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GMC announced a sponsorship with Chip Ganassi Racing for the team’s first electric racing venture in the inaugural Extreme E season.

Here’s Why GMC Hummer Is Going to Race in Extreme E Autoweek 2/5/2021 Wes Raynal and Mike Duff © Jordi Rierola And why the electric off-road series just might be the wave of the future. A week or so ago General Motors announced it was going to race in the new Extreme E off-road electric truck category. The automaker said it would be doing so with its new GMC Hummer brand and that Ganassi Racing would field the entry. Since the GMC Hummer brand is all electric, it would seem a natural fit. We wanted to know the back story. You probably saw GM’s late-January announcem...

The Green Flag Flies This Weekend Autoweek 1/29/2021 FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK You probably caught the news that after 38 years — including the last seven as Ford’s design chief — designer and nice guy Moray Callum is retiring. Renault’s Anthony Lo is replacing him. Over the years Callum was responsible for designing the likes of the Mustang>>>P, Ford GT and Mustang Mach-E>>>P. Callum, whose retirement is effective May 1, started at Chrysler in 1982 and over the years designed vehicles for the PSA Group, Mazda (when it was Ford owned and where he did the third-generation MX-5 and the...

Chip Ganassi Racing Will Showcase GMC Hummer EV Photo: General Motors GMC and Chip Ganassi Racing are teaming up for the very first Extreme E season in 2021. For this electric racing venture, Chip Ganassi Racing will compete in an electric SUV inspired by the new GMC Hummer EV. What can you expect for the Extreme E racing series? The 2022 GMC Hummer EV Photo: GMC Off-road racers Sara Price and Kyle LeDuc will drive the CGR electric SUV during the Extreme E series. This SUV has a powertrain that reaches 550 horsepower when racing as well as a distinct grille, bodywork, and graphics that take i...

The GMC Hummer EV is going racing. The Hummer brand, that is. GMC announced that it will sponsor one of 10 teams in the inaugural, 2021 Extreme E season. The international series is an FIA-sanctioned, off-road electric racing competition meant to bring attention to what Extreme E says is a planetary climate crisis. The 10 teams will all race a similar, battery-powered, 550-horsepower spec racer called the Odyssey 21, its battery developed by Williams Advanced Engineering, an offshoot of the Williams Formula 1 team. The Hummer team will be managed by Chip Ganassi Racing of IndyCar and IMSA rac...