Posted on 11/18/2022 5:49:54 AM PST by lowbridge
It seems like the apple doesn’t really fall too far from the tree. While the GMC Hummer EV is a zero-emissions vehicle designed to be a strong statement of General Motors’ dedication to the electric vehicle revolution, some of the pickup truck’s behavior definitely seems to be very similar to its gas-guzzling combustion-powered predecessors.
The Hummer EV is equipped with a mammoth battery pack that has roughly 210 kWh of capacity. That’s about the size of a Model S Plaid and Model X Plaid’s battery pack combined. With this in mind, it is no surprise that charging such a massive battery would take quite a bit of power. This was something that became evident during a charging session at an Electrify America station.
YouTube host Kyle Conner of the Out of Spec Reviews channel recently tested how much it would cost to charge a Hummer EV Edition 1 from 0-100% at an Electrify America station without any incentives or memberships. The results were quite shocking, as the monster all-electric pickup truck’s charging session ended up costing $96.89 before taxes and fees. It also took 152 minutes, or about two and a half hours, to charge the hulking EV from zero to full.
It should be noted that the YouTube host’s demonstration would probably not be true for many drivers of the Hummer EV. For one, Conner charged the vehicle from 0-100%, which resulted in an extended charging time. Typical EV drivers charge their vehicles only until 80% or so, which makes sessions much shorter and more affordable. Incentives or memberships tied to Electrify America would also lower the price of charging the Hummer EV.
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Your friend is slightly ahead of the game. The H@ Hummer, with a 32 gallon tank will get 352 miles per tank at 11mpg (EPA Average)
The electric perversion gets 329 miles per full charge. That probably assumes all downhill, with the wind, during the day with the AC off and no radio.
And to make up for the loss in gasoline tax revenues, states will increase the licensing fees on all EV's.....
What they don’t say is that the tires on these EVs wear out a lot faster than they normally would due to the increased weight of those battery packs. I have 60k miles on the tires of my gas powered F-150 with plenty of good tread. That would be cut in half on an F-150 Lightning.
😂👍. 152 minutes? Using main stream media math that’s like 2 hours or more. ⛽😂
Wouldn’t want to live where electricity is that high. Here we pay 5.5 cents per KWH. Would have cost $11 to charge that Hummer up.
I’ve read two recent articles where 2 separate inventors of a water-fueled car where murdered.
What’s up with that?
Internet BS or true?
It seems doable since submarines separate the hydrogen from the oxygen and then the hydrogen is expelled overboard. Why couldn’t it be reversed where the oxygen is expelled into the atmosphere and the hydrogen used to power the vehicle?
I bet your inner-city, rush-hour, parrallel parking skills are unmatched!
You are awesome!
I’d love to use an electric ATV on my 35 acres. It’s the perfect situation for an electric vehicle. However, the electrics are absurdly expensive so I’ll go gas.
With the heater running, or, at 90 deg with the A/C running.
And I live in kentucky. I’ve said for a decade that all the electrics here should have a bumper sticker on them that says, powered by coal.
Before that battery was installed, a fleet of diesel vehicles and diesel powered machinery processed around 1,000,000 pounds of mineral material to get the critical ingredients. Then the minerals were shipped in a diesel powered cargo ship to a diesel powered locomotive to a battery plant in the Western US. Then the battery found its way to the Hummer assembly plant. Maybe by an EV drone?
My 2019 Jeep Grand Cherokee Supercharged 6.2L HEMI V8 “Trackhawk”, with a 25 gal tank, costs $131.25 to fill w/ 93oct Premium, so $97 would be a welcome change. Give your friend a *chill pill*...
Yeah. When I was a teenager in the very early ‘70s, I would never fill up my tank because I couldn’t afford it. I typically get a bucks worth and then I’d have to get a bucks worth later on. Now I just get it down to a quarter tank or less and fill it up. The idea of not filling up your tank because it’s too expensive is third world crap.
lulz.
I probably should have reminded him that there are peeps that are worse off.
But yeah, was getting a good chuckle out him raging.
I am waiting for the first accident at speed involving one of these behemoths. I believe they weigh something like 9,500 lbs.
Since the typical commercial box truck is 26,000 lbs, I don’t expect the physics to be an issue until the battery catches on fire.
“...and he was raging cause it cost him $97 bucks to fill it up.”
But he still SENT A MESSAGE with the Hummer, and that message is that ‘he cares (about the planet)’, unlike you (or me, for that matter).
I assume that's just for the vehicle, not towing or carrying a heavy load, and in ideal conditions (not needing heat or AC). True?
Odds are he will be trading it in, methinks. kekw
“And much more frequent.”
In high school I worked at a gas station and always got mad when people would put in, say, $5.00 of gas. My parents always filled up the tank when getting gas, so I also did back then (and still do). What got me mad was the guy putting in $5.00 paid the same regardless of what the price of gas, when we had to pay more if the price went up.
It wasn’t until I was in college that I figured out that they weren’t doing any better than us.
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