Yahoo Autos How the GMC Hummer EV's Diagonal-Driving 'Crab Mode' Works
In keeping with Hummer tradition, the new Hummer EV pickup from GMC is a massive block of a thing. Like the Ford SVT Raptor, the 2022 Hummer EV, is required by law to display identification lamps front and rear on account of its greater-than-80-inch width. It’s rides on a wheelbase an inch and a half longer than a Cadillac Escalade ESV’s and it’s five inches taller, too. But by the power of technology and a catchy marketing name and logo, the Hummer EV can effectively shrink.
One of the goals of the Hummer EV program–the reason it exists, really–was to make a truly capable off-road truck out of this electron-powered beast.
“Basically, if the Hummer can physically fit on the trail, it’ll be able to finish the trail,” boasts chief engineer Al Oppenheiser, he of Camaro fame.
