Here's the Good & Bad: What It's REALLY Like to Live with a GMC Hummer EV for 6 Months!
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Roman: I've enjoyed every minute of ownership! TFL viewers: Haha roll the tape
I bet he really enjoyed when it bricked on him at that stop light.
Great car really was a better investment then my kids college
Lost me at “it’s a bargain at $125,000!!”
And that's IF you get it at $125k 🤣🤣🤣
I would have said the same thing if I hadn’t seen one today doing things I would expect to see a C8 Corvette do. I was rolling about 25 mph slowing for a red light and one pulled up right beside me. Then the driver stomped on the throttle just long enough to get in front of me and change lanes in less space than a 4 lane intersection. It looked like it was defying the laws of physics.
I would have said the same thing if I hadn’t seen one today doing things I would expect to see a C8 Corvette do. I was rolling about 25 mph slowing for a red light and one pulled up right beside me. Then the driver stomped on the throttle just long enough to get in front of me and change lanes in less space than a 4 lane intersection. It looked like it was defying the laws of physics.
Just another out of touch KZheadr.
Yeah it makes me wonder if they weren’t being held hostage
This felt like it was a paid advertisement by GM
I like the part where this is basically a marketing video paid for by GM.
This summary “praising” the Hummer is laughable, and I legitimately can’t tell if Roman is being serious or tongue in cheek.
I take him cat his word, and I think he’s full of himself and crap.
Yea the tongue bath they're giving this monstrosity given the context of it breaking down twice on them among other issues is just ridiculous. I unsubscribed after watching this.
Roman promotes t-tops on the hummer but a couple videos prior... he said they are terrible and a pain🤔
As soon as I hit the lotto 3 times in a row I'm going to get one of these
Roman just said in a video 2 days ago that he hated T tops, and now he says he likes these removable roof panels.
He also said at that time there was nowhere to put the t-tops. Not defending him, but this one has a place for them.
I like them in the 1982 Trans Am with KITT modifications 🙂
Strangely, Roman says he hates a sunroof in trucks AND he doesn’t want T-Tops to return as a feature on vehicles but he loves both of those features on this vehicle. Maybe it’s the “BADASS” feature that he mentions in nearly all vehicles he becomes enamored with. I think he just likes the shiny and new things and just wants to be cool. Be consistent with your reviews and don’t get sucked in with the shiny new toys. There have been sooo many problems with this truck in the short time you’ve owned it. It really is the new and “improved” version of the same unreliable Hummer. It is what it is, just what was expected. Flashy and crappy. These will be forgotten into perpetuity, particularly with the poor quality, reliability and wildly expensive price.
Also when he says how he loves it yet it left him stranded twice 💀
@@awesomeness369 maybe it's just one of those toxic relationships, like dating a stripper lol. More infatuation than love.
@@trailrunnah8886 be honest, what man calls himself a man that dates a stripper 🤣🤣🤣
Roman is undergoing the most severe mid-life crisis I’ve ever seen; I hope he makes it out without doing anything too stupid to avoid facing the crushing reality of aging.
@@trailrunnah8886 He basically says it at the end of the video. "It left me stranded but when it's good it's GOOD!" Tell me you haven't heard some dude say that about the toxic relationship he was in. The Hummer EV is a fantastic truck to get attention and make you feel cool for driving it, but as an EV and an Offroader it seems to underperform. With 37s they are still dragging belly with it and it's preformance as an EV gives it similar gas milage to my Jeep.
It's a lemon. You have to say its the best electric truck because you can't say you got a lemon for over $100,000 This truck would be a cool diesel!
125G and Roman says that's a bargain!! Somebody has more cash than the average truck buyer! That is a RIP OFF 125G
I think this all the time when I hear things like: "It's $90k. That's a bit pricey, but look what you get!" Then, I'm underwhelmed by what I'd get. Overall vehicles have gotten crazy expensive... this is one of the best examples of that in my book. It's even more pricey and less useful as a daily use vehicle.
Only 125,000! wow what a deal. You can never go wrong spending 125k on a GM product.
Been driving it for 12 months, since March of 2022 and I love it! As a Realtor, I show ranch property a lot, so the off-road capabilities come in handy. I can leave it running all day if I want to and the truck's cabin temperature is warm in the winter and cool in the hot Texas summers. It is easy to maneuver because of it's rear-wheel steering and allows me to meet new people all the time. Most don't even know the truck has been released yet. To me, this is the best truck I have ever owned. After the Raptor and TRX, the HummerEV is leaving both in the dust.
Amazing how the long term Titan performed flawlessly and you hated it. But you love this monstrosity that has left you stranded and doesn't work when you need it too. Hmm?
hmm indeed
1.5 kw/m LoL 🤣 Great way to save the planet.
The hummer EV is a low volume halo car meant to show off what EVs can do. It was not created to save the environment directly.
@@beanapprentice1687 yeah Halo is a good game. 👍🏻
@@crazybillsgarage very funny
I hate Roman’s opening statement about this being the best EV you can buy. From day one in videos and on podcasts they talk about all of its problems and how impractical it is. A $120k EV is not practical. A vehicle without reliable systems is not practical. A truck with that sized bed is not practical. And not practical cannot be the best. What was so wrong with the Lightning? Sorry to be on the negative side on this one guys. I’m going over to watch the Raptor R Ike video to boost my tfl spirits!
That's because most people fall in love with their problems because they have to invest money into it which cause them to build a relationship more with it it's called psychology
@@Kimbrough87 it's called suckin up to gm. idk why they bought it...
So do you guys get paid by GM to tell people that over 100k for an EV is a bargain and then compare it to luxury EV brands to make that number seem better?
It may be capable of charging at 350kw, but how often have you achieved that rate?
Right they need to start posting average sustained charging speed 0-100 and 20-80 equivalent to highway and city ratings for mpg
Hmm... I see this review, and it makes me appreciate my Jeep Wrangler 4xe. Also has removable tops, off road capability, $7500 tax credit, electric use for short trips, convenience of gas for road trips and cost less than HALF the cost of the Hummer.
"With great power comes great responsibility." Not "big" and your own tests with the GMC HEV have shown it to fail repeatedly.
"feel like you're not polluting" LOL, "feel" is accurate!
The HummerEV is obnoxiously big but I still love it; all that power, speed, and tech. So few of these have been produced that you’ll definitely get all your money back when you sell it unlike most new cars and trucks in the market now.
I like that there are 50 something year old guys like me making car videos on KZhead, so appreciate what you guys do. The Hummer EV is a nice vehicle, but it is only for a certain small subset of people. Off roading? Sure. Cruising down the highway or rocketing up Independence Pass, I will take my Taycan any day of the week over the Hummer. I almost burst out laughing when the conversation covered that the Hummer EV is more exotic than a Lamborghini or a Ferrari. That is comedy gold!! Hell, my Taycan is a better looking vehicle and turns more heads than the Hummer EV. If you guys ever do an event, let me know I am down to drive up from Denver and participate. Keep up the good work fellas!!!
The Taycan is cool, but I assure you the crowd will be around the hummer. Taycans are as common as Honda accords these days.
How to sell a vehicle after almost 6 month 101
GM must be paying you
This things GVW is insane and will cause it to be restricted on some local roads due to small structures and weight limits. Totally obnoxious IMO
I thought you had to own it a year or GM eliminated the battery warranty?
120,000 dollars is a bargain? I don’t know what world you guys are living in. Another toy for rich people.
For the hummer, yes😳………getting it early was a bargain because they’ve been going for 180k all the way up to 260k……I would sell why people still want them and make a 100k! 🤷🏽♂️
I notice the absence of Nathan. I wonder what he’d say about the Hummer. :)
No man dislikes hummers
@@mattbrew11 he's not a fan
@@Dankcatvacs double entendre, my man
Will it even fit through the local drive through?
Excuse me, 1970's MGB's and Midgets have three windshield wipers.
I know you only shown bricking twice. Has it bricked more? Has GM fixed the bricking issue?
If it can reset it's not bricked...
You mentioned range and charging speed, but even more important is efficiency... that's your average cost to drive and most people will be level 2 charging at home...even with a big battery you might not be able to fill it up enough overnight and it'll be costing you more money. That's why I would say it's not practical.
A massive vehicle with a massive battery, hardly reduces the environmental impact that EV’s are suppose to bring to the planet. Superfluous excess is superfluous excess, fossil fuels or giant 1.5 ton batteries.
3:10 I still would love to see how this accelerates out of WTF mode 😏 see how good that 3.0 sec fly by while you're adjusting your hight 🤣🤣
Didn’t Tommy say it just passed the 6month requirement for warranty transfer and that’s what TFL “was waiting for” ? Lol Sounds like bailing asap to me 🤨
I’m glad electric trucks are being tested like this! I just hope companies are watch and improve! I really would like for electric trucks to be the go to vehicle for truck buyers. No matter how much they are, what class they are, and how big they are!
I personally think it’s cool that GM/Hummer showed the world all the fun and cool things you can do for an electric truck. What I don’t like is the horrible reliability you’ve had so far. I know you acknowledged some of the issues but I can tell you I’ve never been left stranded by my cars and you’ve been stranded twice… just my opinion but I’d wait until a lot of the kinks are worked out.
I received an email from GM about my suv edition1. Any body testing them yet?
I Got a chance to drive a 3x for 20min at a Gm Plant ev test day. Wow, driving the hummer ev was wonderful. The power was insane and how smooth it is blew my mind. I now get why people love their ev's. From a driving experience it's better than gas power. I cant stop thinking about it.
That crab walk feature MIGHT be usable for towing if they inverted the steering in reverse. Otherwise, completely useless.
Actually climbing up a slippery slope/rock face and you need to slide to the right or left while staying oriented vertically would be one use case, or you can shift over to a curb easier when parking a trailer. Not scenarios this truck will encounter very often though😅
I see the hummer's influence on the new chevy colorado's fender flare
You have to Read the Owner Manual to learn about it and systems it has and why...
0:22 IDK, don't get me wrong the technology in this thing is impressive (I especially like the motors advancements over the Bolt's design) That said, I'd still say the Bolt is the best on a sheer value proposition. Also the Rivian's lower price, better quality (no cheap plastics there) also make a pretty good argument. Lastly, if Lucid would just fix their quality issues, the touring Air is also a really good argument for this statement.
Roman, no you’re wrong. From a UK perspective it’s too big, it’s too heavy, anything over 3500kgs has to go to a commercial truck test centre and that is expensive. To charge the thing from 10% to 100% would cost £127 at 67p pkwh and it’s useless as a pickup truck and a Skoda Enyaq would tow further (not by much ) but the Skoda costs £35k and would fit a UK parking space. FYI the charge in dollars is $154 that would buy me 18 gallons of diesel which would take a Ranger diesel 450+ miles.
They should disclosed if they getting paid by gm to do this comercial 😅
@@andreiionescu205 by gm not google!
The T-top is back!
"Long Range Fast Charging! It's the GOAT of EVs!" I await your easy breaking of the O to O cannonball record. Oh, it can't? Hmmm...
Maybe you could send it to Bjorn to test for a year in Norway.
Costs as much as our first house 18 years ago
The Hummer should be named, "pot luck" or "russian roulette". One cannot be sure it will operate properly. 🔴
Hi again love your videos guys! just to try to shake a bit the market and consumers' good life why dont you promote and push what NIO does with its customers? batteries' swap stations!
Any civilian, non-commercial, vehicle over 100,00 can never be referred to as a "bargain." The first car I ever owned, a '69 MGB, had 3 windshield wipers. I'm willing to bet 95% of your audience would never consider buy this, just based on price. I love your vids, get a lot of info out of them, but find your lack of being able to listen to yourselves to hear what you are saying dismaying.
What they did not tell you is the 110 volt charge when the battery pack is at 20 percent is 24 hours..??.....
These Hummer EVs are truly incredible. The performance and the way it holds the road is insane. I was fortunate enough to see someone actually step on it and change lanes right in front of me and it looked like it was defying the laws of physics. Something that big, that weighs that much, should not be able to move like it does.
I’m pretty sure standard Camaros have more body roll than one of these
At 9k lbs, sounds like a horrific accident waiting to happen.
Won’t be sorry to see this one go
212kWh battery and 1.5 mi/kWh! Wow! That’s expensive motoring. In the UK some trunk road 350kW chargers are commanding 76p/kWh. That’s £112 for a 10-80% charge (0.7 x 212 = 148.4kWh) gives a calculated 222miles- more like 200 with motorway speeds and its 0.57Cd brick-like drag co-efficient. But I guess if you can cough up £320K for this vehicle in the UK fuelling cost isn’t a concern. Fill ya boots😂
Good video but a dreadful means of transport. Too heavy, too tall, too noisy inside, and dreadfully inefficient. A statement piece, but what are you saying?
Roman does not understand that how fast you add KWH doesn't matter. What matters is how fast you add MILES.
EXACTLY!! One of the mainstream car magazines proclaimed the Hummer the "fastest charging EV available". I showed him the math that an Ionic 5 adds MILES dramatically faster than the Hummer. I couldn't get him to understand and gave up.
I like the $2000 tail lights. Someone needed to back it into a wall to examine repair ability.
that's in Tommy's job description... sorry Tommy 😝
So awesome. I’d definitely drive one. The issues you encountered should be able to be fixed with software updates. The only one I’d be concerned about is the air compressor overheating.
You guys got mentioned on Salty Cracker because this hummer🤣
Can you do a cross country trip to show what it’s like to travel with it?
Theres many videos that vehicle can give you 349 miles in the highway at 70mph and everytime you recharge you only spend like $60 You can go from California to NY you only will spend $750 + tolls but will take you 12hrs more
From the outside looking in, the Hummer EV is just a novelty for the people who hate money
There is something wrong when vehicles cost $125K. Who is supposed to buy one of these? We need $30K electric vehicles instead.
The peasants have to walk or ride an e-bike.
@@fastfreeks how many do you have?
Ordered mine will be in 2024
I’ll take a real hummer (H1 Alpha) over this any day. Or a F-150 e lightning. Great content though
The truck is to pricey and I don't want remove able roof that just add more area to have water leaks I'll go with the Lighting seeing that truck is built for the everyday person.
Well if it does leak that's a bad thing, but convertibles are pretty normal things. So are sunroofs.
The truck is not a bargain. The Lightning Pro 2022 was a bargain.
It’s a fun truck
Can’t wait to bar find one of these in 30 years on Forza
$125,000 to go grocery shopping, sporting venues etc. Some people have more dollars than sense.
Absolute beast, love it. Also love GM's courage .
Just realized🤔🤔…..nobody talks about the hummer ht3
And for that price, you can get whatever color you want; as long as it's white.
Hmm.i don't know about Batman,he only uses military based vehicles and not a phone charger.
Polluting really? The power company that produces electricity to recharge that vehicle makes a lot more pollution than modern day gas powered vehicles unless it's nuclear
"Its the best off-roader you can buy if you never seriously intend on going off-road." That's pretty much his whole review-- this sucks, but its great anyway, this other thing sucks, but its great anyway. And yeah, I still want one. Because....just look at it. I mean, Tesla model y,....or this?
How much does it cost to charge this on level two charger at your home / office. Please answer this. I have a Silverado Ev rst coming. Thanks. I can’t wait.
A full day for a full charge, or even longer.
Find the cost per kWh of electricity where you live, then multiply that by the hummer’s battery capacity of 212 kWh.
This might just be the GOAT of all EV trucks. Let's see how they hold up over time...
Can't wait to buy one
Trade for Dark Horse Mustang!!!
Whenever I see footage of the Hummer EV, it is either off or moving very slowly around a parking lot or dirt road.
Batman would definitely 6:14 drive a Black TRX
I would say Im exactly the target market. Would I buy it? Nope. Should have been a Hybrid for so many reasons.
They should put a combustion engine in there a diesel would be nice
This review states 1- Not great for off-road, 2- tow range is lame at 100 miles, 3- broke down a few times, 4- not much bed capacity, especially with that spare tire in there, 5- 1.5 kwh per mile- seriously? 6- $125k and it's worth it- are you kidding? Yet all this and it gets a gleaming review? I guess the weighting is the cool factor is a 1,000 times more important than the reliability or any key function of a 4wd truck like hauling, towing or off-road. Are you paid off by GM here for this review? Your credibility just took a big hit in my opinion guys.
The bed is so small it looks like a rumble seat ... That is NOT a Truck! stop calling it a truck! that is an SUV for soccer moms. not for work or anything an actual truck is useful for.
That weight might require a commercial driver's license. I feel bad for the roads
Unreliable breaks all the time I saw the views I see your videos Don't tell me it doesn't break
Still don’t care what anyone says, this truck definitely deserves to stay on the channel. They kept the Bronco and TRX way past the one year mark of long term testing. More testing and more awesome video is needed. The Hummer EV is absolutely a awesome and special truck. TFL, KEEP THE HUMMER, PLEASE.
Need to make solar roof panels and put all season tires on for extra range. Add a canopy on the back for extra streamlining and make an in cab 12 volt battery switch.
Sounds like it's a great truck to borrow, but not a good truck to own
It's a great vehicle on paper but real world it seems it's only the best EV for people who crave attention. Calling it the best off road vehicle for people who don't want to seriously go off road is pretty ridiculous to me. But there are people driving new Wranglers on 40s with the entire off road accessories catalog on them that have invested as much money and never seriously go off road too. At least the Hummer EV is more unique.
"it has the biggest battery" well sure but it also has the most weight.
Imagine buying a big electric scooter for 125k cause it tow a small boat
Why did the Hummer leave you stranded? Break down on road?
Everytime I see this hummer, I become sad. 200 kWh and not really any range benefits? That’s just wasteful!
The sarcasm dispersed through this video is going to piss people off who don't pick up on it. This vehicle is a cool concept but the price to reliability variable is awful. Price should reflect quality (reliability) but I guess it rarely does. So these two factors have left me with little interest in the Hummer. Thanks guys for buying. I know that's a big investment and has tied a lot of your money up in one place.
If you love something, set if free….
Had mine for a year now. 14300 miles of fun! I use it for work and keep it formed on most of the day. I show properties a lot and so have to get in and out of my truck a lot or wait for clients at properties. Sitting there in my TRX, I could see the gas mileage drop. With the HummerEV, I leave it on and it's nice and cold in the hot Texas summer. Best trick I ever owned and I'm saving about $1200/ month in gas cost