In June, General Motors announced that his GM Defense department had won a multimillion-dollar contract to produce and the U.S. Army’s new Infantry Defense Vehicle (ISV), an army vehicle that stores about 90% of its mechanical parts with the Chevrolet Colorado ZR2. Medium van. As the first main touch received through GM Defense, the ISV is just the beginning, as the department resorts to long-term products, one of which may be a variant of the army of the upcoming GMC Hummer EV.
In an interview with GM Authority, GM Defense President, David Albritton, alluded to exactly such a possibility.
“GM has announced that it will be launched with an electric truck with Hummer battery [GMC] battery in 2021. It’s a full-size truck with a 400-mile diversity, a torque of 1,000 pounds, a high-performance vehicle. This can simply provide a base platform for an electric vehicle to use in the context of the army,” says Albritton.
While it clarifies that today there is nothing definitive about paintings, Albritton also notes that “we would like to position ourselves as the company capable of offering such functions if they are [by the customer]”.
GM has a desirable history with Hummer. All in 1992, when AM General, an automobile manufacturer specializing in the military and advertising sectors, began providing its high-mobility multi-wheeled vehicle (HMMWV) to the civilian market under the Hummer logo. In 1999, GM acquired the rights to the Hummer logo and continued to provide the original civilian Hummer as H1 until June 2006.
The H1 followed through the Hummer H2, which was built through AM General despite its design and commercialization through General Motors. The vehicle was introduced in 2002 and was produced until January 2009. The H2 continued through the Hummer H3, which was a complete effort by GM in terms of development, design, marketing and manufacturing.
GM closed the Hummer logo and discontinued all Hummer products for bankruptcy. Several efforts were made to sell the rights to the logo and automobiles, but all failed.
Soon, GM will relaunch Hummer, but as an independent brand. Instead, the new Hummer will be a sub-brand of GMC. It will be presented next year with two products: the GMC Hummer EV van followed by the GMC Hummer EV pickup truck. As the call suggests, any of the models will be electric cars with battery life with a diversity of 400 miles, while it will provide revolutionary amounts of strength and torque. The van is expected to start reaching dealerships in the fall of 2021 as a 2022 model, while the SUV will look like about a year later. Both full-size electric models will provide detachable roof panels, intelligent off-road features and the latest technologies in convenience and convenience.
If a military edition of the GMC Hummer EV van comes to market, that will be the Humvee (HMMWV) for the quality of the Hummer H1 customer.
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Interesting because the use of an army electric vehicle is limited only to the base?
No. It would go beyond BEV. Stay tuned, more info to come.
Hey @Alex Luft, do you have ANY info or even rumors on when the new Hummer EV will drop? Anything?? I’m desperate for a bone, man…I’m getting KILLED by my Ford friends over here with this Bronco…
Sometime next Spring. Or early next year.
Bla, bla, bla, more corporate spin from GM, who still believes it’s the world’s largest automaker, just release the hummer now and don’t continue to tell us about a long-term imaginable version
What about freeing him now and killing the bronco hahaha?
Unfortunately, Hummer will be an exclusively electric logo and will be charged at least twice as much as the Bronco. It will be placed in its own elegance of EV SUV. As general manager, I need the general to jump to the Wrangler/Bronco segment, but I don’t see it happening. EVs and BCVs are the only two things that are happening in Barra’s brains lately. ?
When I bought my Jeep Wrangler last month, there were many “basic” models on the floor in Fenton, Michigan. You’re not tough enough.
I expect the Hummer line will start EV but will spread to a number of things in the line including ICE and Fuel Cell along with the BEV.
It’s a strong logo and, by first making an EV version, it will help replace the negative symbol that the school children were hanging at a time when GM had no cash to counter those claims.
Note that the Bronco does not have the Ford emblem on the outside and only a embossed panel inside the tailgate with Ford on it,
For already has two models of Bronco’s out and I expect they will make this a brand under the Ford banner. This is what GM is doing with Hummer as it is a Brand under GMC this time and no expensive stand alone dealers to work with, This makes it cheaper to do and cheaper to make changes as time passes.
The Hummer and Bronco both will be much more like Jeep with multiple off road models and I hope innovation to go with it
The blessing for GM is they have a much bigger canvas to work with as Hummer has a look but in a wide variation vs Jeep and Bronco that have to stick closer to heritage styling that limits some things.
Well, other people like to think outside the box, so ICE is needed.
Opinions and truth would possibly be at odds.
A vehicle like a Wrangler with a 2.7 Turbo would be very effective and ideal for off-roading. This can do more for GM than any politically correct position.
GM cant figure out what to do with the other divisions, now wants to add another? Couldn’t this be GMC and let GMC have more of a identity separate from Chevrolet?
Nobody’s a division. It’s a gmC brand.
Registered stocks of GMC, Denali and Hummer are invaluable. Run them in a department and under GMC’s network of brokers and that will generate the kind of cash a Cadillac earns.
Please note that the Denali has more titles than any other GM call and has led GMC to the most sensitive as a percentage of GM’s earnings.
If you like GMC, fine. Don’t be delusional enough to think it’s bigger than your Chevy neighbors. I was inspired by the Sierra Denali until I opened the door and saw that it was no bigger than the Silverado LTZ.
It doesn’t matter if they first publish the Hummer EV (which you’ve been waiting for for 7 months and there’s still no confirmation date for when everyone sees it), then they allow them to communicate their long-term plans.
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