Army tests electric Humvee for future
battlefield use
Washington Times,
by
Mike Glenn
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
7/25/2022 11:58:29 AM
The Army picked General Motors to provide them with a GMC Hummer EV for a test drive as the service looks to fill a requirement for a light- to heavy-duty battery electric vehicle to reduce the military’s reliance on fossil fuels in garrison and in the field.
GM’s all-electric pickup-model Hummer features 1,000 horsepower with a 24-module, double-stacked Ultium battery pack. It offers almost 330 miles of combined driving range with its first edition and can go from 0-to-60 mph in as little as 3 seconds, according to the company. “Leveraging GM’s advanced technology, this demonstration will prove to our U.S. Army customer
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Rich323 7/25/2022 12:03:49 PM (No. 1228023)
Simple short range EMP generator and it’s game over!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mean Gene 7/25/2022 12:04:59 PM (No. 1228025)
330 mile range?
What is that? Downhill?
Only on its maiden voyage.
Then it goes less and less every time it is charged.
And it blows up on impact with anything.
And the fire is so hot it can keep burning under water!
Plus it is toxic.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mc squared 7/25/2022 12:11:13 PM (No. 1228034)
Widely reported recent test showed that an electric F150 could only tow a trailer 100 miles before critically dying. So, how far can electric Humvee go before it and the people inside 'critically' die?
Unless this is from The Babylon Bee, in which case I'll LMAO.
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I believe that it would be good for the U.S. Army to have a significant number of EV in this category AS A SUPPLEMENT to ICE vehicles. I am confident that there are usage cases where an EV would be superior to an ICE vehicle, but for most usages the reverse will be true.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jimincalif 7/25/2022 12:19:09 PM (No. 1228039)
So now any advancing forces will need to capture the EV charging stations? All the enemy has to do is turn off the power. Or will the Army have them tow diesel generators and diesel fuel tanks? I’m sure this will get Gen Milley another medal to hang on his uniform.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Nimby 7/25/2022 12:27:27 PM (No. 1228042)
Where in the heck do these idiots think they will find charging stations in the battlefield? They ste as brainless as the idiot Mayor from South bend, Indiana
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Geoman 7/25/2022 12:29:00 PM (No. 1228046)
Why is there a growing national psychosis that posits the technology is available In the very near term, if not yesterday, for fulfilling the green caper, along with the notion that the chromosomes that determine one’s sex do not exist-or if they do, they don’t matter as much as the will of a deviant to “be” another sex?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 7/25/2022 12:34:22 PM (No. 1228050)
One bullet or piece of shrapnel into the battery and it is all over. The people doing this to the military are not this dumb. They are obviously working to destroy our military capability
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
sanspeur 7/25/2022 12:39:20 PM (No. 1228054)
can’t ya just see the convoy ? lots and lots of diesel “pusher trucks” and tow trucks .. and battery haulers ? disposal units ? toxic waste battery piles ? OHHHHH the US battery companies are all xicom owned ..what could go wrong ? ha ha the enemies are laughing
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
hisself 7/25/2022 12:40:37 PM (No. 1228055)
What does "almost 330 miles of combined driving range" actually mean?
Is that like the pickup test where the meter showed 220 miles range and it stopped at 85 miles?
Where are the battlefield charging stations, and from whence do they obtain their electricity?
We destroyed the power plants in Iraq, so all our bases had diesel generators, running 24 hours a day. Uh, they used fossil fuels.
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I hear there's a gov't request for proposals to outfit a tricycle (human powered) with a non-lethal paint gun (oops! applicator) to be used as a shaming mechanism against bullys and non-wokesters anywhere they congregate.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 7/25/2022 12:43:04 PM (No. 1228059)
And when machine gun bullets - - or mortar shells - - hit the batteries - - then what happens?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
paral04 7/25/2022 12:44:28 PM (No. 1228062)
I can see this thing stopping in the battlefield with a dead battery. How stupid is tis and a waste of our taxpayer money. This has to stop!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Bmoc 7/25/2022 12:44:56 PM (No. 1228063)
Sounds like a waste of time, money, and lives.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
walcb 7/25/2022 12:48:38 PM (No. 1228069)
Idiots--and that is all I have to say about that.
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Is the 330-mile range offered account for all the extra rations and everything else soldiers and Marines cram into every available cubic inch of space before heading into the field?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 7/25/2022 12:54:07 PM (No. 1228074)
They can install a portable electric generator that runs on gas or propane to keep them charged all the time.
I have one for my house in the event of a power outage. Better be prepared than suffer from laziness.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Venturer 7/25/2022 1:02:13 PM (No. 1228079)
Wait until you see the electric Abrams tank they are working on, and the electric airplane the Air Force has.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 7/25/2022 1:06:30 PM (No. 1228081)
The CCP are toasting America's transition to EV war machines, because in real life battles those machines and their occupants will be toast.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 7/25/2022 1:07:13 PM (No. 1228083)
Military intelligence - lets not destroy the environment in the process of destroying the environment......
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
red1066 7/25/2022 1:13:30 PM (No. 1228088)
I'm guessing #2 that with four fully geared soldiers, this lightly armored vehicle can't go more than 40 miles before recharging, and that's on a paved road. If the terrain is rough, make it 20 miles.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
chance_232 7/25/2022 1:18:08 PM (No. 1228090)
What they don't tell you is that it comes with the standard tow behind gas powered electric generator option, for recharging on the go.
For an extra 100K, you can get the extended battery pack for a 400 mile extended range.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
DrOstrow 7/25/2022 1:18:32 PM (No. 1228091)
'we're being over run !'
'what do you mean we can't retreat because ALL of the batteries are dead'
This is idiocy and it CANNOT be ANYTHING but an intentional attempt to
cripple / ruin our military - even further than what has ALREADY been done to it !!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
mifla 7/25/2022 1:26:21 PM (No. 1228098)
Given that our enemies would die laughing, it is a plan that is just crazy enough to work.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 7/25/2022 1:27:48 PM (No. 1228101)
I can see it now, when the enemy has you nearly surrounded, and you need to re-charge, but they've turned all electrical lines off.
You can't air-drop a bunch of electricity.
Presume they will have some sort of extra battery capacity, but how do you re-charge those batteries in the middle of winter and the sun barely shines?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Mr Clean 7/25/2022 1:36:23 PM (No. 1228106)
The obvious advantage of these things is, when we abandon them to the enemy during the next, ill-conceived pullout, they won't be worth taking.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/25/2022 1:38:46 PM (No. 1228109)
Austin’s Army.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 7/25/2022 1:51:44 PM (No. 1228118)
Are the mobile charging stations (vehicles?) on the battlefields also going to be battery powered? Somewhere down the line. the original source of the battery power is going to be fossil fuels.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
hershey 7/25/2022 1:55:14 PM (No. 1228119)
I am sorry to report General Wokeness, but the assault cannot go forward until we get a nice breeze to recharge the HummVees!!!!
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 7/25/2022 1:55:42 PM (No. 1228120)
How many miles does it get when you run two radios and a Blue Force Tracker system off those batteries?
I'm thinking not 330.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Hazymac 7/25/2022 1:56:03 PM (No. 1228121)
E-stupid-ohhhhhhh
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
DougTN 7/25/2022 1:58:59 PM (No. 1228125)
Imagine cleaning up the battlefield post conflict. EPA superfund site… Heavy metal contamination plus the usual crap left over…
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
2assume 7/25/2022 2:08:13 PM (No. 1228130)
n electric bus caught on fire at a bus depot in Hamden on Saturday morning and three people were transported to the hospital to be evaluated.
Firefighters were called to the CT Transit Bus Depot on State Street after getting a report of an electric bus fire in the parking lot.
According to fire officials, lithium ion battery fires are difficult to extinguish due to the thermal chemical process that produces great heat and continually reignites.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 7/25/2022 2:10:11 PM (No. 1228132)
Waiting on the M1A1-EV battle tank......
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Paglia guy 7/25/2022 2:17:58 PM (No. 1228151)
Sure thing. Just fill it full of women "soldiers."
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 7/25/2022 2:21:15 PM (No. 1228153)
The inmates really have taken over the asylum.
It would be a hilarious show if the players were not an old geezer and silly, buffoonish children playing with all the dangerous implements and machines, threatening the stability of our Republic and indeed the world.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
bighambone 7/25/2022 2:57:42 PM (No. 1228191)
Next Biden will issue an Executive Order that all future battlefields must have high powered charging stations installed or he will prohibit the US Armed Forces from fighting there!
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
SALady 7/25/2022 3:35:44 PM (No. 1228221)
Drive 330 miles (which will of course decrease as the batteries age and are recharged over and over again), then charge for 7 or 8 hours (probably from a truck using "fossil fuels" to both get to the EV and charge it), then go another 300 miles and repeat.
Meanwhile, as you are sitting there charging in the middle of the desert somewhere, you are a sitting duck for a drone or missile attack!!!
It's almost as if our military "leaders" and our current senile commander-in-chief want our military so weakened that we will lose all future wars... Hmmmm...
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Good luck finding a charging station in the 3rd World. Insane
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
privateer 7/25/2022 3:55:33 PM (No. 1228241)
If this is such a great idea, then Air Force 1 should be electric now!
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
crashnburn 7/25/2022 3:59:16 PM (No. 1228245)
Definitive example of Military Intelligence!
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
TarAndFeathers 7/25/2022 5:04:10 PM (No. 1228298)
Useful for the general staff to exchange visits around HQ, and for parades. For combat not so much.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
smokincol 7/25/2022 6:15:54 PM (No. 1228355)
another one of milley's meaningless ideas but with the way the government inflates all costs for everything it purchases the batteries for this chariot should be around 3 mill, at the discounter's price
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
Penney 7/26/2022 12:00:16 AM (No. 1228637)
What could possibly happen?
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As long as there's an app to show where the charging stations are, and there's time to wait a few hours to recharge in the field, and the bumpers are large enough for all of the Gay and Trans Pride and COEXIST and BLM stickers, what's the problem? Our enemies tremble in fear at the thought of it.