GM begins shipping its luxury Hummer EV electric truck

More than a year after her detection, General Motors is proud to announce that it is now shipping its Hummer EV Edition 1 Pickup, a luxury electric beast of 9,000 pounds (4,082 kilograms) with A 1,000-horsepower engine that can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph (96 km / h) in three seconds. Message: You can give your share to save the planet if you are rich.

IN press release on Friday, GM announced the start of a “new era” for the company, marked delivery of its first next-generation electric vehicles. Unfortunately, he is leading this new era Hummer EV Edition 1, a $ 110,295 car with an estimated 329 miles (529 kilometers) range, “modular sky plates”, the possibility of “krabwalk” and driving diagonally, and “separation mode” for navigation boulders and water.

Fortunately, this is not GM’s latest EV. A company that works on sales only zero emissions cars and trucks by 2035, plans to roll out 30 new electric vehicles in the next four years. According to the statement, two thirds of these new cars will be available in North America.

“Both commercial and retail customers will benefit from the EV experience, from exciting acceleration to low labor costs, versatility and the ability to adapt after sales,” GM President Mark Reuss said in a statement. “GM is ideally positioned to offer EV for every customer in every segment, retail or commercial.”

Although I realize it makes business sense to create an electric vehicle for certain customer segments, debuting a luxury electric truck This way when the planet is in crisis is astonishing. We have to electrify everything, i quickly, to combat climate change. ANDAlthough the all-electric Hummer EV Edition 1 (unnecessary) an example of the change we need, its price will keep it out of reach for most, which is just the opposite of what we need. (Electrek reports that cheaper versions of the Hummer EV, starting at $ 80,000, will begin launching over the next two years).

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Don’t be fooled into thinking that GM doesn’t know how to make cars that benefit the planet and its business, though. Besides starting to ship the Hummer EV Edition 1, GM also began delivering its BrightDrop EV600 electric delivery trucks to customer FedEx, which has ordered 500 EV600. EV600 can travel 250 miles (402 kilometers) at maximum load and carries up to 2,200 pounds (997 kilograms).

FedEx Sustainability Chief Executive Officer Mitch Jackson he told CNBC that sustainability is a fundamental part of doing business and looking at the scalability of electric vehicles.

“We use a lot of vehicles in our business, and we need a lot of vehicles to make a significant difference in our operations,” Jackson said, according to the publication. “We need that scope and we need that productive capacity.”

The world also needs a lot of electric vehicles to make a significant difference in its response to the climate crisis. These vehicles must be accessible to all and designed with the majority bearing in mind the needs of society. In other words, they are very different from Hummer EV Edition 1.