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Sponsored Links If GMC‘s engineers got it right with the upcoming Hummer EV pickup truck, we may someday wonder why off-road vehicles have not always been electric, and consider two-pedal off-roading to be a thing of the past. Aaron Pfau, Lead Development Engineer for the GMC Hummer EV, stopped just short of saying this in a video entitled Inflection Point: Putting Everybody in an EV, which can be found at the GMExhibitZero website launched earlier this week. What Pfau actually did say was this: “In Terrain Mode, the GMC Hummer EV offers one-pedal driving for precision handling at low sp...

Sponsored Links As might be expected of such a high-tech vehicle, the upcoming GMC Hummer EV pickup has more interesting technological features than most would guess. Many of these are designed to enhance the supertruck’s off-road performance, including something called Dynamic Bump Zone. Dynamic Bump Zone is one of several technologies discussed in an interview the Detroit Free Press recently conducted with Mike Colville, Senior Manager, Electric Vehicle Integration at General Motors. Colville is a tech guy, but he’s also very much an off-road guy. In fact, he was an off-road racer, com...

Mike Colville is a self-described "car junkie." He's built 12 cars by hand in his Michigan garage over the years. But they aren't just any cars. These babies can fly across a desert floor at insanely high speeds, then they slow to a crawl, creeping over the top of a rocky mountain. Colville's cars have competed in Ultra4 endurance races where he was a professional racer for eight years. "It was scary, fun, exhilarating and I'm proud," Colville, 42, said recently of the endurance off-road races where truck-like buggies race at speeds of more than 100 mph across open deserts and ...