Posted on 07/27/2022 5:55:37 AM PDT by Red Badger
Hummer has re-enlisted in the U.S. Army.
The military branch has purchased a GMC Hummer EV pickup for evaluation.
The vehicle will be a top of the line Hummer EV Edition 1, which has a list price of $112,595. The exact amount paid by the Army was not announced, but it will be delivered by the end of August.
The tests will be used to better understand how a commercial electric like the Hummer EV pickup can perform on a military operational mission profile as it looks to develop a future electric light reconnaissance vehicle (eLRV), Steve Herrick, product director, Ground Mobility Vehicles, U.S. Army Program Executive Office Combat Support and Combat Service Support told Fox News Autos.
The Edition 1 is equipped with every feature offered on the Hummer EV, including a 1,000 horsepower tri-motor drivetrain and an air suspension system with an "Extract" mode that can raise the vehicle by six inches if it gets stuck.
The Hummer brand was originally spawned by the commercialization of the military High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, which was nicknamed the Humvee after entering service in 1984.
The U.S. military is in the process of replacing the aging Humvee fleet with a variety of vehicles, including a proposed Joint Light Tactical Vehicle that GM Defense is competing for.
GM Defense in 2020 began supplying the Army with an Infantry Squad Vehicle based off of the high-performance Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 pickup.
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Yep
Coming soon: Electric Tanks!
https://warriormaven.com/land/abrams-tanks
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a28985236/future-tanks-powered-electricity/
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Not going to be funny when all the .mil EVs batteries go dead at the same time, and they can't be juiced up.
Unlike liquid fuel vehicles, that can be refueled in minutes, anywhere.
Well, that explains the 23B loan to GM.
It should be politically incorrect to piss tax payer money away on useless junk..and pie in the sky pipe dreams.
I was a little concerned at first, but then I found out that all battlefields are equipped with the latest EV chargers and hookups!
Iām sure some fruitcake General will try to pimp some idea like that.
We truly live in Clown World.
Brilliantā¦..
Only gay and/or trans service people should have to operate them.
Heās white, so his ideas are racist, misogynistic, and patriarchalā¦
Just wait till an IED cooks off the batteriesā¦ā¦.sorry, no drinking water - we just expended 32,000 gallons of water extinguishing a hummer, and two more are still burning.
Alternatively
Charge!
I’m charging as fast as I can, sir.
Military vehicles from tanks to trucks to humvees can be refueled anywhere, in minutes, by bringing up a fuel truck that also runs on diesel or gas.
Military EVs that go flat on or near a battlefield will be dead ducks.
Yes, and the batteries will increase weight for travel over soft terrain.
What did you expect? We have trannys in military-issue high heels screaming across the battlefield, yelling “I’ll scratch your eyes out, you bitch!”
And you expected they’d be better on Electric Vehicles?
China just moved up the Operation Taiwan time table.
They’re gonna starve Taiwan out.
Just posted this on another post about the military and electric vehicles:
Seems like the military has forgotten that during a modern war the enemy will use EMPs to disable most electronics.
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