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Former Hummer communications manager switches teams, now pitches for Volt

Now that the grave is being filled with dirt for Hummer, everyone previously associated with the former environmental bad boy brand is lining up new gigs. After learning yesterday that AM General, manufacturer of the original military-spec Humvee and civilian H1, will be doing final assembly for the Ford Transit Connect Electric, we have just learned the fate of another member of Team Hummer. Nick Richards was the communications manager for Hummer over the last several years. The disappearance of his old assignment has left him free to ... Read more →

VIDEO: Raser Tech ER-EV Hummer H3 goes to Moab to demonstrate green off-roading

Raser Hummer PHEV – Click above to watch video after the jump Off-road driving is a controversial past-time. The drivers who do it love the challenge of getting across seemingly impassable ...

Report: Raser Technologies still interested in Hummer

The Hummer brand seems to be going down kicking and streaming. Just days after it was reported that General Motors informed its dealers that it was closing out Hummer this month, a new name has ...

Hummers are for Horses: Artist reimagines the monsterous SUV [w/video]

When the internal combustion engine finally helped the automobile officially pass the horse-drawn carriage as the chosen method of transportation for a majority of citizens in the United States, ...

RIP: Hummer, 1992-2010

For years, Hummers – each one somehow bigger and more polluting than the next – were the easiest target in the automotive world for environmentalists . Need examples? How about this ...

Artist transforming Hummer into horse cart, i.e. why we love modern art [w/video] 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

In 1948, American-born artist Man Ray wrote, "There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love. There are simply different ways of doing it." This is nearly 30 years after he glued some spikes to the bottom of an iron and called it art. And you know what? We couldn't ...

Rendered Speculation: Hummer HB compact off-roader 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

With Hummer's future seemingly in the hands of China's Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Co. Ltd, questions naturally turn to the automaker's barren product cupboard. How will Tengzhong replace Hummer's current crop of SUVs? With the news that the Chinese automaker would like to focus ...

From Hummer to the Volt, one engineer's tale 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

What did it feel like inside GM's truck group when gas prices shot up over $4 a gallon last year? Automotive engineer Keith Seymore summed it up in this short quote: "In a six-month period, everything went upside down." While in the truck group, Seymore had been tasked with working on the ...

Not Done Yet: Hummer H3, H3T get biofuel capability, new colors for 2010 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

Can a Hummer be green? The brand that most obviously represents American excess in the minds of environmentalists – though Hummer's vehicles aren't actually any worse than any other large SUV – has seemingly been fighting off its negative stigma since shortly after the introduction ...

Eating his words: Michael Pollan retracts Hummer-vegan/Prius-meat-eater comment 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

Want to give your public pronouncement a little zing? Try throwing in the words Hummer and Prius and imply that the SUV is better for the earth than the Prius. CNW sure knows the value of making the false claim. Last week, author Michael Pollan tried a similar trick when he said at the 2009 Poptech ...



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