- The Rivian is better. The Cyber truck is better.
Guess what?
Every electric truck that comes
out to the market is a good thing
for the entire electric market.
(intense techno music)
- Watts To Freedom. Three, two, one.
(tires screeching)
- Oh, there we go.
Welcome back to What's Inside Family.
We're at the Milford Proving Grounds in Detroit, Michigan.
It is this super top secret place.
I was not allowed to bring my camera gear,
my audio. They took my phone
and they put red tape on my brand new iPhone 13 Pro.
It's like, this is intense.
We are going to be one of the first 25 people
in the entire world, that is not an actual Hummer employee
to drive this thing.
I don't want to get anybody in trouble,
but GM I'm coming. I'm going to hide in here.
I'm going to get in there at some point.
- [Cameraman] Hey! (laughing) Okay.
It's just not today, so.
- If you are in a vehicle
for up to 20 minutes with somebody,
they want you wearing the N95.
That's why we are being extra safe.
Okay. So this is the moment.
This is going to be fun.
I don't know what I'm in for here,
but it's going to be great.
So, all right, first things first.
- This was spot where if you want
to do a hard straight line acceleration.
- You can just gun it, basically.
- Yeah, you can just stand on it.
(car accelerating)
- It's seriously throws you in the back of your seat.
It makes noise inside what sounds like a truck.
And it doesn't feel right in a way
that you're in this super heavy off-road truck vehicle
going that quick.
That's fun.
That rides really nice.
So right now we are on a very steep hill.
We have GoPro back here.
So hopefully you can see this
but all I see is the giant hood
and the tops of some trees and some power lines.
The nice thing about having is it 18 cameras in here?
- 18 cameras.
Two of them are underneath it,
is I can look and use the camera
and see up ahead, it's just a dirt road.
I'm good.
I can go ahead and just drive right over this.
And right here, like it seriously looks like
an edge of a cliff, but on the camera, I know I'm safe.
Cause I can see what's going on.
So, the back wheel can turn up to 10 degrees.
Right now we are in a really tight spot on a dirt road.
It is such a tight turning radius,
tighter than my cars that I have.
So, okay. That's actually really impressive.
And now we've got a slalom course here for me
to drive through to show while you're driving,
like how easy it can be, how maneuverable it can be.
Okay, this is the first time I've tested this.
You gotta be kidding me, that is crazy.
- And if you're worried about the cones,
you can actually see them on the cameras here.
- (laughing) The turning radius is insane.
I just ran over something.
This is the moment that I've been waiting for.
You saw the memes.
- Push and hold.
- Oh, push and hold, okay.
You push and hold it.
It shows a little animation on the screen,
warning you you're going into Crab Mode.
Get ready for this.
And, pulls up the cameras underneath.
Well, you can put up any camera.
And here we go. We are now in Crab Mode.
What, what? Oh, the back, it's so trippy.
It's so trippy to be going straight,
you turn and the back end moves.
(laughing) Okay, that is something.
I can turn,
I'm going to turn as sharp as I can, yeah.
- Go for it.
- There we go. Oh, full Crab Mode right there.
I'm like getting sideways on the road a little bit.
So up to 20 miles an hour, I feel like,
you're going pretty quick.
I'm still doing Crab Mode.
But then once you go above the 20 it starts to phase out
and at 40 it's completely out.
We're out of Crab Mode.
I wish you guys could feel this
and see this on camera and
it's really cool.
Okay, we're going right where it says, "Do Not Enter."
We keep driving where it says, "Do Not Enter."
This is an intense part.
I see a big pile of rocks with cones on them. Here we go.
Riding over giant boulders.
- Just tweak to the right a little bit.
- Okay just a little bit, okay.
- Okay. Just kind of ease on the gas
- Oh my gosh.
Those are some big boulders. That was intense.
I can't believe we just went over that.
All right. We're testing the on-road capabilities of this,
which mode are we in right now for driving?
- Just normal mode.
- This is normal mode 55 or 60
and speed limit is 75 around this
corner. So, uh
(car accelerating) Okay.
She's alive.
- (laughing) Oh my god.
- You actually hear it.
You can hear his sounds like a traditional gas motor.
And so this is a bumpy road, oh
there's a big bump coming up.
There we go.
There are some bumps.
We're getting an idea of what the suspension is like.
(upbeat techno song)
It's so smooth. It's just like a suspension.
You feel like there's no gravel, no bumps there at all.
I'm going to be fully transparent with you here.
When I was here in Detroit a few months ago,
when I first saw this, they told me about Watts To Freedom.
And I thought it was one of the weirdest names I'd ever
heard. Like how does that mean
the fast mode?
The initials are W T F.
When you are in Watts To Freedom
mode, you're like, what just happened?
I've done it before in Teslas.
- Oh my gosh. I feel so dangerous right now.
If we both die the kids honey, the kids.
- 3, 2, 1. (car screeching)
Oh, (screaming with excitement)
but to do zero to 60 in three seconds in something that
weighs as much as it does, it does make you go a little,
what is happening right now? So Watts to Freedom,
three, two, one (car accelerating), oh there we go.
(car accelerating)
(laughing) That's pretty good.
It's like a rollercoaster. It really is.
Do not try this at home.
The first day you get your Hummer,
but that was the winner right there.
This thing is an absolute beast.
It is crazy fast and crazy intense.
A lot of you guys will know that within the last couple of
weeks, I was with Rivian driving that truck.
And a lot of people are going to ask:
"what's the comparison?
Which one do you like more? Do you like the Hummer EV?
Or do you like the Rivian R1T?"
And in some ways I don't like to compare them as much
because they are kind of a different category.
This, they call it a super truck.
They built it specifically for off-roading and you can feel
the difference when you're off-road.
I would say this is probably a better off-road vehicle than
the Rivian truck.
Being able to ride in
it is a lot different than just seeing it in person like I
did before.
I, it gives me a different perspective
that is really fun and exciting to see what the future is
with electric trucks.
This will be the second electric truck that is produced and
out there on the market, in the world,
in the history of the world, really.
Rivian first, and then the GMC Hummer second.
When the cyber truck comes out if it ever comes out someday,
I'm excited to test that out and try it.
But we're still like a year,
year and a half away from that even being out.
So this really is something that is more real.
This isn't a production model yet.
It's really close to it,
but they are producing them and they should be out at the
end of this month.
Probably have to leave this place because it is like top
secret and I've pushed it longer than I think I'm supposed
to stay here. But thank you for watching.
See you guys.
I'm sorry for saying that I didn't like your name before.
It's actually really cool. And it actually makes sense. WTF