WEBVTT 00:00.009 --> 00:04.030 You've heard a lot about the Hummer ev, over the past year 00:04.280 --> 00:12.590 you know, it has 1000 horsepower that it can crab walk diagonally and that it can go 0 to 60 in 3.5 seconds using watch 00:12.590 --> 00:18.700 to freedom mode. But what you haven't heard is what is it actually like to drive 00:19.020 --> 00:28.170 I'm Zane from GM Dash trucks.com and I just got back from Milford Michigan at G M's Milford Proving Grounds where I was among 00:28.170 --> 00:33.959 the first people in the entire world to drive the 2022 GMC Hummer 00:33.959 --> 00:41.840 Ev. The video you're about to watch was shot by General Motors and provided to me after the fact you see 00:41.840 --> 00:47.025 I was not allowed to bring any camera equipment on Milford proving grounds property 00:47.025 --> 00:52.555 Lest I accidentally film a future product that they don't want anybody to see yet 00:52.555 --> 01:00.424 Prototypes were running around everywhere around us. And GM wants to keep some of those details and vehicles secret for the future 01:00.424 --> 01:07.735 So I really don't blame them. We're going to start off with an action reel to give you an idea of where we are and 01:07.735 --> 01:13.540 what we're doing. Then we're gonna transition into a 20 minute drive with Jim Green 01:13.540 --> 01:22.550 a vehicle dynamics engineer for General Motors and Hummer EV. And then finish up that video with me talking back here and giving you my 01:22.550 --> 01:28.220 driving impressions about what you can expect if you've got one of these vehicles on order 01:28.220 --> 01:32.019 And let me tell you, you're not gonna want to miss what I have to say 01:32.269 --> 01:40.250 So without further ado, let's travel over to Milford Michigan and get behind the wheel of the all new GMC Hummer EV 01:40.250 --> 01:46.879 electric Super Truck. And here we are at General Motors Milford proving grounds 01:46.879 --> 01:56.139 We're about to take the All new Hummer ev the 1000 horsepower super truck for its very first spin by non GM 01:56.139 --> 02:04.139 employees and I am so honored to be one of those people and I've been looking forward to this for well over a year now 02:04.239 --> 02:10.259 So I just got to tell you IW why waste time. Let's get behind the wheel and see how it does 03:52.460 --> 03:56.710 So here we're gonna have uh kind of stop by the cones and once we're clear 03:56.839 --> 04:02.440 uh if you wanna go ahead, you can do an acceleration, just give you a taste of what the truck feels like in the gravel 04:04.000 --> 04:09.729 and uh be prepared, you might get a little bit of motion out of it, so kinda be ready to compensate 04:10.029 --> 04:14.389 And once you get to the other cones there, we'll just kind of go to coast and slow back down for the corner coming up 04:15.259 --> 04:24.799 ready whenever you're good to go. That's 04:24.799 --> 04:33.429 crazy. You can trust me. I know. I do. Wow. Wow. The 04:33.429 --> 04:37.140 uh, just to feel the mass of the vehicle take off like that and grip 04:37.820 --> 04:47.250 it was really impressive. Yeah, the, the motors, you know, I'm more traditional off road kind of background and 04:47.250 --> 04:50.820 uh, I love a V eight in a 4 to 1 T case. Right. But 04:51.170 --> 04:56.049 um, the motors have won me over. They're, uh, they're pretty incredible what they can do 04:56.690 --> 05:00.929 Yeah, I don't, that doesn't leave me wanting for a gas engine whatsoever 05:00.929 --> 05:05.049 It, it has the opposite effect of when I go back to my Silverado 05:05.049 --> 05:13.929 You know, it's a 2019. It's a nice truck. I love it. But the latency like the hesitation you get in the transmission where it's 05:13.929 --> 05:17.470 got to think about what it needs to do and there's parts moving this truck has none of that 05:18.459 --> 05:23.440 Yeah, this, this is dr wise, I think that's gonna win customers over big time 05:25.299 --> 05:29.709 So by default does is the four wheel steering always active and, and adjusting kind of 05:29.850 --> 05:35.660 So, uh, lower speeds you'll actually turn where the, the front wheels and the rear are out of phase 05:35.660 --> 05:41.119 That helps you get a tighter turn radius, more maneuverability, uh, as you get up to highway speeds 05:41.119 --> 05:45.609 So as your front tires turn, your rears will actually turn in phase and that's 05:45.609 --> 05:51.970 I, I believe it's right around 3025 to 30 miles an hour where that transition happens and that's completely automated 05:51.970 --> 05:57.049 Um, at higher speeds, we do use the active rear steer to help stabilize the vehicle 05:57.049 --> 06:01.529 It actually is tied into the brake control system. Ok. So it's kind of part of the stability control system 06:04.679 --> 06:11.929 But I, I think the key benefit is vehicle this size, you'll see the maneuverability gain you get with rear steer is pretty 06:11.929 --> 06:19.209 pretty phenomenal. Makes the truck very nimble, makes it super maneuverable. You can get it into things off road that you really shouldn't be able 06:19.209 --> 06:28.489 to get into, which is good and bad. I've 06:28.489 --> 06:32.850 had some people ask me if the overall weight of the vehicle 06:32.850 --> 06:37.899 I know it's gonna be like over 9000 pounds. Is that gonna affect its ability to go off 06:37.899 --> 06:42.149 Like how, how is that weight and being off road, like work together 06:42.510 --> 06:48.899 So, you know, depending on what surfaces you're on. Like, obviously, like you can't take a heavy duty truck in the sand and expect it 06:48.899 --> 06:55.399 to be perfect. Um This truck actually does incredibly well in the sand 06:55.399 --> 06:59.140 Um You know, so I don't think there's a trade off in that respect 06:59.410 --> 07:03.059 Uh If you're talking about like moab and things like that again on the rocks 07:03.260 --> 07:06.820 I don't think it's a big trade off. Uh There's more than enough power to compensate for the 07:06.820 --> 07:12.950 the mass of the vehicle. Um But in, in reality is I don't think it's that different than 07:13.079 --> 07:18.149 you know, like a HD pickup truck, to be honest. So, for me personally 07:18.739 --> 07:22.320 you know, I, I haven't seen a big trade off because of the mass necessarily. Um 07:22.320 --> 07:29.940 just because the system is designed around, you know, mass, we're gonna do a little bit of a camera demo here 07:30.089 --> 07:35.179 Uh, you've probably done a bit off roading and, you know, one of the classic things 07:35.179 --> 07:38.970 I mean, as you come up to a crest of a hill, right? You see the sky, uh 07:38.970 --> 07:45.829 and this is where the cameras are. Something again that I didn't think in my head initially 07:45.829 --> 07:53.070 I thought it was kind of a gimmick, but in reality, the cameras are a pretty nice feature off road and 07:53.160 --> 07:59.010 uh, kind of show you some of the views. Ok. And how many cameras just for my audience 07:59.010 --> 08:03.119 how many cameras are on this particular vehicle I'm trying to recall 08:03.119 --> 08:06.869 Was it eight or no? I think it's way more than that. Let me ask 08:08.160 --> 08:12.739 I believe it's 18. Now that you said it now, I'm like, I think it is 18 with ultra 08:12.739 --> 08:17.489 All the, I think is the correct number 18 different views that you can look at 08:18.869 --> 08:23.200 So people should be able to see anywhere, any situation they're in 08:23.519 --> 08:28.109 they're gonna have a good view to get a, uh, a handle on it 100% 08:28.290 --> 08:33.539 So there's a number of options. So each of these are kind of different controls 08:33.539 --> 08:37.280 Um, I'm looking at the underside of the, of the vehicle right now 08:37.409 --> 08:43.929 That's great. So, actually let's go ahead. We're gonna, I'm gonna have you put the nose right up the top of the hill and basically 08:43.929 --> 08:48.380 kind of like the point where you're about to go over, but you can't tell 08:48.380 --> 08:54.409 So if you stop right here. Yeah. So the, the beautiful thing about this right is if you've got rocks 08:54.559 --> 08:58.880 you can look at your front tires or your rears so you can kind of self spot yourself here 08:59.739 --> 09:05.119 Um You can do a split screen so you can see the top down and the front rear simultaneously 09:05.119 --> 09:14.289 My daughters hate this. They get car sick. Um You can have a front view where you're actually looking at the hill 09:14.289 --> 09:19.239 here or rear. If you've got to back down, you can do these kind of top down 09:19.239 --> 09:25.390 which are more valuable. Like if you're in like a rock field or something and you're kind of crawling through or you can do these 09:25.390 --> 09:30.059 other kind of hybrid views where you just need a different angle to see what you're about to climb 09:30.710 --> 09:35.320 Um You know, I I find the most usable, you know, if you're in the technical stuff 09:35.320 --> 09:42.030 these help, but typically what I'm doing is, um, do that like these guys right here 09:42.320 --> 09:46.599 Um So like the first ride trip we did in Mo Al Open Heiser rode with me quite a bit 09:46.960 --> 09:50.950 Al uses his view all day. I didn't even get out of the truck to spot him. I would just like 09:50.950 --> 09:56.309 show him the line because you can do this and now you got the guidelines on in front of you 09:56.309 --> 10:00.200 You know, where you're gonna end up and what you're gonna hit and what not you, what you're not gonna hit 10:00.200 --> 10:05.679 And even when we do have uh spotters. So, you know, some of our, some of the guys we worked with are very experienced off 10:05.679 --> 10:11.030 road. And so I help kind of spot the larger team a lot of times you find out you're watching them on the camera because 10:11.030 --> 10:15.169 you get a better high def view because they're obscured by the hood. Um 10:15.380 --> 10:21.380 and when you mess up, they don't look as mad or disappointed. But yeah 10:21.380 --> 10:25.489 if you wanna go ahead, um, one little trick, if you wanna play, uh, on the downside 10:25.489 --> 10:29.909 if you wanna let the vehicle coast, once we go over and then you can use the paddle to kind of help break 10:30.309 --> 10:36.570 So it just kind of push and hold in that region paddle 10:36.570 --> 10:42.900 it'll work going downhill, it'll work on the level and it just gives you like a bit of an elevated boost and it's dependent on 10:42.900 --> 10:50.549 speed. Um, sort of kind of fade in as it stops and this little display is showing me not only how much 10:50.549 --> 10:54.549 uh, wattage I'm or kilowatts, I'm getting back from the vehicle and regenerative 10:54.679 --> 10:58.830 But when I press the accelerator pedal, it's showing me how much is going out to the 10:58.919 --> 11:04.200 So it's, it's a real time either what you're expending or what you're regen back 11:04.200 --> 11:11.830 It's all power up. It's the equivalent to like a fuel economy gauge almost in a instantaneous 11:12.979 --> 11:16.549 But this is a direct, you know, this is what's going out of the battery. So 11:16.549 --> 11:21.000 you know, horsepower kilowatts. Um, you know, so kilowatts are, that's your power basically 11:21.000 --> 11:26.390 right? You know, so if you're sitting there in park with your laptop plugged in 11:26.390 --> 11:31.900 it'll show like a one kilowatt value. Ok? To let you know that you're your burning energy 11:32.059 --> 11:37.659 So you'll see the trucks kinda interesting to watch. They're doing a little bit of a steering demo 11:38.049 --> 11:41.719 So if you wanna kind of bear to the right and you'll see the cones there 11:41.719 --> 11:50.760 the pointer. Yeah. Actually I'm gonna have you go right between these two guys over here if you put about your 11:50.760 --> 11:58.159 driver's door, uh just pass those and uh a little bit warm if we could 11:58.830 --> 12:02.929 That's great. So if you wanna just go ahead, do a full lock, turn to the left 12:02.929 --> 12:12.270 so just kind of steer all over the left, just give you an idea of what sort of turn radius you have for parking maneuverability 12:12.489 --> 12:20.460 It's really interesting because you can feel it's, it's a very different uh feeling from a normal vehicle that only turns with the front wheels 12:21.919 --> 12:28.039 and when we go to train mode a little bit later, there's actually a game where we bump up that ratio 12:29.950 --> 12:34.809 It won't help you as far as the full turn circle. But as far as maneuverability 12:34.809 --> 12:38.799 um it gains it up and it helps the truck really follow your steer inputs 12:38.880 --> 12:47.049 Cool. And here for the first portion, I'm just going to have you basically do the slalom and this is a fairly tight cone course 12:47.049 --> 12:53.369 So just kind of drive through it, you know, fairly slow. But gives you an idea of how tightly you can wind round through trail 13:01.650 --> 13:07.320 Incredible agility for what the size of this vehicle is. If you had a long wheel base pickup truck 13:07.320 --> 13:14.380 this would be very difficult or impossible to get through. Especially without really thinking about it 13:15.140 --> 13:21.349 man. You know, looking at that course, I'm like there's no way I can turn through it and then I'm cutting those cones even shorter 13:21.349 --> 13:25.369 than it seems like you would. Yeah, you've got room to spare, basically. Very cool 13:26.140 --> 13:33.200 So in addition to the, the modes, you know, we've got additional controls here for raising and lowering the vehicle or steering 13:33.640 --> 13:37.479 Um, so we're gonna go into crab mode. So if you want to do a push and hold 13:38.200 --> 13:46.760 we kind of wait for it here. So we actually have, you do a push and hold and you'll see that little timer 13:49.830 --> 13:57.789 ok. So now I'll do push and hold again. So this is how you engage crab mode 13:57.789 --> 14:01.429 It's something you have to do on your end. So basically stop. But we actually turn it back up 14:02.789 --> 14:09.780 But it was so much fun to push the button. Oh, kind of gets you ready to go 14:09.780 --> 14:18.309 like, feel like you're doing something and it's kind of a, a nice little safety feature where it very deliberate so the driver can't accidentally 14:18.309 --> 14:25.460 engage this. Uh, so you've got to be stopped. Um, but you'll see now there's a little crab icon and basically what this does is 14:25.460 --> 14:32.260 now you're in crab walk. And so at lower speeds, basically below 20 MPH gives you the full effect 14:32.260 --> 14:36.340 Uh, as you accelerate up, it'll actually fade back to normal and turn itself back off 14:36.340 --> 14:40.469 So you can't drive down the highway with it. But if you wanna go ahead and kind of feel 14:40.950 --> 14:45.950 you know, the first say 100 degrees of steering input will give you more lateral 14:45.950 --> 14:51.000 If you go full lock, the front tires will still keep turning, so they will overcome the rears 14:51.960 --> 14:57.000 Wow, that's so weird. It's kind of weird seeing the horizon move in that way 14:57.260 --> 15:10.799 Yeah, like this, you're like drifting over. Oh 15:10.799 --> 15:15.159 man, I'm gonna show my friends this so much. Yeah. So like, like Aaron said 15:15.159 --> 15:22.719 it's kind of a cool little party trick feature, but there's definitely times where it gives you an option to take a line off road 15:22.719 --> 15:27.859 that doesn't exist for other trucks, you know. So it's not something I'd see using every two minutes 15:27.859 --> 15:33.849 But, uh, you get into like a, you know, trail and moab like poison spider 15:34.229 --> 15:37.979 you get a bad balance. This kind of helps you save yourself. Yeah 15:37.979 --> 15:44.059 if you get stuck up against a tree and you don't wanna turn out of it, you can kinda horizontally shift your way out of 15:44.059 --> 15:50.609 it. Instead I have a dent in my, one of my development vehicles that was because we didn't crab boat out of a spot we 15:50.609 --> 15:58.349 should have. And so to disable current mode, you come back to a stop here 15:58.640 --> 16:02.299 So you could actually just accelerate away and it'll eventually, you know 16:02.299 --> 16:07.340 time itself back out. Or if I do a single push, um, we'll go back to auto steering 16:07.520 --> 16:11.630 If you chose that, you know, maybe you want to back the vehicle up, you could actually turn rear 16:11.630 --> 16:15.820 steer off just to help make it, you know, maneuver a little more traditionally. Um 16:15.880 --> 16:21.900 but normally it's gonna operate an auto. So just pushing the button will either disable it or go to auto 16:21.900 --> 16:32.080 but holding it will bring it to crowd. Ok. Rear wheels have up to a 10 degree steering ankle in what will 16:32.080 --> 16:35.640 actually go to 10 degrees and you'll see the indicator of the dash 16:35.640 --> 16:39.530 The fronts can achieve about 45 which is fairly typical for a truck 16:40.750 --> 16:45.210 Is there any way to disable the engine sound? Completely or is it just different 16:46.080 --> 16:53.140 So, if we go to here by going straight to there? Yep 16:53.140 --> 17:03.320 Yep. Ok. Keep your end straight and you'll see the rock. So I got it in here and 17:03.320 --> 17:10.250 actually I'll correct that it doesn't disable, it'll let you change it in between different things 17:10.250 --> 17:17.910 But for regulations, you do have to have some. Now, is that on the outside as well or just on the inside 17:17.910 --> 17:23.589 Sure. And when we come up to the stop here, if you put your window down, there's like a dring noise that's kind of subtle 17:26.599 --> 17:31.079 So I'm kind of probably hearing a combination of maybe what's coming from the outside and 17:31.760 --> 17:38.699 or is it, is it, is some piped in through the speakers on the inside or is it just so you can hear that that's 17:38.699 --> 17:45.270 the pedestrian noise that's like a mandated noise and you'll hear there's all kinds of jets and car noises and stuff 17:45.270 --> 17:51.079 We had one that sounded like angels at one point. Uh People looked at that one really funny 17:53.119 --> 17:57.349 Um So what we're gonna do is actually I'll have you rotate the map to the right 17:57.510 --> 18:06.160 We're gonna go to train mode. Here we go. So keep going 18:06.160 --> 18:12.060 It's the sky right here. This disables stability control. So it brings up a little driver prompt 18:12.060 --> 18:17.339 Uh If you don't select that, you won't get the full train mode. Uh But once you go into train mode 18:17.530 --> 18:21.979 you'll actually start to raise the vehicle, you'll see, there's a little icon in the upper right 18:22.369 --> 18:28.589 Uh, that indicates the mode plus the state of the vehicle. You can always confirm that if you do a push on the up down 18:28.589 --> 18:33.229 um, eye controls. Um, and thats feel it kind of moving up 18:33.910 --> 18:39.099 And if you want on your right hand side, if you take that uh at three o'clock 18:39.099 --> 18:42.729 if you kind of scroll up and down there, um, it's the toggle 18:43.939 --> 18:48.609 there's actually a suspension height indicator and these are all customizable. Of course 18:48.920 --> 18:52.739 this will let you see as the vehicle raises and lowers. But more importantly 18:52.739 --> 18:57.689 when you're off road, it gives you an indication of, you know, the rebound or j traveling 18:58.680 --> 19:06.709 Yeah, I'm seeing a display that shows me all the tires and they're like heights and elevations uh to get a better view on where 19:06.709 --> 19:15.770 each tire is vertically and you'll see that it'll move in real time here for us and we'll 19:15.770 --> 19:19.449 just kind of fall along there's a gravel that they lay down. Ok 19:21.150 --> 19:30.189 Now that I'm in terrain mode, my throttle pedal is a little bit more sensitive and it has changed just 19:30.189 --> 19:34.800 the overall demeanor of the vehicle quite a bit. You can look at this as a 19:34.800 --> 19:39.530 this is kind of, you know, train mode has two levels. If you're in D or L 19:39.810 --> 19:43.800 it gives you more of a four low effect in L. So like a 4 to 1 T case 19:43.979 --> 19:51.229 whereas AD is somewhere between four high and four low, so it'll give you some brake activation to help kind of slow the vehicle through 19:51.229 --> 19:56.400 motor and brake pressure. Um D is kind of a more ideal for like this type of thing 19:56.670 --> 20:03.180 L is more for if you are in real steep terrain or you've got sharp drop off where you want to have that extra assist 20:03.369 --> 20:08.300 So you don't slam the truck back down on the ground, kind of gives you that control and precision cool 20:08.780 --> 20:14.089 Um So from here, we'll just kind of follow the line I'd recommend is kind of there to the left a bit 20:14.089 --> 20:18.069 Ok. And you'll see there's rocks, we can try to run up on that left side 20:19.619 --> 20:25.310 Another one of those situations is hard left turn where the four wheel steering has made a huge difference 20:27.459 --> 20:33.479 Now, we're gonna go over a pile of rocks that I would have would never attempt in pretty much any other vehicle 20:42.050 --> 20:48.369 But this thing just uh no problem at all. So, you know 20:48.369 --> 20:56.689 you do have three independent rear motors here. And what that does is allows us to control the torque a little more precisely on the 20:56.689 --> 21:03.839 rear. So, you know, the, the rear locker, uh the fact that we don't have a mechanical rear locker takes advantage of the fact that 21:03.839 --> 21:08.369 you know, the motors are completely independent. I can put all of my torque on a single motor 21:08.369 --> 21:15.290 I can have, you know, 5000 Newton meters of torque driving forward, I want and I could have 5000 Newton meters of torque driving backwards 21:15.290 --> 21:20.689 on the other if I wanted. Um, it's really all and how we tune it and calibrate it far better 21:20.689 --> 21:25.949 more tunable than any mechanical or, you know, mechanical system you could ever devise 21:25.949 --> 21:33.579 Yeah, because in a traditional vehicle you're tied to an engine and transmission, you cannot do you know those separate totally independent torque controls like 21:33.579 --> 21:40.839 we have here unless you throw a lot of weight and clutches and even then they're still not capable of uh the full range 21:40.979 --> 21:49.569 It'll tell me to apply the brake. It's priming the system here 21:59.380 --> 22:46.420 That was like a God five minutes. It's 22:46.420 --> 22:51.979 pretty fun. And to think that you literally take this truck down the class 22:52.790 --> 23:01.319 really. We, we've got point the spider or steel bender at low drive right off the trail covered in mud and go do 23:02.609 --> 23:08.520 I don't know, two vehicles kind of have that dual capability. The range of 23:09.219 --> 23:18.319 right. Certainly the conditions, the roads and it, it's just amazing at everything 23:18.319 --> 23:21.829 whether you're on the road or off road or going over boulders or 23:21.829 --> 23:29.449 you know, showing off to your friends with the WTF mode. If you could see my face without this mask 23:29.449 --> 23:36.079 my jaw would be like on the floor. It's incredible. So, one of the other things I love and this is what really sells me 23:36.079 --> 23:43.650 is like the day to day driving. When you're on the highway, you got just kind of the ability to pass and accelerate 23:44.060 --> 23:51.780 You know, we're going 55 right here, just how effortless merging on the expressway like that 23:51.780 --> 23:56.579 It was 5580. Basically, you just power right on demand at all times 23:56.579 --> 24:01.680 Don't hesitate how much of the battery charged as like a typical 24:02.280 --> 24:06.160 a lot of freedom. But you talk very little. Uh, I mean 24:06.160 --> 24:10.709 you're, you're probably talking a percent or two. And so if you're out there and you do it repeatedly 24:11.239 --> 24:17.040 then yeah, you, you start to perform battery now but you'll find driving 24:17.040 --> 24:21.140 you know, day to day at highway speeds, things like that. It's not 24:21.229 --> 24:27.729 it's not like it's 5 10% every time it's nowhere near that you could go and you could show some friends that a few times 24:27.729 --> 24:31.439 and not have to be worried about whether you can get home or not. Oh, yeah. Absolutely 24:31.439 --> 24:38.040 Yeah, it's, you can do dozens basically. I'm sure there's an actual limit to that 24:38.709 --> 24:43.420 But the, can you, like, overheat the motors or use so much 24:43.420 --> 24:48.229 Uh, they, they won't let you, uh, basically they'll start to reduce your power to kind of manage thermal 24:48.439 --> 24:53.270 So just like a normal engine would start to change how, how efficient it is and you know 24:53.270 --> 25:02.380 how it performs. This will be the same thing. But it's doing basically with controllers watching the temperature it'll do certain 25:02.380 --> 25:07.680 things like, you know, cabin cooling, it'll start to reduce your cabin cooling to help keep the motors cool 25:07.680 --> 25:12.750 And the battery, once it gets to the even hotter temperatures, you'll actually start to reduce the Torvill 25:13.560 --> 25:18.349 And that all happens kind of in a very seamless way. So, as it starts to creep up on you 25:18.349 --> 25:27.619 you don't even know how it basically prolongs that system's capability. We're going 65 25:31.609 --> 25:41.560 So that's my thing. She got it. And 25:41.560 --> 25:45.849 one of the thing has such massive tires, it's got digging all day long 25:46.750 --> 25:53.410 Yeah, if you can see the amount of racks that you threw 1000 horsepower is uh very impressive 25:57.800 --> 26:02.079 Yeah, we were, we took the truck to the Silver Lakes in you 26:04.170 --> 26:11.439 I don't think anyone's face stopped smiling. I mean, the TRX can pretty much climbs anything to point them out 26:14.369 --> 26:18.819 Acceleration of the sand and it's, if it were the tr to shine 26:18.819 --> 26:25.520 I absolutely pay for that. Thank you so much. It was my pleasure 26:26.849 --> 26:32.390 Something we've been working on for quite a while. So it's, it's really exciting to be able to kind of demo it here 26:33.729 --> 26:38.199 What an experience and what a truck well done. Thank you. So 26:38.199 --> 26:44.650 what do you think? I got to admit my time behind the wheel was really exciting 26:44.729 --> 26:50.119 So here comes the time you've been waiting for, I'm gonna share with you some of my notes and I hope you'll forgive me 26:50.119 --> 26:56.619 But I have written some of them down. There's so much I'd like to tell you and I don't want to forget anything 26:56.719 --> 27:02.449 So, first off, I really enjoyed my time behind the wheel. I think you might know 27:02.449 --> 27:10.829 But I have a addition one on order for myself and this few hours behind the wheel that I did last week 27:11.119 --> 27:15.420 it only has made me even more excited to take delivery of my Hummer 27:15.420 --> 27:21.119 Ev in just a few months, but overall, it's a torque monster 27:21.119 --> 27:27.140 Al Oppen Heiser, the chief engineer of Hummer Ev, let us know that at the motors 27:27.140 --> 27:34.719 the uh three electric motors are putting out around 1200 pound feet of torque before gear reduction 27:34.719 --> 27:40.170 which is absolutely insane. And you can feel it when you accelerate 27:40.260 --> 27:49.130 It's kind of like heavy equipment in a way. The vehicle is like a tank and those big meaty tires just start clawing away at 27:49.130 --> 27:56.089 the ground, the instant you push down the accelerator pedal. And that leads me to my next point 27:56.359 --> 28:04.579 All of the input on this thing is instant. Unlike a regular gas powered vehicle where when you push your foot on the pedal 28:04.579 --> 28:09.540 there's this movement, the gas needs to be fed to the engine, the engine needs to accelerate 28:09.660 --> 28:15.604 The mechanical functions need to transfer through the transmission in the Hummer ev 28:15.604 --> 28:25.464 It is accelerator pedal and instant acceleration almost instantaneously. It's kind of uh uh satisfying 28:25.464 --> 28:34.035 It's shocking almost like using an RC electric car, you pull the trigger and it moves right away and that's what it's like on the 28:34.035 --> 28:41.619 Hummer ev, off road, the 13.5 inches of suspension travel is impressive 28:41.619 --> 28:46.459 You soak up every bump and rut like it's not even there 28:46.579 --> 28:55.770 We drove on a road course that GM didn't include when they provided us with our footage and we went over simulated railroad crossings at 28:55.770 --> 29:00.959 highway speeds between 65 and 75 miles an hour. And the Hummer was like 29:00.959 --> 29:08.949 what? I didn't feel anything. It, it just glided over them and the suspension just soaked up those 29:08.949 --> 29:14.430 those railroad crossings like they weren't even there. Uh, it was really 29:14.430 --> 29:21.310 really impressive when it came to crawling over the boulders. It just climbed right over them 29:21.310 --> 29:27.300 I mean, I, I, it was really a non-event. I can't, I wish I could tell you about how 29:27.560 --> 29:36.859 uh, crazy it was or how it was challenging, but the combination of the four wheel steer and the huge suspension travel literally 29:36.859 --> 29:43.170 and, and just all the torque vectoring that it can do between all the different wheels and the locked rear axles 29:43.170 --> 29:48.040 It just climbed over and went over it like nobody's business. No drama 29:48.040 --> 29:53.859 no mess, no fuss. No nothing. And then you got to talk about WTF mode 29:53.859 --> 29:59.709 Wow. What an experience. We've seen it. We've seen clips, we've heard GM talk about it 29:59.979 --> 30:05.579 but in all honesty, you will never appreciate it until you experience it in person 30:06.040 --> 30:14.989 My first impression when Jim pushed down the accelerator pedal was that we had been rear ended because it was this violent acceleration from a 30:14.989 --> 30:21.089 stop. The thing just kicked forward as if, uh, a vehicle had hit us from the back 30:21.089 --> 30:29.140 or this massive creature had kicked our rear tailgate propelling us forward and then it just kept on accelerating before we knew it 30:29.140 --> 30:32.819 We were going not only 60 miles an hour and 3.5 seconds 30:32.819 --> 30:40.095 but then 7080 climbing from there, it uh really was a lot of fun 30:40.095 --> 30:46.365 It put a huge smile on my face and I can imagine there's gonna be a lot of new Hummer ev owners who can't wait 30:46.365 --> 30:51.706 to show that feature to their friends, crab walking and four wheel steering 30:51.706 --> 30:58.446 like I mentioned are really, really unique features. Crab walk. Yeah, it's gonna be a party trick that you're gonna show to your friends in 30:58.446 --> 31:06.371 your driveway or going down the road, but off road on a trail when you're pinned up against a tree or you're in a tricky 31:06.371 --> 31:15.432 situation, it's gonna come in really useful and just the four wheel steering by itself will allow you to maneuver in places and 31:15.432 --> 31:22.072 positions that you wouldn't even dream of. Had you been in a full size or even a mid-sized truck 31:22.072 --> 31:29.869 It genuinely felt more maneuverable than even a Colorado ZR two. So with all that said 31:29.869 --> 31:36.819 I hope you've enjoyed this video. I had a lot of fun being there and being inside of it to film it 31:37.050 --> 31:45.939 And I've got to thank GMC and their crew for inviting me out to Milford to be one of those first people in the Hummer 31:45.939 --> 31:53.020 Ev, it was an incredible experience and it's only made me more excited to get behind the wheel again 31:53.339 --> 32:02.890 If you really enjoyed this, please take a moment to subscribe, head on over to GM Dash trucks.com and read my written full first 32:02.890 --> 32:09.119 drive review. We've got some more pictures over there that weren't included in this video and stay tuned 32:09.219 --> 32:16.589 We should be getting our own Hummer in the next few months and GMC has promised me more time behind the wheel in the near 32:16.589 --> 32:22.839 future. So I'm Zane from GM Dash trucks.com. Thanks for watching and I'll see you again soon