When General Motors first announced the GMC Hummer EV, I wasn’t too impressed. I wrote a column about how a 9,000-pound monster EV proves that we’re making all of the same mistakes again, valuing overkill over reason, and excess over quality.
Four years later, I don’t think anything I said was wrong. But I don’t think GM was wrong, either. A 9,000-pound EV is unreasonable, but when have Americans ever bought reasonable cars? If you’re going to go oversized and over-the-top, you might as well go electric while you’re at it. Because if you want excess in every regard, there’s no better solution than a massive electric truck with over 400 miles of range, an absurd horsepower figure, and every feature you could possibly imagine.
