GM To Present Chevy EV Pickup And Electrification Plans At CES
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General Motors will provide more details on the upcoming Chevy EV pickup and its other future electrification plans at CES 2021 next month.
According to Automotive News, GM’s CES 2021 presentation will include a short video that will provide viewers of the online-only electronics expo with a sneak preview of the new Chevy EV pickup truck. The video will also include shots of future electric Cadillac vehicles, as well as unnamed future GM EV concept vehicles.
GM teased the future Chevy EV pickup during its the Barclays 2020 Global Automotive Conference live stream last month. The truck shown during the stream appeared to be a four-door crew cab and featured futuristic styling with narrow LED headlights, small vertical grille openings and a gold Chevy Bow Tie emblem. The automaker has yet to release any official information on the vehicle, though it’s very likely that it will share the BT1 electric platform with the GMC Hummer EV pickup and will utilize GM’s first-generation Ultium battery system and Ultium Drive electric motors.
The automaker is also planning to drop some more details on its wider future electrification strategy during its CES 2021 presentation, AN reports. GM CEO Mary Barra will appear on stage to deliver the event-opening keynote speech, in which she will explain how the automotive industry’s ongoing shift from internal combustion vehicles to EVs is a necessary step for implementing environmental and societal change. GM president Mark Reuss will also deliver a speech that will provide additional insight into GM’s future electrification strategy.
GM is investing a whopping $27 billion in EV and autonomous driving technology between now and 2025. This will see the automaker introduce 30 new EVs worldwide by 2025, ushering in a new era of electrification for the longstanding American automaker. GM believes this shift from ICE vehicles to EVs will drive sales and growth as the automaker looks to capitalize on the demand for EVs that Tesla has benefitted from for years now.
CES 2021 will kick off with Barra’s keynote speech on January 11th, 2021.
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if he doesn’t mention 2025 at least 20 times during this presentation, i’ll be shocked.
Of course they are. I swear GM only knows what to do by looking at Ford’s Playbook. Every time Ford does something GM follows closely behind.
You are totally right. I definitely remember Ford announcing $27 billion being dumped into electrification 😉
Alexander:
I’m usually pretty good at recognizing sarcasm, but I must admit I don’t see any here.
Please specify.
Nope! No sarcasm. GM is always a step behind Ford. For starters: when Ford announced they are ditching passenger cars, GM announced a little while later that GM would be doing the same thing. Ford had the Raptor now GM is coming out with their own version. GM has abandoned hybrids with the discontinuation of the Volt, but now that Ford brings out a hybrid F-150 GM is doing the same with the Silverado.
GM isn’t doing a hybrid Silverado, goof
Actually, if you look at the Bloomberg report on it. They are.
Bloomberg huh? They have a prestigious automotive writer staff…or not. Did anyone tell them GM has shuttered their hybrid programs and is focusing 110% on EVs… Or did you read that report in 2005nwhen Chevy DID have a hybrid Silverado, Tahoe, Escalade
The only Hybrid left is the Corvette E-Ray. No other programs are going hybrid.
They’ve been, for better or worse, winding down sedan products for years, before Ford
They have the most advanced and aggressive battery electric AND hydrogen development programs. Same goes for autonomous technology. Mass production implementation of multimetal manufacturing, carbon fiber polymers, and so on.
Ford can’t roll a product out to save their life and the only thing truly ‘Built Ford Tough’ is Ford investor patients
Ford Innovates while the rest imitate. The bimbos running the company wouldn’t know what to do if it wasn’t for Ford
Innovate like turbo charging old Mazda engines?
Innovate like needing a heavy duty gas engine and instead of trying to keep pushing EcoBoost V6s they went back to a push rod V8, and admitting that the OHV V8 provides the durability needed
Innovate with an electric F150 that is on a modified truck platform that’s been around since 2013, instead of developing a proper EV truck platform?
Oh but they do have stupid folding shifter in the F150.. which was a solution to a problem they created. Now that sounds like innovation, you’re right!
LMAO there is no Hybrid Silverado, it’s full electric and plans/rumors of it have been around for a long time.
This is not a “Knock Down” response but if you look at the entire portfolio of EV’s that is coming from GM through all 4 Brands, it has nothing to do with what Ford started Mary had this plan in the works for quite some time and remember, their clear target is to get ahead of Tesla, I don’t think their too much worried about the F-150, especially with the HUMMER.
I must have missed the Ford version of the Bolt.
They did Have the Focus Electric but it only got 76 Miles of range until it’s final 2 model years. xD
Let’s see the Avalanche nameplate return for the EV truck
Yours truly actually took this screenshot of the Chevy EV Pickup lol. After about an hour, it was all over the automotive web.
More smoke and mirrors from Barra..
Four words…..
Does anyone really care????
Simple reply: Yes.
Correct. And if you need any more proof, check their stock price.