If you have a ‘24 and get an 80amp EVSE (the charger is technically built into the car), then if you ran it to 0% (something no one does) it would take 10 hours. If you’re doing the more normal thing, keeping it between 20-80% then it’s about 6-7 hours, but if you’re driving 30-60 miles a day it will take about 2…

*Shrug* I have a Hummer EV and I love it, even better if I had been “cursed” with it instead of having to buy it.  I’m a happy “jackass”.

But a couple of things are increasing, charging speeds, usage, and demand.  An 800v car like Kia’s or GM’s Ultium in the Hummer are pulling 300+kW and if unplugged at the suggested SoC of 80%, are still pulling 120-150kW.  Charging rates are only going to continue to increase with high voltages, making each charging…

And they put them in places that make you think you’re meeting someone off craigslist to buy an iPhone. DC fast charging feels skeezy. I can’t imagine the type of person that buys a Lucid Air Sapphire for $250k enjoying the “majesty” of EV ownership having to pull past 18-wheelers getting mobile serviced in a Walmart…

They also need to be doing this because 4 chargers in the back of a Walmart parking lot every 100-150 miles along an interstate just isn’t going to cut it.

They don’t calculate interest at the beginning and add it to the principle from the get-go, it’s calculated monthly at 1/12th the APR. It’s why, if you pay more than the monthly payment, your total interest burden on the note goes down faster...and if you pay the whole note with the first payment, you don’t owe any…

Step 1: Make what’s arguably one of the worst EVs

Jesus, those body panels.  They look like rippling water.

Critical analysis is something Jalopnik isn’t doing.  If they did, they’d see they sold more Hummer EVs last month than the past 18 months combined...but sure, “worst selling vehicle”.

re: the Hummer EV

Hell, they can’t even police all the late 90s, early 2000s Escalades, Malibus, Camrys, Caravans, etc. around me with “Farm Use” tags that have never even been to a farm before.  Once saw a “Farm Use” C5 Corvette.

I mean, the original H1 Alpha was over 8k lbs. Requiring special licensing isn’t going to prevent someone that wants to reckless drive in a 9000lb truck from doing so.

Until they released the demos for sale last month, there were only 850ish Hummer EVs sold.  Now they demos are released that’s closer to 2000.  

Love the Bolt, it’s only flaw is DC charging speed.  I think that’s really what “cancelling” it then bringing it back as an Ultium based car was about.  There’s a chance it will be 200 miles in 10-15 minutes which would make it comparable to a gas stop for most people.

Ha

Yeah, but GM has built 0 customer Silverados and about 3k customer Hummer EVs, so they haven’t even made the dent in reservations that Ford has.

Just took a 1500 mile round trip vacation in the Hummer EV. Tried to keep it between 20-80% and stuck to 350kW charging and it wasn’t bad, mostly. Almost every stop from 20-80% was about 37-40 minutes, 4 stops down, split the return drive into two stints with two stops per day. The only real issue was locals with free…

...something fishy going on.  The Silverado EV has over 200k reservations, the Hummer EV had 90k, and they got wise and only allowed reservations of the Edition 1 Sierra Denali EV so there’s only a couple thousand reservations.  There’s some dissonance between “lack of demand” and over 300k reservations for EVs they…

If plugging into a “slower, but still fast” charger doesn’t inconvenience you or prolong your charge but does both of those for other people next to you if you don’t just reach the 150 plug over...

Again, a better analogy would be: