The 2024 GMC Hummer EV has achieved a doubtful distinction: it has the bottom MPGe score of any EV at the moment on sale.

The EPA hadn’t beforehand posted vary and MPGe scores for the Hummer EV, as its testing is designed for passenger vehicles and lightweight vans that exceeds this mannequin’s weight. The cutoff for EPA light-duty car emissions and vary testing is a gross car weight score (GVWR) of 10,000 kilos, a restrict the Hummer EV exceeds with a GVWR of 10,660 kilos for the pickup truck model.

Basic Motors has beforehand posted vary numbers based mostly by itself unofficial estimates.

Nonetheless, some official EPA vary and MPGe scores have now been posted to cowl variations that land simply inside that weight allowance. With the usual tires, each the 2024 GMC Hummer EV Pickup and SUV are rated at 314 miles of vary and simply 53 MPGe mixed (59 MPGe metropolis, 48 MPGe freeway).

2024 GMC Hummer EV EPA scores

With the non-obligatory mud-terrain tires—mandatory for fulfilling the Hummer EV’s off-road potential—each variations are rated at simply 50 MPGe mixed (55 MPGe metropolis, 45 MPGe freeway) and vary drops to 298 miles. GM has mentioned some variations of the Hummer EV will obtain as much as 381 miles of vary for 2024, however these variations apparently weren’t lined in these EPA assessments.

Inexperienced Automobile Stories would not usually cite MPGe, which stands for “miles per gallon equal” and, because the title states, is a degree of comparability with internal-combustion vehicles. Calculations intention to equalize the quantity of vitality an EV can retailer in its battery pack as electrical energy with the quantity of vitality saved in an internal-combustion car’s gasoline tank as fuel or diesel. It isn’t purely a measure of EV effectivity (the Hummer EV does poorly in that metric as effectively, at lower than 1.6 miles per kwh), however fairly a method to evaluate the relative environmental impression of various propulsion varieties.

2024 GMC Hummer EV SUV

Whereas MPGe would not embrace the vitality concerned in technology, it additionally would not embrace the vitality spent refining and transporting oil and gasoline. Altogether, as an illustration, UCS says {that a} Ford F-150 Lightning that achieves about 70 MPGe has the lifetime footprint of an 85-mpg gasoline car, contemplating California’s vitality combine and that EVs preserve getting cleaner with the grid.

And whereas GM hasn’t constructed very many Hummer EVs thus far, the query stays as as to if they may truly assist the corporate construct extra of its largest gasoline pickups. The Hummer EV’s hefty GVWR means it may very well be labeled as a Class 3 car, permitting GM to generate credit to offset the sale of further heavy-duty pickups powered by internal-combustion engines.

That mentioned, regardless of all the surplus, the Hummer EV could make sense as an EV halo mannequin, because it’s reaching a crowd which may in any other case be tone-deaf to EVs.