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The GMC Hummer EV presents what I like to think that it is a very American solution to download as much diversity as imaginable of an electric vehicle: use the giant battery that can be collected. It’s like Hot Rodding 101, but with a giant battery instead of a giant engine. And on Hummer Ev3x Hummer Superior beach, you get up to 312 miles (502 km) on the beach evaluated through the EPA of its 20 modules and 170 kWh Battery.
But it is a positive number even when the weather is beautiful. And when it is not good?
Tim Esterdahl of the Van Chain + SUV YouTube channel discovered a test through the fireplace (or the snow?) This weekend when he left his city in Nebraska to take a flight to Denver at 188 miles away. Normally, the Hummer EV would be more than for the task, but Nebraska brings a climate that is far from being optimal for electrical conduction. Temperatures have been there for teenagers in recent days and negative at night.
Making this flight at that time is a bit painful. The upper temperature of that day around 14 degrees F (O -10 C. ), but this is a very attractive EV winter beach test.
As Tim explains from the beginning, the Hummer EV begins the day loaded 100%. This can be read as 285 miles (459 km), so that the SUV already estimates approximately a 10%beach. He goes to Cheyenne, Wyoming because he knows that there are load stations there, and is triggered in the middle of temperatures with a figure and snow in general.
Tim interprets it intelligent here. Precedes the internal cabin while the Hummer EV is connected, which warms it long before it was in a position to leave. Then, once his trip began, he composes the radiator, but leaves the seats with heating to maintain energy. It is also intelligent when it comes to loading; Make a very early decision that if you want juice, you don’t want to be one hundred percent for several hours, but only to get around one hundred miles, enough to succeed in your destination. (It’s a bit like managing an electric road unless you have everything to kill).
It also points very well that having this giant battery on the floor of Hummer EV is helping to stay in the middle of the charming and low gravity, which is helping general stability and weight distribution when Slipperyarray things, as I have already Written, electric cars are higher in the winter than they drive in winter. of what many other people think yes.
But the commitment will be reduced by the general beach because without blood they have an effect on efficiency. And as you can see, those are valid driving conditions in winter, not just a soft breeze:
As I said. Cold.
But Tim has a tight schedule to maintain, so he undertakes to pass, carefully. It has fulfilled by the regenerative braking of Hummer EV, which also gives a higher degree of control in situations such as this because the genuine brake pedal is used less while descending the hills. Unfortunately, in snow situations like that, Super Cruise has come out, and electric cars do not heat their caps like fuel cars do, so it treats more ice than an ice cream vehicle.
After traveling around 90 miles to Cheyenne, Tim points out that he only has 98 miles. A Hummer EV is not a king of power for an intelligent day; Here, the mixture of road speeds and the bloodless leaves it with approximately 98 miles. Hummer EV also reads 1. 3 miles consisting of KWh of power. “Just burn this battery,” he said. Tim is in the appearance of caution (and will still have to use the facilities), therefore, the previous invoices that the Hummer EV does not present it, then drops a sandwich that does not respect the cabin.
And his conclusion here is quite fair: “The consultation in my head is, is it that this is a Passod fortune or a failure?” It was a Passod fortune, he says, since he could pass to the airport on time, but with a prevention on the road that would take place despite everything. At the same time, estimates around $ 30 or $ 40 for public burden.
But yes: as comfortable and exclusive as the Hummer EV, this giant battery and this sidewalk of almost 9,000 pounds are inconveniences for winter diversity. At these temperatures, a complete diversity of 314 miles is out of the consultation, as would be on any road trip, but suffers more of the same in this control in the weather without blood.
In the end, this is a correct summary of EV Winter Road’s manufacturing plans. You will have to think in advance, know where your loaders are and will have benefits of convenience and traction that can exceed fuel cars. But there is still a big difference between the estimated diversity of an electric vehicle in the blood and what it can get.
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