YouTuber can't believe how much his Hummer EV costs to charge from 0 to 100% at a public station
- Introducing the Hummer EV
- Only a few were produced
- The cost of charging it is eye-watering
Published on Dec 15, 2024 at 6:00 AM (UTC+4)
by Amelia Jean Hershman-Jones
Last updated on Dec 11, 2024 at 6:39 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Tom Wood
With a massive battery and low efficiency – the cost of charging his Hummer EV from 0-100 percent at a public station took one Colorado, US, YouTuber by surprise.
The electric behemoth features a 212kWh usable battery pack.
That makes it one of the largest in the industry.
Charging it does not come cheap.
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The Hummer EV
According to YouTuber, car enthusiast, and founder of Out of Spec Reviews Kyle Conner, this is a ‘showpiece’ and a ‘halo product’.
In other words: “They’re not making a ton of these.”
With efficiency very low at 1.1 miles per kWh – that seems like a good idea.
Charging from zero to full frequently ‘puts a huge stress on the entire system’.
Going from 5-60 percent is recommended to optimize time and costs for road trips.
This is not a practical EV – unlike Teslas that owners claim have helped them save up to $300 per month.
It’s also maintenance and insurance that savings have been reported on.
However, the Hummer EV won in a recent drag race.
Charging in public
Conner decided to conduct a test to determine the cost of charging.
He juiced it from 0-100 percent using a complimentary DC fast charger for measurement.
The session delivered 224kWh with around 5-7% energy losses and took 2 hours and 40 minutes.
Costs varied wildly based on location and the method of charging.
It cost him more than $96+ for public DC (direct current) fast charging at standard rates.
Meanwhile, it cost him a little over $29 for home charging (a standard across the US) – however, this can be as low as $16 in certain areas like Fort Collins, Colorado.
“That’s 35 cents a kilowatt hour plus 20 cents a minute and if you’re and it’s a slow charger it’s a CPE 250, so the Hummer only gets about 100 kilowatt peak on there,” Conner shared.
“That’s an expensive charge at that point – $150-170 to charge up the Hummer on that thing dead to full.”
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