A radio button is what you select an option on a menu with a touch screen, not radio buttons for music selection.)
Looks like an Avalanche wearing a new dress with an implant here and there.
It’s a concern that GM still hasn’t got a actual working prototype of the hummer yet.
This is one ugly expensive toy car. Good luck in crash testing, rock crawling, and snow plowing.
Well the one in the commercial sure looked like it works.