Hummer electric car is pint-sized

Hummer 4x4s have always looked incongruous on British roads; their sizeable chrome grilles that do such a good job reflecting the California sun and sky look garish on a drab winter’s day over here and the obesity of their bodywork is ill-suited to narrower streets.

You don’t need to be a dyed-in-the-wool environmentalist to recognise 15mpg as profligacy, so it is timely that GM has licensed a pint-sized electric version of the Hummer, which is now available to buy in Britain.

The electric HX is not the greenest Hummer

The Electric Hummer HX is an official licensed product of General Motors. It’s not a car, but a quadricycle. Little bigger than golf buggy, the battery-powered SUV is best imagined as a G-Wiz on steroids.

As with all other electric cars, the Hummer HX is exempt from vehicle excise duty and parking charges in many areas.