For Arnold Schwarzenegger made an electric Hummer H1

22 September 2017

Brutal SUV weighing 3.3 tons received "electrosense"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, like his characters, loves brutal technique. In particular, he was one of the first I bought a civilian version of the army Hummer H1 SUV, and for many years owned the truck Mercedes-Benz Unimog U1300. And that's not to mention tank M47 Patton II which is also registered in the garage Arnie. But the career of the former Governor of California (as you know, this state has the most electric cars and hybrids in the US) could not leave a mark, so seven-time winner of "Mr. Olympia" addicted to environmentally friendly cars.

Fortunately, the Austrian (Schwarzenegger and himself a native of Austria), the company Kreisel Electric was able to reunite the two car is the passion of the actor. At the opening of a new research center, she presented an electric version of the Hummer H1, built specifically for Arnold. It the manufacturer installed a traction battery capacity of 100 kWh And, for a moment, the same as in the top version of Tesla Model S and Model X, which is the leader among passenger cars.

To build e-Hummer H1 took only two months. Specialists Kreisel Electric replaced the internal combustion engine with two electric motors with total power of 490 horsepower. With their help, a huge SUV weighing 3 300 kg and the aerodynamics of a brick can accelerate to 120 km/h. cruising range is 300 miles.

At the beginning of 2017, the company Kreisel Electric GmbH presented another electric SUV built on the Mercedes-Benz G-Class. A "G" got a battery to 80 kWh and 490-horsepower electric motor. According to the developers, a German car with Austrian stuffing can accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in just 5.6 seconds.