The 2024 GMC Hummer EV can cost an electrical car faster than the usual 120-volt outlet present in most garages, GMC revealed final week at an illustration for the SUV variant of GM’s flagship electrical car.
Each the 2024 Hummer EV truck (SUT) and the brand new Hummer EV SUV profit from a brand new 19.2-kw onboard charger and moveable cost twine that comes customary on all however the base EV2 fashions. An obtainable accent connector permits for 240-volt vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) charging at 6 kw, which could translate to greater than 20 miles of added vary per hour for an environment friendly car like a Chevy Bolt EV.
The so-called Energy Station generator accent hasn’t but been priced however will probably be obtainable quickly. With it, any fashionable electrical car with the SAE J1772 five-pin connector ought to have the ability to get a cost from a brand new Hummer EV. That permits the massive brute of an electrical truck and SUV to not solely get well an off-road car caught within the muck, but in addition energy most electrical autos which may have run out of juice on the highway.
2024 GMC Hummer EV SUV V2V charger
Each variations of the 2024 GMC Hummer EV additionally acquire vehicle-to-load (V2L) energy technology via GMC’s Energy Station generator that may present 3 kw to energy instruments, tenting tools, house home equipment, an air compressor, or different wants with a 120-volt connection. Whether or not at 120 volts or 240 volts, it’s going to function at 25 amps, accounting for the distinction in energy.
Just a few different electrical autos provide such functionality. The Hyundai Ioniq 5, Genesis GV60, and Kia EV6 can also cost different EVs, however within the U.S. it is restricted to utilizing the 120-volt V2L connector, which offers solely about 1.3 kw of juice.
2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5 – V2L accent
The 2023 Ford F-150 Lightning has a Dwelling Integration System that might energy a whole home for a couple of days within the occasion of an influence outage, however it requires a three-part set up at a value of $3,895. The Rivian R1T pickup and R1S SUV lack bidirectional charging, for now.
Each the Hummer EV truck and SUV use a 400-volt battery pack stacked onto each other in parallel most instances, although it might swap to collection for 800-volt DC fast-charging to allow as much as 300 kw of power to circulation into the battery. It’s going to recoup 100 miles of vary in 14 minutes, in keeping with GMC. The smaller, extra environment friendly Ioniq 5 can cost from 10-80% in simply 18 minutes.
Vary hasn’t been licensed by the EPA, although GMC estimates about 300 miles for the 2024 GMC Hummer EV SUV.
2024 GMC Hummer EV SUV
The distinction between the truck and SUV is a nine-inch-shorter wheelbase on the SUV and a smaller battery pack, with 20 cell modules stacked 10-on-10 as an alternative of 24 modules stacked 12-on-12 within the truck. Primarily based on IEC requirements, the SUV has a 170-kwh battery pack, whereas the Hummer EV truck has a 205-kwh battery pack.
The onboard charger improve marks a giant change in a brief period of time because the 2022 GMC Hummer EV truck debuted final yr with an 11.5-kw onboard charger. The “old” vans can obtain a soar, so to talk, however they do not have the capability or {hardware} to cost one other electrical car.
