Earlier in the month, General Motors finally pulled the sheets on the 2024 Chevy Silverado EV, introducing a fresh all-electric version of the popular pickup nameplate. Now, we want to know – is it hot, or not?
Let’s start with the basics. The 2024 Chevy Silverado EV breaks from its internal-combustion counterpart with all-new styling that emphasizes aerodynamic efficiency, including a smoother, blocked-off front fascia.
The 2024 Chevy Silverado EV will be offered in two trim levels at launch, including the well-appointed RST First Edition, as well as the fleet-oriented WT trim. The RST First Edition offers a wealth in interesting features, including four-wheel steering, Automatic Adaptive Air Suspension, the Multi-Flex Midgate, the optional Multi-Flex tailgate, and a 17-inch-diagonal LCD freeform infotainment screen paired with an 11-inch-diagonal driver instrument display, not to mention GM’s Super Cruise semi-autonomous drive system with trailering.
Estimated range per charge is set at 400 miles for both the RST and WT trim levels, and both trims include standard DC quick-charge capabilities up to 350 kW. Under the skin, the Chevy Silverado EV incorporates GM’s Ultium battery and Ultium drive motor technology. Output reaches the pavement through front and rear motors as part of the onboard e4WD system.
The RST First Edition pumps out 664 horsepower and over 780 pound-feet of torque with the available Wide Open Watts Mode enabled, yielding a sprint to 60 mph in less than 4.5 seconds. Capability includes up to 10,000 pounds of maximum trailering and up to 1,300 pounds of payload.
Meanwhile, the WT produces 510 horsepower and 615 pound-feet of torque, and offers 8,000 pounds of towing and 1,200 pounds of payload. Add in the forthcoming max tow package, and you get up to 20,000 pounds of max trailering.
So, with all that covered, we want to know – is the 2024 Chevy Silverado hot, or not? Let us know your thoughts by voting in the poll below, and make sure to subscribe to GM Authority for more Chevy Silverado EV news, Chevy Silverado news, Chevy news, and around-the-clock GM news coverage.
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We need a 1to 10 numbers rank, not the hot or not.
Not at 105k!
The base model work truck starts at $40k, so I assume there is a lot of room between there and the top of the line version.
I don’t like the front end treatment. The second row of headlights looks odd, like two grilles were squashed on top of one another.
Are we talking hot before or after it catches fire?
Given GM’s track record with the Bolt; its a legit question.
18 fires out of 141k+ vehicles over 5 years. That’s pretty low odds of a fire.
It’s a niche. It has its purpose and place. Just like everything else. This all or nothing nonsense with electric vehicles needs to stop. From everyone. Our government and the companies that are playing politics for the grant handouts.
If you like it. Buy it. Leave the rest of us alone.
This will be a great truck. Excellent range, great towing capability, 4 wheel steering for excellent maneuverability, 350kW fast charging capable, plenty of backup power to power a typical house for at least 3 days, plenty of plug ins for a worksite or camping site, midgate to extend the bed to over 10 feet if needed, and models that will range in price from $40k to $105k.
Not to mention the significant reduction in maintenance (no oil changes, tune-ups, etc), zero emissions, and significant reduction in “fuel” costs. Makes gas and diesel obsolete and expensive.
Not obsolete. Fits a niche. If you tow often, will be an issue. If in cold weather climate, could be an issue. If at apartment or condo, could be an issue. For me, not an issue except it’s coming in 2024.
Battery Chemistry has come a long way, to prevent cold weather from becoming an issue. Just like cold weather can negatively impact the range of a Gas/Diesel engine. My Model 3 Long Range Dual Motor actively warms the battery after a cold temperature threshold, to prevent it from losing energy. It’s more efficient than not warming the battery at all.
350kW charging can charge the Silverado in 45mins theoretically. The Silverado can be charged fully at a fast charger, @ the Average National Electric rate of $0.21\kwh for $42. Charging at home could take as little as $22. Many places offer free level 2 chargers, that max out at 7kw 30-40A, 200-240V.
Try going to your local gas station and getting free gasoline. The cashier will think it’s a holdup. 😂
People like the ones on this forum are deliberately choosing to be ignorant. When the government finally adds a carbon tax on gasoline, let’s see how long you hold on to that truck. Or if you can afford it anymore.
You do comprehend nothing is free right? You understand free charging is not real that someone is paying for it oh that’s right the tax payer. You also comprehend the government does not have any money of their own like you do get that right?
You’re also paying for oil and gas subsidies, did you forget that? We’re all going to be taxed regardless, so why not just enjoy what you’re paying for. You’re paying to subsidize oil and gas Industries, yet you’re also paying for gasoline at the pump. You’re double f***ing yourself.
I’m of the belief I shouldn’t have to pay for anything for anyone else. You want it pay for it yourself I’m not your mother or your best friend. You can’t afford it well sir that sounds like a personal problem now doesn’t it?
If that’s your belief, then you should stop pumping your gas then. The cost of gasoline isn’t really the price your paying at the pump. Get your head out of your ***. You want all subsidies gone, then there loges your local broadband, infrastructure. As a matter of fact, let’s take away your social security you nimwit.
As I said if you can’t afford it that’s a personal problem. Don’t be mad at me because you are a freeloader. I’ll tell you what let me know what corner you stand on and I’ll give you $1 next time I pass it. I can tell you are a straight douche.
Lol of course the cost of gasoline isn’t the price at the pump a lot of that money is tax. You sound like a clown for even saying that.
You think l don’t know that smart guy. I have been buying gasoline before you were born so get off this clown crap before you get in over your head!
You wrote that to the wrong person. My message was to the user named sonicfan. So you are either not following the line which is very simple or you are using two names.
people have to wake up these electric vehicles ARE NOT ZERO EMISSIONS!!! power plants are going to be worse than a gas vehicle!!
Yep, just a gimmick. Our power grid can’t handle it currently.
One plant that can power 1000 EV vehicles at a time will produce far less emissions that 1000 ICE vehicles. Power plants are well regulated and emissions testing by the EPA is continuous.
Proof? A link will suffice.
If power plants are so well regulated on emissions then why are we as a country trying to get rid of our coal-fired power plants??? We should replace them with nuclear, they are safe and cleaner. What we have now are not sufficient to handle the EV sales that are expected.
George S:
One unit of a large power plant complex can charge (at 1,000,000 kw) about 130,000 Silverado EVs simultaneously, assuming everyone charges at home using the included (presumably) 7 kw charging cord, and allowing for distribution losses. Of course, since absolutely everyone will not charge at night
I don’t understand where all the ‘Big Experts’ say there is no electricity available.
Maybe it is because all the WOKE states can’t keep the lights on – such as California and Texas.
The point there being they have no electricity WITH OR WITHOUT evs.
While it varies locally, on national average our grid is about 20% nuclear, 20% renewables and the other 60% is split between natural gas and coal (~20%). Some area’s like CA are very heavy in solar (~13 gig of peak generation) while Texas has a lot of wind power. Northern states generate a lot of hydro and buy a lot from Canada.
But, for EVs also offer the rare opportunity to generate your own power at home…but I do agree the grid will need more generation to support electric vehicles.
Umm……why does this look like a Honda Ridgeline????? Way to take the beef out =/
How Can You Say It Looks Like The Honda Ridgeline When Honda Stole The Looks From The Avalanche?
The first gen Ridgeline was a half scale knock off of the Avalanche, which first arrived at dealerships in the fall of 2001 for the 2002 model year. The Honda arrived in March of 2006 for the 2006 model year.
So as hard as it is for some of you to image, GM was the innovator that got copied.
I like it.
Not as cluttered as the present gas truck and it looks like a cleaned up Avalanche.
Too bad the gas trucks did not use this trying just with a grill.
This looks like no REAL truck I’ve ever seen! The appearance is Ok-good, but I want the REAL SILVERADO back!
Also, where is the chromed up luxury trim level? I think they could really make a nice looking ultra luxury version with chrome that would sell nice.
I’m slowly warming up to an EV in general. Having a backup in case the power goes down is a huge plus. No need to buy a generator. In fact, you get to drive your generator around. Only downside is the cost and range.
400 miles of range, good
Folding second row, good
Towing 20000 lbs good
Payload 1200 lbs? WTF
Is it 400 miles of range on the highway or in the cold? I don’t know, I have no personal experience but according to what I’m hearing, EV range is roughly 12 percent less with highway use and can be 40 percent less when used in cold weather. Plus, on a road trip, one would really only have 100 percent range on the first leg and actually not even then since nobody would drive till a battery is fully depleted.
If the range is 400 miles but we take 12 percent away for highway use, that’d reduce it to 352 miles. If it’s January, like now, let’s be generous and take off 25 percent, so now we’re at 264. Then we would not drive an EV, or any vehicle, down to zero so let’s say we need a recharge with 10 percent range left so that’s 237 miles of actual driving right now in the cold and on the highway.
But there’s another issue. After we’ve driven our 237 miles and pull in for a recharge, it isn’t really practical to recharge to 100 percent again outside of one’s home because that last 20 percent takes too long and other people are waiting so the rule seems to be to recharge to 80 percent at a public station. Therefore for the second leg of our journey, we’d only have 190 miles of range…in the cold and on the highway.
I’d like to see realistic numbers instead of the ones that present the product in it’s best light. I don’t know if the numbers I’m calculating are accurate but based on what I am reading, EVs do best when it is warm and in city traffic where the regenerative braking adds range back and significant wind resistance is not a factor. I suspect what I’ve calculated is closer to reality than gm’s 400 mile range in optimal conditions.
The real question is at 99% of ones driving daily what do you really use? No where near what its capable of based on each individual habits including use of accessories, heating, cooling, heated seats instead of heating on and on. Its good enough for me. My volt drops 25% at MOST in the NY winters. I will take one for a reasonable price which is more important!
>l am very depressed by all this EV chatter. You make it sound like the 60-80K trucks we have now are going to be worthless in one or two more years. Whats the resale value going to be? You people are opening a big can of worms….be carefull it don’t backfire on you.
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You can buy a lot of gasoline for $100,000 I give it a NOT
Then buy the $40,000 one instead of the $100k model.
Great truck if you wear pointy lizard shoes and reside in LA. For the rest of us normal people who work in the country, this trucks range, towing capacity, usability don’t match the current gas and diesel offerings.
This thing looks like it’s been castrated.
This truck fits the niche that I’m currently filling with my traverse.
It’s unibody (the unibody is built on a battery skate board, but it still doesn’t offer the durability or flex of a lady frame)
It’s short
Payload is sufficient for what can fit in the bed, but no bricks, cement bags or 27 steel treestands.
Now if chevy added the 2.7 HO to the traverse airbag suspension and 4 wheel steering I’d be set.
Not shocked to see all the forward thinkers here out in force. Good thing oil will last forever, IC engines don’t polute and trucks should never change from my much loved GMT-800 DMax/manual shift.
But given the opportunity to install solar and wind at home to fuel an electric Silverado is an interesting opportunity while I waited for hydrogen fuel cells to come around.
So, ya, this 2006 2500HD daily driving, 2019 3500 dually vacation cruzing pickup owner likes the Silverado EV. Like it a lot more than an electric car, way more useful. Maybe not as useful as my dually, but it would do just fine as a daily truck.
I liked it enough to put my money down. Paint black GM, to match my 87 Grand National…
@ Joe Rainville I think most of the people putting down EV”s and hoping they don’t make it big time are me mechanics who only know how to work on ICE engine vehicles and don’t to upgrade their shops and the big OIL companies who are afraid this will catch on and they will lose profits. I think that EV’s are a good idea and yes you can keep ICE vehicles on the market for people who want them.
Take the tinfoil hat off you sound like a conspiracy theorist.
Incorrect. This EV hater is a millennial farm boy who grew up trying to use electric buggies to replace his ancient Honda 4trax. It didn’t work FYI. I need a truck and mandating me drive a crap box like this will put me out of business. I farm the Appalachian foothills, and it’s so rocky and rough that this think will undoubtedly get cortorted and blow up. They can’t even keep these things from blowing up driving easy on the flat. This makes absolutely no sense when modern engines emit numerically cleaner air than they take in ( they basically are pollutant incinerator like you see in large chemical plants, and they use converters to clean themselves up all the way) and we have an unlimited supply of oil, weather it’s through oil self replacement, carbon capture or bio fuel.
EV hater, ambient air would have to be fairly polluted for hydrocarbon burning engine to clean it up, but even then your still adding CO2 and trace products of combustion to the mix. Someplace with lots of Diesel soot or such perhaps, but I think your better off not creating tailpipe emissions to begin with.
Pretty sure the GM engineers have the chassis, suspensions and batteries figured out enough to handle your rocky farm roads and not leave a crater where tire tracks were meant to be.
I do ‘admire’ your very non-millennial view that oil is forever unlimited. It’s not accurate, but keep on believing. Bio fuels have yet to make a dent, and seem to be too energy intensive to create, minus sugar cane derived ethanol possibly.
So for most people that commute to an office or even an hydrogen R&D lab, these thing make lots of sense.
Every one is talking about mileage and charge time battery efficiency in the winter, my question is about insurance cost.
No interest until we talk again in about 7 years about EV practicality and durability, and after all the Greens and early-adopters have sufficiently beta-tested these vehicles for the OEM’s…
Are,we still pretending this is a truck?
This is not even close to a Silverado, it is however an Avalanche. Which can never be considered as a truck
My former 2002 Avalanche was very much a “truck” as is this EV. My 02 could seat 5 in comfort, had 4 wheel drive, a V-8 and could haul plywood and building materials if needed. We use it to tow trailers. I preferred my regular ‘box’ Silverado for dirty work, but the Avey was a solid vehicle all around and far more useful than a regular SUV.
This electric reincarnation as the Silverado EV has a lot of unique features of the late Avalanche, and will still be powerful, roomy, full time 4 wheel drive and it can haul and tow. For 95% of what I use a pick up for, it will make for a nice, smooth and quiet daily use vehicle. For long trips towing a 30″ trailer…well I wouldn’t do that with any 1/2 ton truck; gas, diesel or electric. I have a dually for that.
I pull a 28 enclosed’ race care trailer with an F350 dually.
I would like to know how much charging capability is developed if I were to cover this trailer with a solar array, top and sides, for your average day. This thing could be charging while I sit at the race track and also when I’m going down the road.
I’m sure that auto companies already have studied this and know the answer.
Could somebody ask the question?
I could figure it out, but I’m sure somebody has already done this so why re-invent the wheel.
Thabnks.
Never enough output from a solar array on a vehicle to be practical
According to google, you get about 150 watts per square meter (or square yard).
Wasn’t hard to find.
Call it the Avalanche
Avalrado… There that name works this is a joke 😂 lol. But what’s not a joke is they (GM) could have broken the names up like they did in the 80’s with Scottsdale, Cheyenne, Silverado, C10, CK… I think there where more names but Cheyenne would have been an awesome return name for Chevy.
You mean the 2024 electric Avalanche? Real trucks have separate cab and beds.
“Shockingly” I love it!
its spot on for most.i still am not ready to go full electric. the limits of recharging if on a trip. i would rather have a plug in hybrid so it does everything
Overall I really like it. That may be because I loved the Avalanche and used to own one. I now own a 2020 Silverado which I also love. I was so happy to see that Chevy finally figured out that wheels are round and made the fenders round on top to match! It really sets off the look! Soooooo my question is WHY DID YOU GO BACK TO SQUARED OFF FENDERS FOR THE EV! Please take this into consideration for future reference.
Thanks … Mark …. 44 year chevy owner.
Too much money for the average person, thanks for nothing GM
Personally I love the new look. I’m a bit concerned about the towing range though (and that goes for EV in general).
When is the delivery on these 2040? Whole bunch of talk and reveal but nothing offered for sale.
This abomination is nothing more than a rebadged Avalanche. I wish they would call it what it is, Avalanche. Calling it a Silverado is just another way of killing the true Silverado nameplate. Why would anyone consider this as a worktruck? Just another of GM’s idiotic choices.
I like it but yes it’s an Avalanche.Also I like the impressive power numbers and tow rating plus the range is very similar to gas/diesel truck ranges.I think the the payload is rated lower possibly due to overall weight,these EV’s are really heavy.Expect 9-10K overall wieght in the EV trucks.I still prefer a gas powered truck but this EV bug is coming weather we like it or not.Multi billion dollar auto makers don’t invest this amount of coin because it’s a “project” or a fringe,this is an indication that the powers that be know that oil is becoming harder to aquire for various reasons.I keep seeing that oil is projected to run out around 2050.Weather or not that is true is argueable but I think it’s information that world governments are reluctant to share.Worldometer has a section on oil and gas and it depletes by the second,fascinating website.
Absolutely love the styling. But then, anything Is an improvement over the ugly ass gen 6 trucks. Problems I see are the price, and the resale value by the time that you get the note paid off. Cuz of battery life. Then there’s the problem, no gas, no squeegee.
It’s the size of a Colorado but hauls way less and has a crap LG battery.
All wheel drive and all wheel steer…why the hell couldn’t the Cadillac Lyriq be introduced with that instead of just the RWD? Trying to keep the cost down at $60K? I am sure that people would have opened their pockets for added features.
Who forgot to pull their heads out of their a$$ on this one. Great going GM!
I’m still not sold on it as I would like to see real world numbers. I do know that an EV commuter is nice since driving my Volt for over an year now. I would have preferred a similar platform in this truck. Having an onboard generator when needed is a nice precautionary design. But hey to each their own.
>l am very depressed by all this EV chatter. You make it sound like the 60-80K trucks we have now are going to be worthless in one or two more years. Whats the resale value going to be? You people are opening a big can of worms….be carefull it don’t backfire on you.
MikePerry:
ICE trucks whether Diesel or Gasoline do a fine job and are relatively clean….
I just don’t see people voluntarily purchasing EV trucks if they don’t want to…. Gov’ts can mandate 55 mpg and try to FORCE sales of BEVs, but if there are large numbers of purchasers of ICE trucks – then that is what they will drive – even if they have to buy used…
Well, I drive 3 GM plug-ins, but for a truck the thing seems to lack cargo capacity. And I wish GMA would talk more about the 40k model than the 100k plus model. Companies that buy the thing will be interested in its performance on the job…. – To me, most electrics have too much power, although everybody is getting ridiculous with ice engine sizes also – except Toyota, VW, and Nissan.
The Avalanche look was never designed for the hard core pickup truck user. To me it was a Suburban with the back chopped off. The Avalanche appealed to a lot of people and transformed them to trucks customers but without the truck look with a little less function, however, the rear of the cab opened up to the bed allow long items to be carried.
It all tells me that Chevy is not going after the Work Truck user as Ford seems to be eyeing. Maybe a municipality utilities department because it is green. As far as range, comments from this forum indicates what uses up the battery range is the electric heater for the passenger compartment. Air conditioning does not seem to hurt the range as badly as heat.
It looks great. Futuristic and rugged at the same time. Disappointed they didn’t have it on display at Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale last weekend.
Not a real fan- looks like a cross between an Avalanche and a Colorado. Also, when I go, I don’t want the inconvenience of waiting in line for a charging port. If one day the battery can get me across the country and back without a recharge, I’ll revisit the possibilities, but I don’t expect that to happen in my lifetime.
No way this is not a real truck where is the basic 1500 body why this strange look thing
It leaves me stone cold!
Based on looks and only looks I’d be buying the Lightning. How many years before the refresh that makes it look like a Silverado rather than an Avalanche or Ridgeline? This is like Ford calling their EV crossover thing a Mustang. I just don’t get it
Given what the teaser of the Ram looks like and the Cybertruck. You better get use to the sail wings.