This Electric 'Cyber-Hummer' H1 Could Crush a GMC Hummer EV Off-Road

Most people who drive the GMC Hummer EV come away feeling some mix of awe and disappointment. It's a gimmicky, mediocre EV ruined by its excess, just like the Hummer H1 that inspired it. We might as well have just turned those into EVs. But as it turns out, when North American Electric Vehicles does that, you end up with a truck that's better in almost every way, at least off road.

Them's fighting words against an electric truck with superlative specs. A Hummer EV has up to 1,000 horsepower, 16 inches of ground clearance, and a claimed max range of 381 miles (that the EPA will never verify). Getting all that in one vehicle however comes at a price: It totes around up to 205 kilowatt-hours of batteries, which weigh a ton and a half on their own. Its resulting 9,000-pound curb weight compromises handling, ruins efficiency, and increases its odds of maiming itself with a misstep on the trails.

But NAEV's H1 EVs don't have that problem, because they're far lighter than the GMC.