{"id":114761,"date":"2020-10-20T12:03:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T19:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/gms-official-run-at-tesla-starts-with-its-electric-hummer-debut-tuesday-night"},"modified":"2020-10-20T12:03:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T19:03:11","slug":"gms-official-run-at-tesla-starts-with-its-electric-hummer-debut-tuesday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/gms-official-run-at-tesla-starts-with-its-electric-hummer-debut-tuesday-night","title":{"rendered":"GM\u2019s official run at Tesla starts with its electric Hummer debut Tuesday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gms-official-run-at-tesla-starts-with-its-electric-hummer-debut-tuesday-night3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the Ford Bronco and Jeep Wrangler battle over traditional off-road supremacy next year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=GM\">General Motors<\/a> has its sights set on a new segment with a different competitor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=TSLA\">Tesla<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Detroit automaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/10\/15\/gm-to-unveil-hummer-ev-with-splashy-world-series-and-social-media-ad-blitz-next-week.html\">resurrects the Hummer<\/a> on Tuesday night as an all-electric \u201csupertruck\u201d that\u2019s set to go on sale in roughly a year \u2013 likely ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/11\/21\/tesla-cybertruck-unveiled.html\">Tesla\u2019s Cybertruck<\/a>. It will be GM\u2019s first real test as a competitor against Tesla. It also will be the first vehicle with the company\u2019s next-generation EV platform and batteries, known as Ultium.<\/p>\n<p>GM had the time and resources to bring back Hummer with an internal combustion engine to directly compete against the upcoming Bronco and Wrangler, but decided against it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Ford Bronco and Jeep Wrangler battle over traditional off-road supremacy next year, General Motors has its sights set on a new segment with a different competitor: Tesla. The Detroit automaker resurrects the Hummer on Tuesday night as an all-electric \u201csupertruck\u201d that\u2019s set to go on sale in roughly a year \u2013 likely ahead [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}