Normal Motors goes into the gritty particulars of reworking the auto trade's poster youngster for inefficiency into an electrical automobile. The documentary "Revolution: GMC Hummer EV" will premiere on The Historical past Channel on Sunday, March 27 at 11 a.m. ET.
Manufacturing of the brand new Hummer EV pickup (which can be adopted by the GMC Hummer EV SUV) started late final 12 months at GM's revamped Manufacturing unit Zero Detroit-Hamtramck Meeting Middle. That location together with others can be featured within the 60-minute movie.
"Our objective was to upend what an electrical automobile is able to and push the boundaries from 100 years of auto growth expertise," stated Josh Tavel, government chief engineer in a press launch. "This documentary captures the soul of a group able to unbelievable innovation and resilience. Their learnings are laying the inspiration of auto growth for many years to come back."
The primary Hummer EV pickup on the market is the Version 1, which comes with three motors making 1,000 horsepower mixed. It has a variety of 329 miles and may tow 7,500 kilos when correctly geared up. When the reservation books opened in October, it offered out in 10 minutes.
WTP Photos and Hiatus have been tapped to provide the documentary with director Sean King O'Grady.
The movie options the Hummer EV testing in Michigan's Higher Peninsula, a standard incidence when cold-weather testing. The group additionally heads to Moab, Utah for hot-weather and off-roading assessments. GM says the film will characteristic numerous beforehand unseen footage of the pickup and embrace a take a look at the inside of GM's Design constructing in Warren, Michigan.
"The story we found whereas filming was much more fascinating than something we may have hoped for," stated O'Grady in a launch. "We witnessed a daring and passionate group convey GM's first main entry into this extraordinary transformation of the auto trade. This was an unbelievable alternative to go deep behind the scenes of the event course of to find what it takes to convey a automobile to life, and to seize this second in automotive historical past because it occurred."
The documentary will even spend time at GM Manufacturing unit Zero, trying on the big modifications that have been carried out to construct the brand new automobile as a part of a $2.2 billion funding.
It additionally focuses on the corporate's growth of the Ultium electrical platform, which is able to help GM's future electrical autos just like the Silverado and Sierra pickup vehicles.
Reservations are presently open for Hummer EV3X, EV2x and EV2, which can have staggered launch dates by 2024.
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