Take a $1 billion grant from the Pentagon and add an keen automaker’s creativity and the affect of Arnold Schwarzenegger. The result’s the Hummer, a 33-year-old behemoth whose tumultuous tenure is as confounding as any car in current automotive historical past.
Barely greater than 40 years in the past, AM Common, a heavy car producer in Indiana, secured the funding and constructed the Excessive Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Car (Humvee). It was the go-to cargo and troop transport car in Center Jap army operations and 72,000 have been made in eight years.
Schwarzenegger was enamored with the Humvee used on the set of his 1990 film Kindergarten Cop. He persuaded its maker to introduce a shopper model, which it did in 1992 and renamed it Hummer.
The EV choices joined the Hummer lineup as a pickup in October 2020 and as a sport utility car in April 2021. With its new standing, all the things the unique Hummer and the single-digit gasoline mileage and different extremes it represented are forgiven.
A precursor to Tesla Cybertruck and its polarizing appears to be like, the Hummer is about as far faraway from the automotive norm as possible and a wondrous contradiction.
By title and possession modifications, bankruptcies, manufacturing hiatuses and auto trade upheaval, the 2025 GMC Hummer EV Pickup is right here in its refreshingly daring methods.
It’s as overbearing as ever, a 9,000-pound, get-out-my-way beast with 22-inch wheels and its omnipresent menacing look.
Payload capability is 1,300 kilos and the towing restrict 7,500 kilos. The pickup has an 11.3-cubic-foot entrance trunk commonplace on each fashions. It additionally shops the 4 detachable roof panels when wanted. Commonplace are also entrance and rear pedestrian alerts, computerized braking and blind-spot warnings.
The Hummer is troublesome to enter and exit. It doesn’t slot in standard-sized parking areas. Its title couldn’t be emblazoned throughout the previously enticing grille any extra boldly.
The Hummer has a commanding highway presence and it’s greater than 18 toes lengthy. It has three windshield wipers. Masculinity is additional showcased by way of the pickup’s two trim ranges, the 2X and 3X. The 2X, not surprisingly, has two electrical motors — one on every entrance and rear axle. It has a mixed 570 horsepower. The 3X has three electrical motors — one on the entrance axle, two on the rear — combining for 1,000 horsepower.
The end result: the Hummer’s attraction can persuade a non-pickup-truck shopper to hitch the shopping for majority. It has a 0-to-60 acceleration in 3.3 seconds, an electrical vary of 381 miles and a mixed 53 MPGe score. House charging by way of a 240V system takes 10.5 hours.
Wi-fi Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are simple to attach and performance effectively, however the Hummer doesn’t have an onboard navigation system. The 14-speaker Bose sound system is typically not the perfect because the Hummer has substantial wind rush points.
A hefty provide of USB shops, 12-volt shops and wi-fi charger are included. The rear row has a 120-volt outlet and there’s additionally Google Assistant.
With its excessive perch seating and sq. home windows, the Hummer has superior visibility, additional assisted by a surround-view digicam system with 9 cameras with 19 obtainable views.
There are shortcomings: The four-door, five-passenger crew cab has a condensed, five-foot mattress. It’s smaller than the mattress of its Honda Ridgeline lookalike. The Hummer additionally has a tiny, hard-to-reach rear-view mirror. It’s significantly odd contemplating the car’s girth. Likewise, the aspect mirrors don’t correspond to the car’s further giant, rugged persona.
The 2025 GMC Hummer EV pickup, as reviewed, value slightly below $120,000. The model has by no means been a discount, however the 2025 version is a price buy for customers who know what they need and purchase it as a result of they will.
