Among the many many spectacular promoting factors for the upcoming 2022 GMC Hummer EV – its dimension, its energy, its pace – the automaker has been promoting its wealth of options.

Issues just like the Crab Mode have caught headlines, as have driving modes like Watts to Freedom Mode, and extra. It’s all proof of how a lot effort GM has put into designing the brand new electrical pickup truck, which it calls its moonshot.

In his overview of a prototype of the Hummer EV Version 1, Doug DeMuro, as is his wont, covers these quirks and options in nice element and it does appear to be the crew behind the automobile was allowed to have enjoyable designing it.

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The Suggestion Field Button

Maybe the function that’s most original, although, is a small button on the appropriate facet of the drive mode selector wheel that doesn’t truly do something to the automobile. Not instantly, anyway.

The button is solely a suggestion field by means of which GMC is encouraging prospects to supply suggestions on the truck and suggest options that it’d implement and ship out in over-the-air updates, which is form of a enjoyable method to let homeowners really feel like the corporate cares about them.

Though a few of these options will, within the fullness time, doubtlessly reveal themselves to be gimmicks, many aren’t. Crab Mode is probably not all that helpful on the highway, however the four-wheel steering that makes it potential permits the large Hummer EV to have the identical turning circle as a Chevrolet Sonic, DeMuro says.

The options additionally contribute to creating the “moonshot” pickup really feel totally trendy and even perhaps worthy of its lofty worth. Its design feels effectively executed and its journey is comfy each on and off the highway, which additional helps justify the value. And in contrast to Hummers of previous, its on-road manners are second-to-none.

“The one factor I’m stunned about, particularly on this automobile, is the journey high quality,” says DeMuro. “This positively rides higher than Rivian, it positively feels extra comfy than that. There’s no query about that. It has a extra luxurious automobile really feel to it. Actually, actually impressively so.”

He concludes that it’s the best-riding pickup truck he’s ever spent any time in. A powerful and, little question vital, accolade for the automobile that’s main GM’s renewed dedication to electrical propulsion.