First Manufacturing 2024 GMC HUMMER EV Version 1 SUV Raises $500,000 for Tread Frivolously! at Barrett-Jackson

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First Manufacturing 2024 GMC HUMMER EV Version 1 SUV Raises $500,000 for Tread Frivolously! at Barrett-Jackson

Sale contributes to group’s mission of leisure stewardship and schooling

2023-01-30


Scottsdale, Ariz. – Tread Frivolously!, a non-profit devoted to selling outside recreation by means of 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 total quantity raised for the GMC HUMMER EV SUV, as Barrett-Jackson waived the charges and commissions sometimes related to their collector car auctions.

“We’re proud to assist Tread Frivolously! and their mission by means of the monumental sale of VIN 001 of the GMC HUMMER EV Version 1 SUV at Barrett-Jackson,” mentioned Duncan Aldred, international vp of Buick and GMC. “We’re honored to begin the 12 months off with this donation to an amazing trigger. With the continued assist of Barrett-Jackson to make this donation 100% a charitable endeavor, proceeds will assist Tread Frivolously! and their mission of environmental conservation.”

Tread Frivolously!’s aim is to stability the wants of the individuals who get pleasure from outside 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 shall be used to assist its conservation mission in addition to promote outside ethics and a way of fine stewardship in nature.

“We are able to’t thank the GMC model and Barrett-Jackson sufficient for this superb assist,” mentioned Matt Caldwell, Govt Director of Tread Frivolously! “This funding will make quite a few path restorations initiatives and academic packages doable 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 commonplace Watts to Freedom1 (GM estimate).
  • With a virtually 9-inch shorter wheelbase than the HUMMER EV Pickup, the HUMMER EV SUV has larger departure and breakover angles and a tighter turning circle of solely 35.4 ft (10.8 meters) with 4-Wheel Steer.
  • Signature commonplace CrabWalk characteristic2 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 regular 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 colour.

With the HUMMER EV Pickup and SUV, and the lately revealed Sierra EV Denali Version 15, GMC is the business’s first model to disclose three all-electric vans.

Reservations of the GMC HUMMER EV Version 1 SUV are at present full. Preliminary manufacturing begins in early 2023 at GM’s Manufacturing facility ZERO Detroit-Hamtramck Meeting4 — a virtually 40-year-old facility repurposed and retooled with a $2.2 billion funding dedicated to electrical car manufacturing. Future manufacturing automobiles out of the manufacturing unit, together with the HUMMER EV Pickup, HUMMER EV SUV and the Sierra EV Denali Version 1, will provide zero-tailpipe emissions.

About GMC
GMC presents a variety of premium vans and SUVs designed and engineered to the best commonplace. 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 powerful 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 car’s proprietor’s handbook for extra essential security limitations and data.
2Restricted to low speeds. Learn the car’s proprietor’s handbook for extra essential security limitations and data.
3Requires use of publicly out there 800-volt DC quick chargers.
4Of home and globally sourced elements.
5Sierra EV Denali Version 1 out there early 2024, by reservation solely.



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