General Motors Teases Upcoming Chevy EV Pickup
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General Motors teased its upcoming Chevy EV pickup truck during the Barclays 2020 Global Automotive Conference live stream this week.
The unnamed Chevy EV pickup, which appeared on stage alongside GM’s chief EV officer, Travis Hester, appears to be a four-door crew cab and has a futuristic front fascia with narrow LED headlights, small vertical grille openings and a gold Chevy Bow Tie. We also see traditional door handles (unlike the flush handles some EVs feature), pronounced wheel arches with black plastic protective cladding and seven-spoke alloy wheels.
The truck is set to enter production sometime between now and 2025 and will likely share the BT1 electric platform with the GMC Hummer EV. It will also feature GM’s first-generation Ultium battery system and Ultium Drive electric motors, just like the Hummer EV and the majority of other future GM EVs. Certain vehicles equipped with Ultium batteries will be able to travel up to 400 miles on a single charge, while others will even achieve GM-estimated 450 miles of range.
Various media outlets have referred to the Chevy EV pickup as a Silverado, and while this truck’s front fascia is evocative of the current Silverado’s with its narrow lights and vertical air inlets on either side of the faux grille opening, GM has not confirmed it will be sold under the Silverado banner yet.
The battery-powered truck is one of four Ultium-powered Chevy EVs that will go on sale before the end of 2025. The others include an electric compact crossover and a midsize crossover, along with a low-roof sedan or four-door coupe. GM plans to bring a total of 30 new EVs to market worldwide by 2025 and has sidelined $27 billion for EV and AV development.
The GMC Hummer EV, which will be closely related to this Chevy EV pickup in various ways, is set to enter production at GM’s Factory Zero plant in Michigan late next year. The production location and timeline for the Chevy pickup has yet to be confirmed.
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That looks futuristic and Bad Ass
This looks like crap.
For the café latte drinkers.
James, please park the Hummer next to the Ferrari and don’t forget to wash my Lamborghini and Aston Martin. Pip pip I must hurry off I’m off to afternoon tea with my good friend Rupert Murdoch.
Front end kinda has a bit of mach e and Blazer look to it. Looks good.
It looks like a Chevy version of the GMC/Hummer to me? Again, more of a Sport utility truck than anything else.
Avalanche EV ?????
Definitely would be worth resurrecting the Avalanche name, that was a very successful nameplate with a loyal following. But I’m almost positive GM said they won’t be doing that, it came out sometime after the Hummer was revealed.
Wasn’t Travis Hester Chief Engineer for the Omega Platform and Cadillac CT6?
yup!
Indeed he was! Good catch.
Can’t wait to learn more about it.
It should be called “Avalanche”.
EVilanche
Hmmm. Hard to gain scale here but is this truck more a Colorado sized?
It just appears smaller than a full size. This platform is adjustable in length and width so various size can be done.
They have it spaced and hidden enough it is hard to compare the size.
Yeah I was thinking it was Colorado sized as well.
Definitely a full-sizer.
They didn’t include the image, but in the zoomed-out screenshot, it’s nearly the size of the Hummer SUV in height, and way longer.
It looks futuristic!
The new hummer ev looks ten times better than the tesla ev truck prototype
Two Completely different Trucks. Two completely different segments and Customer Base.
The upcoming EV Silverado needs to beat the Cybertruck not the Hummer one.
I’m set on my next vehicle being electric, I could definitely use a pickup for hauling and carrying stuff, and I’ve always been a bit of a Chevy guy. As long as the price isn’t absurd, I’ll be very interested in this.
The front end was stolen off a blazer. Horrible.
Do you not understand the concept behind a design theme or brand image?
The Blazer is the new face of Chevy and other models will be similar to it.
Nerds, nerds, nerds, nerds, nerds, nerds…. The whole world is full of nerds. Where are the Alpha Betas? I want beef, beer and boobs not this electric hippy dope smoking horsesh*t.