Production is now slated to begin at the former Detroit Hamtramck Assembly Plant less than two years after GM announced a massive $2.2 billion investment to completely renovate the plant to produce a variety of all-electric trucks and SUVs.
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DETROIT — General Motors Company will close the booking for his electric GMC Hummer pickup truck and the upcoming GMC Hummer SUV after more than 90,000 vehicles were reserved, the company said Wednesday.
Closing reservations is a way for the automaker to try to fulfill its current list of reserved cars, which extends through at least 2024. approximately $85,000 and $111,000.
GM said it plans to close reservations for both vehicles starting Thursday. Anyone who wants to reserve one of the electric trucks has until the end of Wednesday to do so.
Since the beginning of this year, GM has been slowly ramping up production of the Hummer EV pickup truck. As of the end of June, the company sold less than 400 cars. The SUV version It is expected to start arriving at dealers and customers in early 2023.
The 2024 GMC Hummer EV SUV and the 2022 GMC Hummer EV Station Wagon, or SUT.
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Duncan Aldred, GMC’s global head, said production of the SUV should come sooner than the pickup truck, which is GM’s first next-generation consumer vehicle. Ultium batteries and vehicle platform.
“We knew it was going to be a slow growth. But next year, if you look at the calendar year, I think you’re going to see a normalized year,” he told CNBC last week at the Detroit Auto Show. “If we do an SUV, it has to go right away. … Next year is going to be a big year for the Hummer EV, both for trucks and SUVs.”
GM’s solution is as follows Ford motor after reservations for the F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck close gaining approximately 200,000 units. It also closed reservations for the Mustang Mach-E electric crossover, but they have since reopened.