(tires slipping)
(tires screeching)
- [Dan] $110,000.
Is this a car that you should buy
and what are my favorite features about it?
- [Radio voice] I think we're stuck.
I am at a 5-star resort
in Paradise Valley, Arizona.
One of my favorite places in the world.
And I'm here in compliments of GMC
because they want me to test out the Hummer.
Take it off road.
Do the crab walk.
Do the Watts to Freedom.
But they've got a crazy agenda setup
where it's not just riding this thing
on the city streets.
But here's the Hummer,
these are the full production ones.
The last time I rode in a Hummer and tested it out,
it wasn't quite full production.
So I'm gonna show you my experience.
Give some additional thoughts about the Hummer
but also, mostly, just show you a good time.
Oh, and Zack is here too.
He's gonna test out the Hummer.
Yeah. It's official.
Wait, did they put your name Zach or Jerry?
- Zach, but they spelled it wrong.
I'm Zack.
- [Dan] Oh my.
- It's all right, we'll let it slide.
We'll let it slide.
(upbeat music continues)
- Here we are. We made it to the stadium.
One fact, in 2003, Leslie and I bought our first house
right down the street from this.
A block away.
As they were building this stadium.
And now we're here checking out the Hummer.
And also, right here on this grass,
we can pull up the footage.
We filmed a video of what's inside
an NFL pylon or a football pylon.
(wind blowing)
Feels like a dust storm is coming in right now.
Anyways, we've got the Hummer here.
This one is like the off-road version
with a bunch of different hookups.
This one has lights right here.
A really nice LED light bar.
Also, has a rack on the top
and has a tent that's on the top.
And then one really cool thing,
this Hummer does have two spare tires right here.
It kind of takes up the entire back
but it is nice if you're somebody
that is going off-road to have some spare tires.
The wind is really blowing right now.
It is coming hard.
We're gonna do the 0 to 60.
The WTF or the Watts to Freedom.
Definitely one of the strangest names
when you hear a Watts to Freedom.
But when you think of WTF then it makes sense
because it's loud.
The tires are squealing the whole way there,
which they say makes you say WTF, I guess.
I don't really say WTF that often.
But if I did, this would be a situation I would say that
Zack is gonna put some GoPros out.
Two GoPros. One looking forward, one looking back.
There's a chance that they might get runover.
There's Zack at the finish line doing his work.
Look at this guy.
That's why I pay him the big bucks.
Now, I've shown this in another video before,
but it's really cool.
You have, It's not something
where you're just like driving down the street
and you're like, hey, push the button,
it's Watts to Freedom time.
It is set up for safety reasons.
This is what? 9,000 pounds? This truck?
It's pretty heavy.
You probably don't want to just be doing like
a launch mode all the time.
Here we go.
So we gotta push some buttons, right? To get in it?
- To get in the mode.
We'll double press this traction button.
My seat starts to vibrate a little bit.
And I actually have to, again, acknowledge here
that I do want to enter the mode.
So I've clicked that to enter.
So my left foot's all the way down.
My right foot starts to ramp in.
You can hear the drive units crank up a little bit here.
My seat is vibrating a lot right now, constantly.
And I see this little blinking orange telltale over here.
When I see that, that means I'm ready to go.
- Okay. We're ready to roll.
- Three, two, one. - Let's do it.
- Whoa. There you go. (laughs)
Okay. That's good.
(tires screeching)
Right off the line,
like the initial split second
when you first start a lot of electric cars like Tesla's,
you get thrown back in your seat really hard.
I didn't feel that initially,
but what was interesting, it was after that.
It was after we got moving just a little bit,
then it started rolling faster
and faster and faster and you could really feel it.
So anyway, that is really fun.
- [Presentor] Okay. Three, Two, One.
- [Zack] Oh my gosh.
That is nuts.
That is crazy.
(tires screeching)
- [Dan] Gosh.
Oh man. Some people are gonna get in trouble
for messing around with that in neighborhoods.
It's just too fun.
Good morning.
All of the Hummers are out.
Today, we are heading out to the trailhead
and we're gonna go riding in these things.
Zack and I are driving partners.
Everybody has a partner.
We're gonna take the only one
that has somewhat of a color on it,
which all of them are white
but this one has red right here on the little tow hitch
and then it has red right here.
So, yeah, a little fancy.
But I think that'll be a nice edition.
This does not happen in Arizona very often.
First of all, it's raining.
Second of all, why are there three windshield wipers?
Oh my gosh.
- Zack, are you gonna have three on your Hummer?
- No, I just do it. Just do.
I'm not cool enough.
- It doesn't rain in Arizona. I went to school here.
We lived here for many, many years
and it is kind of cool
because this is officially a convertible.
This entire top will come off.
I'm not sure we're gonna be able to do it today
but I feel like you can hear the rain a little bit stronger
'cause this is not actually glass.
It's like a soft plastic.
Makes sense if you gotta take it off,
it's pretty heavy.
We're the first ones to leave.
'Cause usually we're the slowest.
'Cause we always try to film things
and so we're gonna take off.
Oh, here we go. He'll a.
- Howdy. - [Dan] Hi.
- If I could just get you guys names real quick?
- [Dan] Just comes right in there, doesn't it?
We got a little water coming out.
Geez Louise.
That's not good.
Why'd you sat there.
- All right, thank you guys. - [Zack] Thanks a lot.
- [Dan] Thank you.
- [Zack] Did you catch all that water coming in?
- [Dan] Yeah, that was crazy.
- [Zack] There was so much water.
- [Dan] Okay. Let's figure out here, auto, okay.
Oh my. - [Zack] It's loud.
- [Dan] It's really loud.
(upbeat music)
We made it out here to the desert
and good news the rain is gone.
It was kind of what I was hoping for.
We're about to go on a 45 minute ride up a trail
to test the off-road capability of these Hummer EVs.
So, hopefully get into some hairy stuff.
(upbeat electric music)
- [Dan] It's kind of nuts up here.
How was that? - That was sick.
- [Dan] A little sketchy?
- Straight down it was awesome.
(upbeat electric music continues)
- [Dan] Okay, it's hailing now.
How is this weather.
- They're bouncing around me, dude.
- Oh, my gosh.
This roof is super loud in general when it rains
but now you have hail coming on here.
This is not typical Arizona weather and I love it.
- [Radio voice] I think we're stuck.
- [Dan] Zack? - Yes?
- [Dan] You got a little mud on your arm.
Like right there. - Yes.
- [Dan] I'm sure you're used to it after changing
the baby's diaper all the time.
- (laughs) Yuck.
- [Dan] I'm sorry to tell you.
This is your GoPro. - Oh no.
- [Dan] It didn't quite survive the glass.
It's a little shattered.
There's only one minute left. Yeah.
- Oh,
- Oh. We ran it over with the back tire.
Okay. Well we got the footage.
- [Zack] Yeah. - [Dan] The GoPro,
The screen looks okay, right. The front screen?
- Yeah, front screen's fine.
We can use the battery though.
We can pop that into one of our other GoPros that stack.
(upbeat electric music)
- Okay. I finally get to drive and we're to our first,
we're to our first,
- [Radio voice] Today we're gonna climb this obstacle here.
This is a perfect terrain load obstacle.
It'll be pretty easy to drive at low setting.
- All right. We are going to, I get a drive a,
- [Radio voice] Space out on the climb.
You would want plenty of room to
- Okay.
- [Radio voice] approach and clear the obstacle
before starting to move.
- I'm gonna go with my first obstacle right now.
Zack's gonna film it. - I'm here.
- All right. We'll get a shot.
I'll try not to crash it.
- [Zack] All right. Dan is coming up right here.
This is about a 3-foot ledge.
Let's see how Dan does.
(tires slipping)
- [Dan] I'm trying to figure out this entire time.
How can I get that window down right there?
I mean, look at this. I can look right in.
We have that window right here and I finally figured it out.
There's a little button.
I keep pushing this one right here,
but it's this one,
watch this. There we go. - [Zack] That's sick.
- It's okay. We're going a little faster, 36.
They told us we're not gonna go faster than 25.
I'm sorry I broke the rules.
It was in a safe place.
But that is one of my favorite things about this.
You have the back that kind of skids out on purpose.
It makes drifting and driving really fast on gravel roads.
One of the best things about driving in this thing,
like, I'm stepping on it right now.
Oh my gosh.
There is an element of fun with this
that you don't get in a lot of other vehicles.
I'm not gonna bring my Tesla Model X out here
to this dirt road to go rallying it.
But this Hummer is actually made for this type of situation.
All right, we are done with our ride, which is great.
We both went up the mountain, back down the mountain,
and now, we're back down here in cactus land.
Oh my gosh. I almost ran over that cactus.
I did not even notice that.
So this is the 112th one ever made.
It's the first edition or edition one as what they call it.
And this has the off-road package which is intense.
You have every feature
that you could possibly need to go off-road.
And it's all for the price of $110,000.
Now, I would love to see somebody get a Ford Raptor.
Come out here to the desert
and test it next to this truck
because my first impressions would be
this would win in pretty much every single category.
It is designed, it is manufactured for off-roading.
But in reality, who needs all of those options?
Like, do you need a super truck
to be able to go and do all these crazy off-road things?
Most people don't.
It's a really cool thing to have
but I know where GM was going with this.
Before Tesla came out with the Roadster,
all of the electric cars were super boring
and Tesla came out and said, you know what?
We're gonna make an electric car that is sexy.
And it doesn't matter if it's electric or gas.
People are gonna look at it and say, I want to drive that.
And I think GMC had a similar approach
when it came to making the truck.
We have a lot of gas powered truck fans
that love off-roading in their gas truck
that will never switch over to an electric, anything.
Let's go make the biggest and baddest
electric super truck ever.
And they did it.
It is an amphibious vehicle where you can do everything.
At the same time, it's incredibly comfortable
and you have all the luxuries
of the Bose entertainment system.
The super cruise on the highway
where it's like autopilot for you.
So do I think a lot of people
are going to buy this specific model
that has all of the options?
Probably, not.
I think there higher selling models
are going to be the lower cost ones
that don't have all the off-road things.
But GMC achieved to the goal to convince all
of the gas powered truck loving people
that electric trucks can be cool.
They can be functional and they can kick butt.
That's about as dangerous of language as I say.
My favorite thing in driving it off-road today
was to see how the drivetrain can turn.
Not just in the front of the truck but in the back.
I thought crab mode was just a gimmick.
We saw it in action today.
The Hummer in front of us got stuck.
They got a little too close to the hill.
And when they turned, the back end turned
and it went off the edge and it got stuck in the dirt.
So much so that the dirt was all the way
up to this right here.
They reconfigurated the steering
and they turned on crab mode
and they slowly and easily
crawled right out of that dangerous spot.
So yes, crab mode can be an effective thing
when you're off-roading.
So, I'm a believer in the crab mode.
The battery is massive
and you can charge it incredibly fast.
To give you some perspective.
My Tesla Model X has a 100KWH pack inside of it.
I can get around 300 miles range.
This battery packet inside of the Hummer
is a 200KWH battery pack.
It is double what my Model X is.
The range is not double though
because this truck is, how heavy Zack?
- 9,226 pounds.
- So, the range on this is around 330 to 340 miles range.
But they enabled something really clever with the charging.
It actually takes all of the energy
and splits it up among the top battery pack
and the lower battery pack.
Within 10 minutes, you can get 100 miles of range
inside of the Hummer.
So when you pull up to a gas station,
a convenience store, you have enough time to go inside,
go to the bathroom, grab some treats and come out
and your car gets maybe one of the highest amount of charges
out of all of the electric cars that are out there.
So overall, I would say,
I give this truck a rating of two thumbs up.
Imagine there's two thumbs right here.
I think there's going to be a lot of people that buy this,
or buy the models that don't have as many options
that cost less money.
That are going to thoroughly enjoy driving this,
whether you're on-road or off-road.
And so, yeah. Thank you to GMC for bringing me out here.
And look I got a cactus on my foot.
It's a big cactus. Oh my gosh. Get off.
Why do I have cactuses all over?
- You're the cactus expert.
You went to college for cactus studies.
- Oh, man.
I did go to Arizona State and in order to graduate,
they made me take this natural history of Arizona class
where I spent 30 or 40 hours out here
looking at Saguaro cactuses
to figure out which side of the Saguaro
the birds drilled holes in.
There's a scientific reason behind it. Yeah.
So now, I told that story to Zack
and now I've been the cactus expert.
And they seem to find me all over the place.
So anyway, Zack's thoughts on the trip?
Did you enjoy it?
- I really liked it. I'm very, very impressed.
I mean, I have my own Military Humvee
that I've turned electric
and so I have a special attachment to the Hummer brand.
It was super fun.
- [Dan] And Zack has a flight in like one hour.
So we should probably leave the mountains
and get outta here. - Let's go.
- [Dan] Are these mosquitoes?
There's all these bugs on the car.
No, I don't think those are mosquitoes.
Okay, good.
I do not have mosquito spray.
I'm gonna be honest.
I'm gonna be happy someday when I can see
a Hummer that is not white.
'Cause that's all I've seen.
Ah, cactus on my leg.
Don't kneel down in the desert right next to a cactus.
I'm so smart.
- I'm Zack.