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GMC Hummer EV Reservations Rose Significantly In November

The GMC Hummer EV Pickup has generated a large number of new reservation orders in November, the automaker confirmed during a recent media presentation.

General Motors confirmed this week that it has received roughly 60,000 non-binding pre-orders for the GMC Hummer EV so far this year – with 80 percent of those being for the range-topping Edition 1 trim level. During a recent media conference call that was attended by GM Authority, Duncan Aldred, Vice President of Global Buick GMC, said November has been the best month for pre-orders for the vehicle apart from last October when the vehicle first debuted, although he stopped short of saying exactly how many pre-orders it has received this month.

The sudden uptick in interest for the GMC Hummer EV is likely related to the recent media event that GM held to celebrate the opening of the Factory Zero plant in Michigan where the vehicle will be produced. This media event was attended by President Joe Biden, who climbed behind the wheel and tested out the vehicle’s ‘Watts to Freedom’ launch control mode for the media’s cameras.

“I’ve gotten a chance to drive some pretty incredible vehicles over the years, but I never could have imagined ones like the electric vehicle I took for a spin today,” Biden said of the Hummer EV. “The future is electric – and it will be made right here in America.”

GM CEO Mary Barra also rang the opening bell for the New York Stock Exchange to mark the opening of Factory Zero, which may have generated additional interest for the Hummer EV.

The first examples of the 2022 GMC Hummer EV First Edition are currently being built at Factory Zero, with deliveries set to commence in December. The pickup has a GM-estimated range of 329 miles and will be able to tow up to 7,500 pounds. Power comes from a 1,000 horsepower Ultium Drive tri-motor setup fed by a ~200 kWh lithium-ion Ultium battery. Prices for the range-topping Edition 1 trim, which comes standard with the Extreme Off-Road Package, start at $112,595.

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  1. Is the future electric or hydrogen? If it’s hydrogen like a lot are saying why are wasting time with ev?

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    1. Evs for passenger, hydrogen for commercial/marine/aviation.

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      1. Why not hydrogen for passenger as well? I think Honda makes a hydrogen car now it gets like 86 miles per gallon or however you say it. But the problem is only California has a hydrogen station at least that I saw.

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      2. I’m waiting for the 500 HP version for 50k in 2030!

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    2. Future is whatever the government wants you to buy. Isn’t this also the media event where the president told a reporter to lay down in front of the truck so he could run them over?

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  2. 1 more order and 12 paid actors isn’t A significant number.

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  3. Biden had nothing to do with this. The fact that the vehicle finally just went into production had a heck of a lot to do with it.

    As for hydrogen mfgs would love to do it but the fill times are still long and not real user friendly since they are mostly industrial. They are also not exactly around the corner vs everyone but the Amish having electricity.

    I have driven a GM fuel cell CUV and it was great. But between cost and infrastructure it will be a while. I see fleet vehicle getting this first.

    Not sure filling is suitable for some folks. Liquid Hydrogen is not just flammable but also very very cold. They will need to truly idiot proof it.

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    1. It takes 3 hours to fill a hydrogen vehicle?
      Yet they preach EV’s are the future? lmao.

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    2. Idiot proof? Darn!

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  4. Let’s go Brandon! Have fun in Nantucket with your billionaire buddies.

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    1. 💋 my🐴

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  5. This is printing money. if you do simple calculations, and out of the edition 1 preorders (80% of 125,000) only 3/4 come through ot a final purchase you get a whopping 8.4 billion off of it. This is very smart, to bring a high profit and high demand vehicle (hummer) before a cheaper mass market option (silverado E).

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  6. It is going to be an interesting few months. Hummer expects deliveries next month, F150 lightning in May, and I thought Silverado was in that time frame as well. I think the F150 powering a house is going to be attractive to many. TX had the big freeze and CA has regular blackouts now. It would be pretty tempting to someone needing a truck if for the cost of a transfer switch they get home backup too.

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    1. People powering a house will just buy a Generac generator as it is much cheaper.
      It also works much longer than the truck.

      The Silverado E will be shown at the CES show and will make the Lighting look as behind as it is. Ford has already started a new truck similar to the coming Chevy but they are a year or more behind.

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    2. The number of “planned power outages” were dramatically reduced this year even while the coastal morons voted overwhelmingly to re-elect Czar Newsom – and despite experiencing the worst wildfire season to date.

      This has a lot to do with the power companies knowing that the rural areas where the threat of wildfire is greatest are the same areas that overwhelmingly voted to oust Gavin and the endemic coastal Democrat rot and decay. This is where you’ll find miles of “Let’s Go Brandon” dotting farmland and forested roads alike. The ready acceptance of lowered expectations and standards by twisted, delusional coastal elites and their pink and blue haired multi-gendered and illegal immigrant slave classes (just as long as government continues to play lip service and support their headlong immoral plunge towards the total destruction of civilization as we knew it) falls in stark relief to the parts of California still upholding traditional values, free speech and institutional competence that are fighting hard to prevent the entire state being turned into a version of dystopian slime-covered San Francisco at the alter of Progress brought by “social justice”.

      PG&E is acutely aware that the “Don’t Tread on Me” parts of California aren’t buying the BS they’re selling on the coast and it appears they’ve upped their game accordingly. Not a lot of EVs around here and nobody I know plans on buying a Lightning to keep the lights on.

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  7. I think Biden had something to do with the increase in nursing home admissions this year. Cuomo had something to do with the vacancies. That Chevy Equinox fuel cell which I test drove years ago was ahead of its time. The Saturn Vue PHEV which i saw at the NY Auto Show was also a class leader. Both never to come to fruition to the general public.

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  8. Imagine the carnage this monster could inflict on a public road or highway en route to the nearest grade school with ol’ narcoleptic Xiden at the tiller. Shudder to think about it.

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  9. Seems like we’ve been waiting for this damn thing to get into consumers hands for years.

    Why is GM so slow with rolling out ultium products?

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  10. 🌈https://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/payn_c18657120211120120100.jpg

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  11. I’m waiting to see what kind of home power stanchion will be required to feed this beast, i.e., how much cost?
    And will it be portable, i.e, economically feasible to move to another home/location if required?

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