The GMC Hummer EV introduces a brand-new, battery-driven direction for the iconic off-roading nameplate, making splashdown with a long list of high-tech features and equipment. Now, the new GMC Hummer EV pickup has been recognized as a semifinalist in the 2022 North American Car, Truck and Utility Vehicle of the Year (NACTOY) Awards.
NACTOY Awards organizers announced the list of semifinalists at the inaugural Motor Bella Event in Pontiac, Michigan. In total, 23 new vehicles made the semifinalist list for this year’s awards, six of which are vying for the title of North American Truck of the Year.
To that end, the 2022 GMC Hummer EV pickup will contend with the new Ford Maverick, Hyundai Santa Cruz, Nissan Frontier, Rivian R1T, and Toyota Tundra.
“This year’s group of semifinalists includes some of the most interesting and innovative cars, trucks and utility vehicle candidates in recent memory, and a larger number of new trucks than we’ve seen in many years,” said NACTOY President Gary Witzenburg. “And it features more electric vehicles than we’ve ever seen, all of which our jurors will continue to test and evaluate prior to our next vote.”
To determine which vehicles make the list, the NACTOY Awards organization relies on a panel of 50 jurors plucked from a variety of print, online, radio, and broadcast media in the U.S. and Canada. Jurors vote three times throughout the year to determine semifinalists, finalists, and winners. The list of 23 semifinalists was determined from an original list of 36 eligible cars, trucks, and utility vehicles, each of which is considered new of “substantially new,” and will be on sale across North America sometime this year.
Next up, jurors will evaluate semifinalist vehicles, including the 2022 GMC Hummer EV pickup, in a driving test set to take place next month. Afterwards, the finalists will be announced at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November, with the winners announced in January, 2022.
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How?
Has anyone from the Press ever driven it?
Did you read the article? it says toward end they will drive it next month.
I did.
I know I know not many new Pickup Trucks are revealed every year so they’re picking all of them Basically =.
And the Tundra for that matter as well HAHA
Media drives are starting… Embargoed until early October.
Cannot wait for the reviews of the Hummer
Soon, Soon Soon, all the big names I follow are driving Hummer Ev next week, and driving Rivian R1T this week.
Will GM fans be sad when either the Ford Maverick or Rivian R1T beat the HummerEV? It will come down to value. NATOTY judges tend to put more into value than performance.
“Will GM fans be sad?”… what a childish question. Value is a relative term and the contenders do not compete with each other but instead are judged on their significance relative to their peers and Hummer is pretty significant. Try not to be so emotionally frail if your ‘team’ doesn’t win… it’s just some peoples’ opinions.
Well, since I am a Hummer EV reservation holder, and have never owned a ford, I would say it is my team, however I am certain the Hummer Will not win, not because its a bad vehicle, but because its too expensive, and the cost is relative to what you get… The Ford Maverick breaks new ground, and so does the R1T, so my guess it will be one of those, in both NATOTY and MT truck of the year.
I agree, i’d be suprised if the Hummer wins, and if it does its only because they will it say it went from a polluter to a green vehicle. (which no electric really is a green vehicle, just makes people feel good)
I could care less about green part, not my primary motivation to buy an EV. I buy EV’s because they are more fun and have better performance. Everything we have tried to do with ICE in 100 years of development is beat in almost every EV, Instant torque, no lag, etc… Once you drive an EV all the rest just feel obsolete.
What new ground does the R1T break that Hummer doesn’t? So far, I’d say Hummer looks to be more groundbreaking, however, the R1T is designed to be more of a traditional “truck” than the (suv-based) Hummer which could give it an objective advantage. Also the Maverick does present a good value in its most basic form (the base hybrid’s claimed mileage is extraordinary) but the value proposition stops abruptly moving up a model or two… besides that Maverick doesn’t break much ground. I will say that _OTY decisions like this often seem questionably swayed by the subjective temperaments (and even biases) of the handful of individuals choosing.
The Rivian R1T has a more advanced suspension, that Rivian designed, and has a 4 motor drive system that has real 4 wheel torque vectoring. Motortrend said its the most profound truck they have ever driven both on and off road, after spending 2 months driving it on and off road.
The Hummer is cool, better looking and cool features, but the price pushes it out of the value conversation.
The Rivian also goes 0-60 in 3 seconds same as the Hummer, but costs $40K less.
Rivian wins by being the first EV pickup into production, and setting the benchmarks with on an off road handling.
Maverick wins on price, and fuel economy. It opens a whole new segment.
I am curious why you didn’t reserve a R1T considering it’s the first EV pickup into production and is claimed to have “a more advanced suspension”, is the “most profound” and is “setting the benchmark” but instead you reserved what you describe as the merely “cool” Hummer—knowing it will cost you $40,000 more!!! It’s almost as if you don’t believe the MT quotes you provided.
Honda took the novelty prize for crossover pickup years back and even Hyundai is in that segment now too. Standard hybrid is the only thing novel about Maverick.
I do have an R1S reserved, Blows away the Hummer SUV, faster, more range, and seats 7, for a lot less money.
You will see, when NATOTY is announced in a few months. You can say you heard it from me first!
For the Hummer, I will buy it and likely flip it at an enthusiast auction after a couple months, and get my money back, maybe make a little. I doubt I want a GM BEV long term, once they start having problems have have to be parked outside away from other vehicles, I do not want to get stuck with that, like those poor 140K Bolt owners that are just stuck with an unusable car for what may take years to fix.
You made this statement early on, “Well, since I am a Hummer EV reservation holder, and have never owned a ford, I would say it [meaning Hummer] is my team.” That is totally disingenuous considering you didn’t mention you have an R1T reservation too. That combined with your slobbering over the R1T indicates you were just using the Hummer reservation claim to pretend you spoke as a Hummer guy… one who is reluctantly yielding to Rivian’s supposed superiority. When in reality you are in all likelihood a Rivian fanatic.
BTW, I am not claiming the Hummer will win. I believe it should win based on merits but, unfortunately, best merits is rarely how these competitions are won.
Reading Comprehension not your thing? I have a Rivian R1S reservation, the SUV version.
No, I like the Hummer EV , but GM’s batteries scare me a bit. If you had any idea what these batteries will do to a house, if those batteries get mad in the garage while a family sleeps, you would understand. GM’s battery, and quality control reputation on EV’s is completely shot at this moment and needs to be rebuilt before I will put my family at risk long term, with a battery in the garage charging that could kill all of us if GM got any part of it wrong.
On the Truck of the year, the Rivian does not have GM’s hubris, bad battery reputation, cheap plastic interior parts, and crazy high prices. Rivian has more mainstream prices, has almost all the capabilities including more payload and towing than the Hummer EV. A $70K pickup that has a luxury interior, super quick, suspension like a McLaren, and cool features like VTG. No ICE truck maker can compete. F-150 platinum is more expensive, as is a GMC Denali. So you see in the Rivian there is no EV premium price, its priced right where similar fitted out trucks are priced, but EV. Perhaps they is why Rivian is being valued higher than GM and Ford, even though they have not delivered one car yet. Rivian is the first EV pickup to reach the market, and the SUV is just a few months behind. Mary Barra really missed the boat when she passed on investing into Rivian, Ford was waiting with open arms, an investment that is up 16X in a few years for Ford. I guess Mary liked Nikola, and Lordstown Motors better, both investments have gone down in value.
Unfortunately, that is a problem associated with silly alpha-numeric names for vehicles. Get used to it, you’ll probably get a lot of that. And my point still stands, I am sorry if this offends your Rivian religion.
PS: I suppose it’s possible if there’s a second generation Rivian truck, in dually configuration, with 2-wheel-drive, it could conceivably be named R2D2.
Not to jump in here, but aren’t you arguing that a company (GM) with hundreds of thousands of electric vehicles already on the road is expected to have the same number of issues as a company that has produced relatively ZERO? Are you honestly expecting the Rivians to be 100% problem free? Please, this is relatively new tech, there will be plenty of hang-ups and problems like this for decades, and Rivian will have their fair share, don’t you worry.
Quite the contrary… GM has built 143K long range BEV’s and every one of them is under recall right now for main battery replacement due to fire risk. 100%, All of them recalled? This is unheard of, GM has damaged faith in EV’s, and left 140K+ of their customers hanging with a potential fire hazard.
Yes, I think Rivian will be more reliable than GM EV’s (it would be hard to be worse then the worst reliable), Rivian is extremely well funded, and has been testing their trucks on and off road for over 3 years. I am sure early Rivian’s will have some glitches, mostly software related, and they will get worked out, but Rivian is not like Tesla where they rush cars out without proper testing and validation.
You know that the Bolt recall was voluntary on behalf of GM correct? There’s a high probability that very few of the vehicles are actually affected, not all 143k Bolts are going to burn to the ground. Hopefully when Rivians first explosion happens, they’ll have the same policy.
Ya, GM is doing a feel good recall, and telling people to park their cars 50′ away from others, do not charge to 100%, try not to discharge below 30%, yet even will all of this there have been 3 Bolt fires in September, and GM has made statements like “we do not know if LG is capable of making defect free batteries”… Quite comforting!
Bolts are now burning at a rate of a couple a month, and almost all cases when the cars are parked… hmmm. It’s really crazy. GM flat out fell down on their responsibility of quality control when it comes to cell supplies, and now has done serious damage to their reputation in EV’s. I also suspect GM needs changes to their BMS strategy to curb this going forward, as I have owned several EV’s and it seems Tesla has the most active BMS strategy during and after charging or driving. When experts have torn down Tesla cars and batteries they were astounded with Tesla’s ability to keep the thousands of cells in the pack balanced, where as Bolt has been recalled a few times for out of balance modules in the past.
My biggest issue with the Rivian R1T is it doesn’t really stir any emotions when you look at it, and the front looks awkward.
Fair point, but different strokes for different folks.
Ok let’s be rational here.
#1 these awards are political and strategic.
These awards are often targeted at vehicles the industry wants to promote and often for the company with the most influence in the industry in the group.
Also you may want to note Gary Witzenburg the President overseeing this was a GM employee for years. He also is the author or a number of GM books on many of their special cars over the last 35 years. His wife also was a GM employee.
Out of all the trucks listed the one that is the most dramatic one that is targeting the future by a major player is the Hummer.
The FWD based CUV is not new as Honda was first. The Nissan is just catching up after being so behind. The Tundra is just another muddled attempt at a full size truck where Toyota just wants to be profitable not leading.
The R1T is a company with no where the pull of the larger corporations and it may get lost in the mix in the coming years.
The Hummer represents not just one model but an entire concept and platform that will influence not just GM but the industry and all the suppliers for the market.
There is a lot of money riding on the ultium.
Next Year will be a Ford or Jeep. They all will get a run at this.
RAM has won the MT truck of the year 3 years in a row… 1500, HD, and TRX, all whooped GM, and Ford’s rear, in the market too, Ram has increased marketshare huge since 2019.
Just watch and see, I told you who would win… It won’t be Hummer, no way, no how as it is too expensive. Knowing the jurors, I think Maverick has the best chance… and Maverick is going to be a huge market success, Hummer on the other hand, they will sell a few here and there, but nowhere near Rivian even.
Next year the F150 Lighting, Silverado EV, and Cybertruck might be the players.
Except the Cybertruck won’t be in the running because Tesla never provides vehicles to these events.
Tesla might change, as they grow, they will have to look at traditional media for marketing. Tesla already got rid of their massively expensive referral programs the first of which was costing them nearly $5K per car sold (more the every automaker pays in marketing)
People have to get out of the STONE AGE… have you ever drivin behind an electric vehicle with your windows down? It’s wonderful not to smell diesel, gas, or a bad engine burning oil, head gasket problems, bad CAT, broken exhaust pipes, or “cool” diesels spewing out a nauseous cloud of BLACK SMOKE! Electric is green because the electric companies are starting to use solar, wind, and NG… Yes NG is still a fuel but it’s a lot cleaner then coal or oil burning also water hydro power is making a comeback! Remember it took almost a hundered years to perfect the gas engine to where it is now…and back in the old days they had no computers to speed up development like we have now. EV’s are the future gas and diesel and all it’s maintenance are yesterday’s technology! Welcome to the 21st century!
So when you drive an EV all the other cars on the road disappear? I have not seen that when I drive my EV’s. There are still stinky cars all over the place
Hydro power is making a comeback? Where ? In some areas they are tearing dams down to restore the fish runs. I see solar and wind getting the most investment these days.
BTW, EV cars are around the same age as ICE cars and Henry Ford’s wife as a matter of fact drove another makers EV back in the day.
Ev’s are great, and no ICE car can compete on some metrics, but BEV’s also cannot compete on other metrics like towing long distance or heavy loads without sacrifice. There are people who make a living hauling stuff around on trailers behind pickups, these users average 200K miles per year, that means a battery pack life every year, and how many charging stops and time lost when towing a 20k lb trailer? Not going be towing that trailer with a HummerEv, first of all because the Hummer can only tow <10k lbs and has about 100 mile usable range while towing that.
Then we get to fires, right now every long range BEV GM has ever built is under recall for a high fire risk, and if we look back to Tesla, IIHS tracks non crash related fires, and Tesla from 2016 to 2018 is not pretty, with Model S and X having the highest rate of non crash related fires in their class. I think the battery pack in Model 3 and Y are safer, but with only a couple years on the market the jury is still out. As these millions of battery packs get abused, and age out, we will see. Another think to think about, what value does an EV have off warranty? You think putting a new transmission in a Chrysler is expensive, try a new drive unit or battery in a Tesla, 10's of thousands of dollars, and only one place to get it done, Tesla…. In the last 2 years I have not seen 1 Tesla Model S from 2012 or 2013 that has not had its battery pack replaced for sale. EV's are not perfect solutions, that is for sure, and when we visit the factory site of Tesla or the launch site of SpaceX all I se are ICE vehicles doing all the work. Tesla and SpaceX are great customers of GM and Ford it seems, they buy a lot of them.
The Chevy Bolt is a totally different EV platform then the Hummer EV… the tech has to get better! Also why are you do against EV’s if you own one? Seems like your second guessing yourself. Oh and I forget gas powered cars don’t break down or start on fire right? How about Hyundais issues with brake fluid leaking on the brakes… That’s flammable. The tech will get there you can’t expect it to happen over night!
I am not against EV’s, I own 2 currently… and have a HummerEV, and Rivian R1S on order But I am realistic, and live in a fact and data based world. EV’s are not perfect and do indeed have more fires than other vehicles in the same class and age typically, so says IIHS (Insurance Institute for highway safety), which is funded by insurance companies to provide them valuable data. EV fires are also difficult to fight, for a few reasons, first of which they are self oxygenating, and they are burning in a closed compartment water does not easily reach in the early stages of the fire, and once the fire burns through the battery pack top and car floorboards its like a hot blow torch, and still hard to get water inside to cool the heated cells. This is why a typical ICE car fire uses 500 gallons of water to extinguish, and a typical EV fire requires hours, and 10’s of thousands of gallons. Imagine the damage the Hummer Ev could do with over 3X the amount of cells compared to the Bolt EV?
As for the Hummer EV vs the Bolt EV, some of the technology is different, and some the same. The basic cell design uses the same principals, and is vulnerable to the same manufacturing defects if done in a careless way. Hopefully GM has learned and has tightened up quality control. I heard that GM signed a contract with Honeywell recently for a system to scan new cells for defects.
Brakes are a big cause of vehicle fires, especially in heavy vehicles. The problem with battery fires is they often happen when there is no-one around to notice, and the car is in a garage, so the potential to hurt or kill people is higher if they are sleeping and their house fills with toxic smoke. I have taken actions to make our family safer, we only charge when we are awake, do not charge to 100%, and have an interconnected smoke detector in the garage right over the EV’s to give us very early notice of a problem.
While I do like the R1T and like to see startup EVs succeed, the GMC Hummer is just cooler to me. I love convertible roofs or some kind of convertible roof panel system. I like them so much more than fixed glass roofs like most premium EVs have.