I'm more confused about the Extraction Mode being an over-the-air update for ED1s... Why wouldn't it come installed already if my Fall 22 delivery isn't even built yet? Nothing ruins the fun like unwrapping a new toy and then it requiring multiple updates... but that is our world these days.
So much hope on here that they will build extra ED1 trucks... The GM President said on TV they are building "about 1200" and they have been behind schedule a couple of months... none of this means they are all of sudden going to increase production 2x-10x. Planning for the stated volume of production likely took years of coordination, then it was made all that more complex because of external factors.
IMO - The ED1 is their chance to figure out all the complexities of building a brand new EV platform from the ground up: quality control, employee training, new technologies etc... What better way then going slow and selling Limited Editions of a vehicle that gets TONS of attention. That halo Hummer vehicle will sell lots of Sierra EVs and Escalade EVs and so on in the coming years.
The Hummer isn't the prize for GMC, its everything built off of the Hummer's lessons learned that is the ultimate mission... There is nothing practical about a Hummer, and there never has been... that's the beauty of it... its pure excess in every way possible... and if we are being honest, this product is for a limited scope of customers, and in this case: approximately 1200 (ignoring they will sell other versions of the truck as well).
A few factually challenged statements here... Mark Reuss DID NOT say in his CNBC interview that they were behind schedule on the Hummer Ev program, and big Al (chief engineer) has said quite the opposite in his facebook posts, saying that they nailed the internal schedule all the way though
As for Extract mode not being ready, that was advertised in GM's Hummer Ev unveil on Oct 20th 2020, so that was also always part of the plan. (Go back and watch the unveil video and read the fine print)
As for building Hummers slowly, they are currently assembling the battery packs on a pilot line at Brownstown. The Lordstown cell plant will not start having any production until Q3, and the battery module boxes plant being built by Magna, is nearing completion now, and the battery pack assembly center built at Factory Zero will come online in the fall, in time to supply the SUV launch, and then Silverado E.
Hummer is in low rate initial production now, and not likely to ramp up until the rest of the supply chain is ready to go in the August-September time frame.
