- Yes, convertible electric SUV is here.
Built in America, 300 miles range, 830 horsepower.
There's so many cameras.
GMC is doing something really interesting with this.
Get this, are you ready for this?
Welcome back to What's Inside?
Today is a very exciting day
that for me is six months in the making.
We are going to see what's inside
the all new Electric Hummer,
but not just the Hummer, the all new Hummer Electric SUV.
The reason why I say it's been six months in the making is
because I was supposed to be here in October
for the Hummer truck reveal.
But unfortunately I had my appendix ripped out.
(medical equipment beeping)
And ever since that Hummer electric truck was released,
I've had so many questions from a lot of you guys
and people on the street.
What do you think about GMC's electric truck?
And I haven't had a really good opinion
because I have not seen it in person.
We saw our friend, Zack, he did a video on it
that showed the deep dive of everything
that's inside of that.
Well, now Hummer has an SUV which is really nice for me
because I'm not as much of a truck kind of guy.
Like, I don't really need a truck bed for things.
I have friends that have trucks and I just call them up
and they come help me.
So today we are going to see what's inside
of the Electric SUV.
And is it something that you should buy it?
We need to pull this cloth off.
We've got Zack. He is here.
Zack, can you be Vanna White
and take off the curtain for me.
- That will be my job. I got this.
- You can do it.
All right here we go, the reveal.
(twinkling music)
Oh, oh, okay.
Okay. Thank you, Zack, well done.
(exciting techno music)
So this is it. This is the first new electric car
that I'm checking out in 2021,
and I'd say it's a pretty dang good-looking one.
It is an SUV, and the question might be like,
how does it compare to the Hummer truck,
which a lot of you have seen so far.
It's a little bit shorter.
Instead of having a truck bed, you have 82 cubic feet
of storage in the back.
Because this has the crab mode
and because all four wheels can turn
when you're doing a U-turn,
it actually drives like a car and you can get around easier.
You have Hummer EV right in the headlights on the light bar.
Personally, growing up, the Hummer and the Humvee
has been one of my favorite vehicles that
I've always loved just seeing on the road.
I've always wanted to own one.
I never have pulled the trigger and done it.
Part of the reason is because the gas mileage
on those things are terrible on the old, old ones.
It's kind of this weird spectrum.
You've got cyber truck on one side of it
where it's like super futuristic modern,
kind of like strange looking in a way,
but then you also have a Rivian
that looks like an actual pickup truck.
This is a good middle ground between both.
It definitely looks tough.
It looks futuristic but it still has all the characteristics
of what a normal SUV in a normal truck would look like.
Look at this tow hook right here.
Back in the day, the Humvee, especially in the
military setting, they would connect
these to a helicopter and just carry these things
or drop them in somewhere.
A must have for any SUV,
like honestly, we use this feature so much
in our SUV at home, is doors that are automatic.
Now, the four doors around the side are not automatic
but the back is automatic.
And then also the front trunk is automatic.
This is obviously not the final production.
It will be that you just push a button,
this thing opens, but once you open it up,
there is so much space inside of here.
I really like the height of this.
Once you put the seats down
you have up to 82 cubic feet of storage
but then you also have more storage, it's underneath here.
I've never had a car that has a front trunk
that actually opens and closes by itself.
Okay. This is actually a massive front trunk.
Most easy front trunks, the fronks are so tiny.
You could fit a small person inside of there.
That sounds really dark.
It's time to see what's inside of the Hummer SUV.
Do I see myself ever riding in something like this?
Absolutely. This has a really nice feel inside of it.
You have a big touch screen in here
but it's not overwhelming.
It's not too big, it's not too small.
I think it's a really good size.
Plus, you have the heads-up display.
A lot of cars are also doing away
with the heads-up display.
Kind of blows my mind.
I don't understand why you would like to do that.
I like to be able to see how fast you're going
right in front of you.
It seems like a very common thing in a car.
So it does have two different screens.
Overall, I gotta be honest.
These seats are incredibly comfortable.
Zack and I, a few years ago drove
through the Pyrenees mountains.
Is it Pyrenees, Zack? Is that what they're called?
- [Zack] Heck if I know.
- In Southern France?
Anyway, Zack and I went on a long drive with the G wagon,
not an electric car, but it has a similar feel
where it's like more of a boxy vehicle.
I do like the way this windshield is.
It's kind of reminds me of like
when you're filming a video or you're watching a movie,
and it's like cinematic display
because of the way that it's a little shorter but longer.
(exciting orchestral music)
There's so many Easter eggs on this.
For example, this right here is the surface of the moon,
the sea of tranquility, American flag is right here.
This isn't an option that you can add or take off.
All of these will have the American flag.
And it's not just on this side, check it out.
American flag on both sides of your car.
Never seen that in a car before, but hey, built in America,
you might as well be proud of it
and show it on the outside of it. I love it.
But did you know that this is also classified
as a convertible?
So yeah, this is a convertible SUV.
So, you know, I'm going to take the top off.
This is how you do it.
There's four different segments of this.
You move those little latches right there
and then it just nice and easily comes out.
(exciting orchestral music)
You can actually store all of the panels
inside of the front trunk.
Convertible achieved.
Wait, it's not quite a convertible yet.
We need to take this out, we don't need that.
Let's take this out of here.
Look at that, we've got the beam out.
There are some screws that we took off earlier
to take this out.
I was kind of wondering what these little
spots were down here.
Well, it turns out they're really well-thought out.
Underneath here, you have a space to put this in it.
There we go. Just pops right into place,
and then you can put this down, store all of your things.
And now, you've got a pretty real world
convertible experience.
The entire thing's a convertible.
This is awesome.
Riding around just having the wind go through your hair
or sorry, Zack, over your head.
When I said earlier that it was 19 inches shorter
than the truck to be fair there is a spare tire on the back
which I do like.
I have never owned an electric vehicle
that actually has a spare tire.
If you get a flat, you have to call somebody to
come service your electric car,
but looking at the Hummer SUV,
the window isn't the biggest,
and so of course, technology, it's good to have cameras.
There's a camera right here that can look out
and see everything
and kind of give you that 360* view when you're backing up
and you can see like everything around you,
but then also right here on the spare tire,
they put a camera in here.
There's so many cameras on this car.
One of the really cool features is that
it will show you how charged your vehicle is
on the headlights.
This is a sped-up version of it right now
but this is going to be part of the car.
Also, another first of something that I have never
seen before the windshield is so wide
and it's not super tall,
and so you can't get your regular windshield wiper
that covers a lot of ground, so what do you do?
You just add another one.
So this actually has three windshield wipers on it
but that's not the only automatic wiping system
that's on here, and that sounded weird also, but...
(man yelps) (both laughing)
Just like the old Humvee that is the original
amphibious vehicle, in a lot of ways,
these are meant to be off-road.
There's not just cameras on the back of the car
but there's also cameras underneath the vehicle,
so you can see your clearance live as you're driving
going really slow over some boulders,
and you want to see if it's going to scratch
the undercarriage of it.
So they actually have a self-cleaning system where
you can actually like have a spray and clean off the camera.
The Hummer EV SUV is supposed to have around
300 miles range versus the Hummer EV truck
has 350 miles range,
but still 300 miles range is a good amount.
Our electric car that my wife drives around
every single day gets 224 miles range,
and she has to charge it every day or every other day
with taking the kids to school and everything.
So 300 miles range realistically is probably going to
in the real world, get you around like 250, 240
just with the way you drive with all the different elements.
That's just my experience with electric cars.
That's a good amount for getting around town.
The horsepower inside of the Hummer SUV
is around 830 horsepower versus the pickup truck
is going to have 1,000 horsepower.
So it does have the same amount of torque
but it does have a little bit less horsepower.
So honestly, it's gonna be hard to see the difference
between those two, to the average person that's driving
but it does have a little bit less horsepower.
How do you charge the vehicle?
Well, right here on the side.
This is where you'll charge it right there.
GMC is doing something really interesting with this.
With this port, there is an option, get this.
Are you ready for this?
There is an option to where you can take this
and have a charger that you can plug into
another electric car and charge it at six kilowatt speed,
which is pretty insane.
How nice would it have been?
If my car died on the road or we are camping or whatever,
and my car ran out and I just called a friend that had one
of these or somebody there who are camping with us
and they're like, "Hey, let me give you like 20 miles
of range, and you can go and get to the next charger
so that you can charge."
Electric car manufacturers, if you're listening, do this.
I really like this feature, I think it's super cool.
Welcome to the Ultium Battery Lab.
It sounds like something that's out of a Marvel movie.
I feel like we're going to see Tony stark walking
by sometime.
This is where they do the research
and development for all of it.
The training, the testing, it's a very rigorous process.
This isn't some company that is just
starting right now making electric cars.
They've been making the Volt since 2012.
Right now we're going to see how GM makes the battery packs.
We have the battery technology from 2012
from the first generation Volt, the second generation Volt.
And then in 2017, we've got the Bolt with a B,
not with the V, like the other two.
And then we move on to the batteries cells.
The Hummer SUV is the latest and greatest right here.
Can I touch that pouch? - [Lab Personnel] Yeah!
- This is a battery that they're going to be using
in the Hummer SUV.
Inside of these modules there will be
24 of these giant cell phone looking batteries.
Then, once everything is set and ready to go,
they send it off to their manufacturing facility
which is in America, which is no surprise.
When I say this is a research and development lab,
I mean they test stuff out.
They're testing the batteries.
They're pushing the batteries to the limits
to make sure that they are tested
to the most extreme environments possible
before they put it in your car
and you're driving down the street with it.
So this right here is this sub zero container
inside of this chamber is a battery pack that is actually
going to be inside of the Hummer truck.
They can take this thing down to 40 degrees Celsius
and all the way up to 80 degrees Celsius.
That's a pretty wide range
but they can also take the humidity down to two or 3%.
And then all the way up to like 98%, super high,
so they can simulate almost any temperature
in the world right here.
This is the shaker room. This is my hearing protection.
We're going to go inside,
and I want to explain to you what the shaker room is
and why does GM have this one?
This is the large one. They also have a mega shaker.
We're going to go to the large one here.
Come into the shaker room.
This is it. Welcome to the shaker room.
This is called the shaker.
All right, turn on the shaker.
(exciting music)
So we did a low-frequency side way,
so you can actually see the shaker moving.
The battery pack in on top of there.
It doesn't look like it's moving that much,
maybe to the naked eye,
but that's moving a lot for a battery.
You can shake the car this way or up and down,
and they're recording everything, every data point to see
if it's safe and to see if they need to shut it
down at some point or just collecting data
so they know their cars are safe on the road.
I've been driving an electric car
since I bought a Nissan Leaf back in 2016.
Since then, I've had five or six different Teslas.
So I've been driving electric for a while.
And one of the big arguments that I get from a lot
of people that love gas cars, and don't want to switch
over to EVs is, what happens when the car is done
with its useful life?
It's gonna be so wasteful to have all these battery
cells that are just like discarded
and thrown into a landfill.
GM is doing something really cool about that.
Behind me is basically like a giant power wall.
GM has taken five first-generation Volts that were
from 2012 that were done with their useful life
but there's still energy in the battery cell.
They put them inside of this giant power bank
and essentially they have a power wall
that they can run things off grid.
They've taken this thing to different places.
They took it to San Francisco once
and they ran the entire media relations tent.
Solar was generating enough power to power this up.
It's essentially 90 kilowatt hours.
So like a Tesla in 90 D basically inside of here.
Over the next few years, we're going to
start to see those cars that are just 2011, 12, 13's
that are old enough now to have a hundred thousand miles
a few hundred thousand miles
and people are just not driving anymore.
Or they got in an accident.
Very, very cool. I love that.
Overall, I'm impressed.
This is supposed to be out in like early 2023.
So the Electric Hummer truck will be out first
later this year, early next year, that'll be out.
And then about a year later
you can get your hands on the SUV.
And there's a lot of other Easter eggs
that they didn't tell me now
that they said they're going to wait for customers
to identify them as the car comes out.
Really cool. I like that.
So let me know your thoughts in the comments below.
What are your thoughts on the GMC Electric Hummer SUV?
Are you gonna put a deposit down?
Do you want to get one of these? I think it's great.
So, no, we don't have flying cars in 2021,
but we do have cars that have self-cleaning cameras
underneath the vehicle. That's a win I guess?
Might be a good video once this is out.
Let's see if we can actually lift this thing up.
Is it possible? I don't know,
but it's got the tow hooks, might as well use it.
Zack is behind the camera, saying yes.
Whoa.
This is one of the one; you should not drop things.
I don't want to drop this.
This is the only one of these vehicles, I think.
This is the battery cell that they're going to be using.
Whoa.
Can I touch that pouch?