GMC recently released a new 15-second video highlighting the GMC Hummer EV’s ‘Watts To Freedom’ (WTF) mode, offering a brief demonstration of this all-electric off-roader’s acceleration prowess. Fully unleashed, the top-spec, four-digit-power Hummer EV can hit 60 mph in just three seconds. Not bad for a machine weighing more than 9,000 pounds. Notably, WTF mode will also be available in other Ultium-based GM EVs in the future.
Set on a single-lane desert road, the video starts with the all-electric GMC pickup motionless. As the driver initiates WTF mode, the air suspension lowers and a notification appears on the screen confirming that Watts To Freedom mode is active. With the brake pedal released, the Hummer EV bolts forward, unleashing the vehicle’s full power potential and pinning the driver to their seat.
Watts To Freedom mode functions like launch control, optimizing the GMC EV’s performance by recalibrating various onboard systems, including pedal mapping, ABS, traction and stability control, active rear steering, and the electronic four-wheel drive system. Once activated, the air suspension lowers and the vehicle is prepared for a maximum-thrust launch, delivering up to 1,000 horsepower to the wheels via the Ultium platform’s three-motor powertrain.
As an aside, this all-electric off-roader is available in other drive configurations as well, with lower trims offering a dual-motor configuration with less than 1,000 horsepower. Range-per-charge estimates are set between 250 miles and 350 miles, depending on the configuration selected.
Beyond the Hummer EV, WTF mode is expected to be become available in other GM electric vehicles in the future, including the Chevy Silverado EV RST and the Chevy Blazer EV SS, demonstrating that the technology available in the high-dollar Hummer EV will eventually trickle down to more affordable models over time.
Check out the new WTF mode video in its entirety right here:
As a reminder, the GMC Hummer EV rides on the GM BT1 platform, while vehicle assembly takes place at the GM Factory Zero plant.
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One of the dumbest gimmicks in the Automotive industry for a 9,000 pound pigmobile.
Obviously, you have never experienced this yourself. It is truly an AMAZING experience and an AMAZING vehicle. It is spot on for what the design was intended to be…a Super Truck!!
1,668 hummer EVs sold in the first three month of this year. Advertised as an 8300 percent increase in sales year over year. And this sales number included both the suv and the pickup versions, (The propaganda is in full swing since only two were sold in the first quarter of 2023.). Seems like a remarkably small market share for remarkably huge promotional effort as evidenced by the we’d remarkably. This inefficient, expensive, 9000 pound vehicle does not appear to me close to being anything more than a niche vehicle. GM’s promotional efforts aside, in the years ahead this vehicle may be the poster child for GM’s failed policy attempting to force Americans to buy a technology that is not wanted
Ford disclosed that, with their investment amortized in, they lost $135,000 PER vehicle on EV’s. Mary told the board that GM “will build” 300,000 batteries this year. It’s truly full speed ahead with that goal. I drive past my local Cadillac dealer and there’s a row of 40 Lyriq’s sitting out front. What a mess and you can blame the progressive left in the biden* administration for a poorly executed plan, forced onto dealers and the public.
So Biden has been President for 3 years but the Lyriq has been out for over a year and caddilac started working on it the day Biden became president? That’s your argument? That doesn’t make any sense.