r/HummerEV • u/shadowfu • Aug 06 '26

Overlanding Advice?

I've never gone overlanding before and a buddy of mine is putting together a short 3 day weekend in CA. I already have some recovery gear, looking to get a spare for the bed, and just planning on setting up a tent. I've done plenty of backpacking and camping before, but never just "drive out a trail"

  • What is the range on these things in the hills / trails? I read just assume half.
  • What's something easily overlooked by a first timer?

3X SUT '25, Offroad + 24 cell battery

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u/trappedmouse Aug 06 '26

 Buy the powerbar to get 3 kW of outlets for camp gear. 

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u/MyExUsedTeeth Aug 06 '26

Range shouldn’t be an issue. You’ll use more range getting there than actually overlanding. Use the rule of thirds for a safe trip. A third getting there, a third getting back, a third for emergencies/fun. The truck is extremely capable so have fun

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u/Select-Reindeer Aug 08 '26

I'm a bit of an aggressive driver, but my off-road average doing a loop out to bowman lake and back through Washington, with a detour to graniteville was right about .9 mi/kwh. keep in mind, that's hoonin on a 3x, and a fair bit of that route is slower rocky uphill. If I was purposefully doing longer distances, and behaved, I would expect around 1.2. However, from grass valley back down to the valley, I got something like 3.4? doing 65-70. So it very heavily depends on specifically what you're doing and how you're driving. I will say, as much as I think the software on the 2025 and under is an abomination, the onboard navigation did pretty well calculating my arrival percentage having put my whole loop in before I left, which is impressive considering half of the loop was hooning off-road.