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After 10 years, GM resurrects the gas-guzzling Hummer as an EV monster

Snacks / Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Are We There Yet?... Like the 2005 Ice Cube family classic, the mid-2000s were filled with gas-guzzling cars that could fit entire football teams (RIP Lincoln Navigator). Now GM is bringing bulky back by reviving the Hummer, which it discontinued in 2009 when it went bankrupt. But now it's the opposite of a gas-guzzler:

  • The world's first all-electric supertruck: What GM unveiled in a (mildly terrifying) commercial during the World Series on Tuesday.
  • GM's Hummer EV will be an electric pickup beast with 1K horsepower that goes zero to 60 in three seconds. BTW: LeBron is repping.

Smells Musky... GM has made big moves in the EV world, and is now competing against Tesla with the Hummer. It's set to go on sale in a year – likely ahead of Elon’s Cybertruck.

  • $20B: How much GM plans to invest in autonomous and all-electric vehicles through 2025, led by the Hummer pickup.
  • $2B: How much GM just said it's pouring into factories to build its Cadillac EV. It plans to launch 22 new electrified vehicles by 2023.
  • $2B: How much GM was going to hand over to produce cars for e-truck startup Nikola. That's on ice after fraud allegations against the startup.

This is a mainstream milestone for EVs... Everyone's talking about Tesla, but EVs were just 2.6% of global car sales in 2019. GM's sustainable version of its nostalgic, ultra-unsustainable car could lure more non-EV people to the electric side.

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