First Manufacturing 2024 GMC HUMMER EV Version 1 SUV Raises $500,000 for Tread Calmly! at Barrett-Jackson
Sale contributes to group’s mission of leisure stewardship and schooling
2023-01-30
Scottsdale, Ariz. – Tread Calmly!, a non-profit devoted to selling out of doors recreation via stewardship and academic packages, will obtain $500,000 from the sale of the primary manufacturing unit of the 2024 GMC HUMMER EV Version 1 SUV on the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale Public sale on Jan. 28, 2023. The non-profit will obtain the complete quantity raised for the GMC HUMMER EV SUV, as Barrett-Jackson waived the charges and commissions usually related to their collector automobile auctions.
“We’re proud to assist Tread Calmly! and their mission via the monumental sale of VIN 001 of the GMC HUMMER EV Version 1 SUV at Barrett-Jackson,” stated Duncan Aldred, world vice chairman of Buick and GMC. “We’re honored to start out the yr off with this donation to an important trigger. With the continued assist of Barrett-Jackson to make this donation 100% a charitable endeavor, proceeds will assist Tread Calmly! and their mission of environmental conservation.”
Tread Calmly!’s purpose is to steadiness the wants of the individuals who take pleasure in out of doors recreation with the necessity to keep wholesome ecosystems and thriving populations of wildlife throughout the nation. Funds from the primary retail unit of the GMC HUMMER EV Version 1 SUV can be used to assist its conservation mission in addition to promote out of doors ethics and a way of excellent stewardship in nature.
“We are able to’t thank the GMC model and Barrett-Jackson sufficient for this wonderful assist,” stated Matt Caldwell, Government Director of Tread Calmly! “This funding will make quite a few path restorations initiatives and academic packages potential in areas throughout the nation. These initiatives are on the heartbeat of what we do as we work to ‘shield the journey’ for everybody.”
The GMC HUMMER EV Version 1 SUV gives distinctive on-road efficiency and off-road functionality, all powered by GM’s Ultium Platform.
- Three-motor e4WD drive system providing a GM-estimated as much as 830 horsepower and 11,500 lb-ft of torque, enabling 0-60 mph sprints in roughly 3.5 seconds with normal Watts to Freedom1 (GM estimate).
- With an almost 9-inch shorter wheelbase than the HUMMER EV Pickup, the HUMMER EV SUV has better departure and breakover angles and a tighter turning circle of solely 35.4 ft (10.8 meters) with 4-Wheel Steer.
- Signature normal CrabWalk function2 with diagonal-drive performance.
- 800-volt DC public quick charging3 functionality of as much as 300 kW (GM-estimate).
- Rear design distinctive to the SUV and incorporates a normal full-size spare tire mounted to an influence swing-out tailgate.
- The 2024 GMC HUMMER EV Version 1 SUV launches with the unique Moonshot Inexperienced Matte exterior paint shade.
With the HUMMER EV Pickup and SUV, and the not too long ago revealed Sierra EV Denali Version 15, GMC is the trade’s first model to disclose three all-electric vans.
Reservations of the GMC HUMMER EV Version 1 SUV are presently full. Preliminary manufacturing begins in early 2023 at GM’s Manufacturing facility ZERO Detroit-Hamtramck Meeting4 — an almost 40-year-old facility repurposed and retooled with a $2.2 billion funding dedicated to electrical automobile manufacturing. Future manufacturing automobiles out of the manufacturing facility, together with the HUMMER EV Pickup, HUMMER EV SUV and the Sierra EV Denali Version 1, will provide zero-tailpipe emissions.
About GMC
GMC provides a variety of premium vans and SUVs designed and engineered to the best normal. With automobiles just like the compact Terrain and full-size Yukon, all-new Canyon and Sierra light-duty, in addition to the world’s first all-electric supertruck the GMC HUMMER EV, our vans and SUVs ship GMC’s signature mixture of intuitive applied sciences, exact engineering and premium execution. Constructed on a robust basis of producing vans since since 1902, GMC now sells in a dozen nations the world over. Particulars on all fashions can be found at www.gmc.com, Instagram at @GMC, Twitter at @GMC or at www.fb.com/gmc.
1Learn the automobile’s proprietor’s handbook for extra vital security limitations and data.
2Restricted to low speeds. Learn the automobile’s proprietor’s handbook for extra vital security limitations and data.
3Requires use of publicly accessible 800-volt DC quick chargers.
4Of home and globally sourced components.
5Sierra EV Denali Version 1 accessible early 2024, by reservation solely.
