A man was left stranded in the middle of the road after his brand-new Hummer electric truck died.
Roman Mica, who maintains the website The Fast Lane Truck, shared how the General Motors Hummer electric vehicle that he bought for $115,000 completely shut down, with only the windshield wipers and hazard lights left working.
Mica was on a busy highway when he found himself stranded with the 9,400-pound Hummer EV that had less than 250 miles on it. The truck was giving Mica error codes saying the steering rack needed servicing, in addition to a code for the tire pressure sensors.
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“I’m very unhappy. I’m in a brand-new Hummer in traffic, and the truck has taken a complete dump,” Mica said. “And it will not go into gear, and it won’t go out of gear. I’ve tried to restart. I can’t open the trunk because it doesn’t work.”
Mica credited a police officer who stayed behind him to direct traffic and ensure no one rear-ended the Hummer EV.
“I’m pretty pissed off right now, and I’m pretty nervous about the traffic that this truck left me in,” Mica added.
After Mica’s son Tommy came to help him and a tow truck arrived, they discovered that the Hummer would not switch into tow mode, rendering the tow attempt impossible.
Tommy then searched the owner’s manual and found a small cable release to open the front trunk and reset the vehicle’s system. As the Hummer’s computer rebooted, it gave commands to hold the brake and cycle the windows open and closed.
“Putting all the windows down, holding the brake for 20 seconds. I mean it was just bizarre,” Tommy said. “But eventually, after enough trying, we got the truck out of park and actually into drive, and we were able to pull it off to the side of the road.”
The Hummer EV has also reportedly had problems with faulty tail lights caused by bad software, prompting a manufacturer’s recall.
“This is a safety issue, and it’s an important issue, because right now, there are less than 1,000 Hummers running around,” Mica said. “You’ve got to figure that the software is probably going to go in the Silverado EV. Now, we’re talking about hundreds of thousands of trucks, right? So, I think that GM probably needs to take a serious look at this software and some of the redundancies in the truck so that this doesn’t happen to other people.”
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At the time of publishing the video, Mica had yet to hear what the primary problem was.
