EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT THE GMC HUMMER EV ALL-ELECTRIC SUPERTRUCK BEFORE THE REVEAL ON OCTOBER 20.

The coronavirus pandemic has rearranged the plans for businesses big and small, and that includes even giant companies like GMC. Back in the early Spring, GMC announced that on May 20, they were going to reveal one of the most innovative vehicles in history: the GMC Hummer EV all-electric supertruck, releasing only a single image of a beautiful, almost Art Deco-inspired central grille bar and headlights.

We were chomping at the bit for the big reveal in late May, but then Covid-19 changed everything, and GMC pushed back the reveal, then later pushed it back again, teasing the public periodically with tantalizing far-away videos or extreme close ups. That said, if nothing goes wrong (or more wrong that it has already, anyway) we appear to finally have a reveal date for the GMC Hummer EV:…

October 20, with GMC saying that reservations to buy the Hummer EV will be opened that day! Delivery is scheduled for 2021.

We’re so excited to welcome another full-size truck into the fold here at McLarty Daniel GMC, especially one that appears so poised to flip the script on what a truck can be and how clean it can run while still providing a simply incredible amount of towing. For now, read on for everything we know right now about the GMC Hummer EV, the massively-powerful, massively fast “supertruck” that’s sure to blow you away!

1) IT’S NAMED, PURPOSELY, AFTER A LEGENDARY GAS-GUZZLER: GMC surely knew what they were doing when they called their first all-electric vehicle the “Hummer.” As you may recall, back in 1998, GMC parent company General Motors purchased the brand name “Hummer” from AM General, who had built the Humvee armored vehicle for the military. GM proceeded to build three different versions of the Hummer over the next decade, the H1, H2 and H3. None of them were particularly good on gas, with Car and Driver testing showing the H2 got 10 mpg city and 12 highway. Rising fuel costs in the mid-2000s caused the public to turn away from gas-guzzling SUVs, and the economic downturn of 2008 led to Hummer’s demise.

2) IT WILL LOOK LIKE A TRUCK: Though GMC has been understandably coy about showing off too much of the Hummer EV, what we do know is that it won’t be a stainless steel doorstop like Tesla’s goofy-looking, might-never-happen “Cybertruck.” Though teaser videos by GMC are mostly shot from either far away or super close-up, what you can see in GMC videos and photos looks a lot like traditional truck, with a cargo box, a crew cab and a front hood, though the hood appears to be very short (understandable, given that there’s no need for a large, bulky internal combustion engine up front or a radiator for that matter).

3) IT WILL HAVE REMOVABLE ROOF PANELS: Though GMC’s rival Jeep has been giving customers the ability to quickly blow the doors and roof off for years, it appears that the GMC Hummer EV will be getting in on the open-air fun with removable panels that open both the front and rear seats of the crew-cab up to the sky. A sturdy-looking roll-cage, including a central, rear-seat spar between the front and back hoops, stays in place. It is hard to see in videos GMC has released, but it also looks like at least the front doors are frameless and possibly removable as well.

4) IT WILL BE POWERFUL: Though GMC has been tight-lipped on mechanical details of the Hummer EV, including what kind of electric motors and batteries it will use, one thing we do know is numbers, including horsepower. GMC promises the Hummer EV will churn out over 1,000 horsepower, which should be more than enough to quickly change the minds of anybody worrying about a weak and temperamental electric powertrain. Currently, the highest-horsepower GMC truck you can buy is the 2020 GMC Sierra 1500 or HD with the 6.2-liter V8, putting out 420 horsepower. That’s several hundred ponies less than the projected output of the Hummer EV.

5) DID WE SAY “POWERFUL”? WE MEAN INCREDIBLY POWERFUL: Electric motors are well-known for their gargantuan torque output, but the amount of torque GMC engineers have managed to squeeze out of the Hummer EV is nothing short of astounding! How powerful is the GMC Hummer EV? Try 11,500 lb.-ft. of torque! For comparison, the 6.6-liter Duramax Turbo-Diesel in the 2021 GMC Sierra HD puts out 910 lb.-ft. of torque. The Hummer EV will have almost 13 Duramax Turbo-diesels-worth of grunt on demand, so the question isn’t “What can you tow?” it’s “What CAN’T you tow?”

6) IT WILL BE WICKED FAST, TOO: With supercar-level horsepower and the torque output of a Galactic Star Destroyer, you’d better believe that the Hummer EV is going to accelerate from a standing stop like a rocket sled. GMC has announced the Hummer EV can blast from zero to 60 miles per hour in under three seconds. At that rate, the Hummer EV should be able to hang with and possibly beat a 2021 Corvette C8 Stingray at the drag strip.

7) IT WILL BE ABLE TO “CRAB WALK”: In the build up to the October reveal, GMC released one last, incredible video. In it, a crab is out for a stroll on the beach when a truck with all-terrain tires on an eight-lug alloy rims rolls up the critter, which doesn’t budge. Then, before our eyes, the tires of the Hummer EV, front and rear, BOTH turn, and the truck steers diagonally to miss the crab. The message is: four-wheel steering, including the ability to drive horizontally! Not only should that make parking the Hummer EV a breeze, the wheels can turn independently of each other, it should also mean a serious reduction in the turning radius of the Hummer EV!

Are you as excited as we are about the groundbreaking GMC Hummer EV truck? We sure hope so, because it promises to be the biggest innovation in GMC trucks since the automatic transmission! Stay tuned for more details from the official blog of McLarty Daniel Buick GMC. Can’t wait? Check out our full selection of beautiful GMC trucks at our website right now.

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