In January, the all-new 2024 Chevy Silverado EV made its official debut at CES 2022. Among the models announced were the RST First Edition, fleet-focused WT (Work Truck) and the Silverado EV Trail Boss. The announcement of the new electric truck made us wonder what a hypothetical Silverado EV SS would look like, so we put our team of artists on the task.
The 2024 Chevy Silverado EV was engineered from the ground up to be an EV only, utilizing GM’s BT1 platform that leverages the available 24-module Ultium battery pack as a fundamental part of the vehicle’s structure. This battery pack will provide enough juice for a GM-estimated 400 miles of driving range in some Silverado EV models.
Power in the RST First Edition comes from a dual-motor e4WD system, with the configuration being rated at 664 horsepower and 780 pound-feet of torque when in the available Wide Open Watts Mode. This will enable the full-size pickup to spring from zero-to-60 mph in less than 4.5 seconds.
For our imagined Silverado EV SS, power would come from the three-motor setup found in the Edition 1 and EV3X versions of the GMC Hummer EV pickup. Most notably, the Edition 1 features a total system output of a whopping 1,000 horsepower and 11,500 pound-feet of wheel torque, along with a range estimated by GMC at over 350 miles. The EV3X, meanwhile, is rated at 800 horsepower and 9,500 pound-feet of wheel torque, and have a range of over 300 miles.
Supporting all that power in our hypothetical Silverado EV SS electric pickup truck would be a more aggressive stance with lower ground clearance and wider tracks. We also gave the truck the black-out treatment all around, from the front end accented by the popular black Chevy Bow Tie badge to the window trim, mirror caps, wheels, running boards, and more.
We gave the lower fascia a familiar Chevy SS truck treatment, consisting of two silver-trimmed lower intakes to cool those powerful EV powertrain components along with the truck’s performance brakes. Complementing the requisite chrome SS logo is a red “E” in the Silverado nameplate badge, replacing the blue one in regular Silverado EV models.
The rear end also features a more aggressive diffuser for improved aerodynamic performance at high speeds.
While the RST First Edition will already be equipped with impressive factory-installed 24-inch rolling stock, we included a new set on our Silverado EV SS, along with high-performance, low-profile tires. Stopping all that would be a high-performance braking system from Brembo, with red brake calipers at all four corners.
For the chassis and suspension system, we think GM’s vaunted Magnetic Ride Control should replace the Continuously Damping Control suspension offered in the regular Silverado EV. We would also carry over the Adaptive Air Ride system found in the RST First Edition as standard, which complements the electric truck’s independent front and rear suspension, along with four-wheel-steering for improved maneuverability.
Inside we’d drop in some highly-bolstered front seats with Alcantara suede to keep the driver and occupants in place during the kind of spirited driving a Silverado electric rocket would invite.
We posit that an electric Silverado SS would certainly exceed what Chevy fans have been pining for as an encore to the model from two decades ago, wouldn’t you agree?
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This truck just looks cheap, I think they did a terrible job on the design.
That’s because it is cheap. Looks like a deformed transformer car.
I believe the word you are looking for is abomination.
Looks Cheap….BUTTT The Price Comes In At $120,000. PLUS Historically Cadillac Dealer Mark-Up Of $45.000. And Rest Assured As Soon As The Caddy Hits The Street Depreciation Steps In At WHOPPING 40%!
Needs a bigger screen, problem solved!
Add the 1000 hp Hummer drive line and get the price to $80,000 and it would make an interesting option to the Ram and Raptor performance models.
Nice look.
How about eliminating about 1500 pounds of battery and replace it with a bank of lightweight untra capacitors capable of supplying enough to power 4 motors, one at each wheel for about 10 seconds of overboost. So instead of a 6500 pound brute you have a 5000 pound ultra brute with the same amount of power, although for just enough time to blow off any competition. In addition a motor at each wheel provides extreme traction on or off road plus torque steering for high speed stability and tight turning during low speed operations. BTW since batteries are really expensive as well as heavy, such a truck should be cheaper and capable of carrying more payload.
no, please remove all those bs batteries and … if it would be worth as a car … fit an ethanol E50:50 motor, it can still have 4 electric drivers direct inside wheels, but those cables around with plugs-in sucks
Never understood the fake exhaust tips on the front bumper. It looks terrible
Ah they are brake cooling ducts.
… neither understand why they put fake exhaust on rear too in an EV, but it has
EV shares what ICE needs, cooling. All that power from the batteries to the motors generate heat. During a battery charge you need cooling. As efficient as DC motors are, there still is a lot of heat generated.
Shut up and take my money
Ewww. Still looks like trash. Still slower than the cyclone.
If powered by the Hummer drive line it would be much faster than the Syclone with an S.
THEY ARE BOTH UGLY! the electric RST AND rendered SS
Make it a gas burner and you won’t be wondering why your sales suck
WOW
it is awful… but it is what the guys today like, all black things.
well still analysing … the point is … when go to supermarket, waiting for wife doing it and me staying in car for 1h in garage, see who comes and who goes > CONCLUSION < none car satisfy as design, all with complicated errors here and there
my question is :
Are employees of industry today learnt in stables … well where are the designers ? does it not have school of design anymore ?
Here is the reality.
Years ago you could draw any line you wanted or could think of to create a new model. There were few limits other than the ability to shape the metal.
Today you have aero that is required no matter if it is ICE, BEV or any other. This is a critical part of design now.
Then toss in crash standards today from, side, rear and roll over. That means no more bubble top Impalas.
Add in the extra standards that require so much crush space for pedestrians. That has raises hood levels.
Mix that with the fact people are buying most two box styled vehicles which are very challenging to design.
Finally you have to mix in what the public wants or will buy. The public has limited the market much as with development cost companies are afraid to take much in risks anymore. This took us to the retro designs that now have worn themselves thin.
The box of design is just so small anymore it limits designers when they have to make a design really live.
what I meant is for example , take the 2008 Volkswagen Jetta Sport Wagon
then look at tailgate, it is more or less all plain, but, why :
1. this bumper cut when it is all already very low, very reachable
2. then you have a line which comes from bumper, when reach the rear lamp, it makes a set back as being another designer, do the same straight line, this coming from bumper
3. then at window, well it is another 3rd person as designer, which does not take the same line, this coming from bumper, already broken in rear lamp, and then in window, not just cut, serigraphy is anyway behind, but no, it makes such a strange curve speak not together with the rest.
to make worst the side belt curve is not straight, no why the hell just not simple connected to tailgate handle, no it makes a kind of bump on rear lamp, not all area or rear lamp flashes anyway….
I really not understand, and it was a simple wagon.
then see this citroen C5 wagon, why the hell all this plastic red lens if does not illuminate all, it does not need this streched push to the side
about this silverado, you have a top headlight very slim, then comes a very strange form of a kind of fog in middle which is not really a fog lamp, and in the space was supposed to have a fog lamp has none, just a black empty area. Also in Silverado, the wheels, of course the wheels of GM Authority is better, it is symmetric round, because this original from GM, asymmetric, on left turns to front, on right, turns to behind, unbalance turns when you see the car overall. An expensive solution 2 pairs of wheels, two to left, two to right, to turn to same direction, the front, but no, they went in this asymmetric shape, very complicated, angular etc. At wheels the 4 ones must be elegant all symmetric, simpler design, simpler project, simpler tooling. But then why black colour, use a green, a turquoise, a purple, a violet, champagne, many beautiful colours at the Pantone spectrum…
take the Porsche SUV, you have a very big black area in front, but instead doing an appropriate in proportion fog lamp, no, they put a very small round fog lamp very low, when you had a big area for such, in an immense car.
then see the range rover tail lamp, why this strange steps at side of lamp, which connects nowhere, just complicated, make it straight simple, just 1 line is ok.
and infinite examples like that, all cars coming you start seeing the errors.
Design is not an easy task. Half love and half hate and most have no clue of the parameters that are in play.
On the other hand the task of a hapless critic is easy.
it is … says me i am a designer… the strokes are clear, clean,,, why complicating ? makes easy, engineers start doing their things –also studied both. and a lot problem it is, full of bad people in all activities,,, not really professionals… it sucks working with amateurs
The future of full-size pickup trucks is electric and there’s no denying it. What do you expect GM to do when ICE vehicles become obsolete, stop producing vehicles?
The future is whatever people buy.
The future is only what people are able to buy.
Funny that the EV cultist think government mandates will force people into EVs.
Yeah how did that war on drugs work out? A huge black market rebelled against the government mandates on drugs and now look where that got us.
That also doesn’t take into consideration how much weaker world governments are today & the future trend towards even weaker governments/more uprisings.
ICE vehicles aren’t becoming obsolete.
Spoken like a true EV cultist though that has no clue what they are talking about.
Hint government mandates won’t force the EV change. In fact there is a looming backlash coming and you’ll see it as more protests like the ambassador bridge happen around the world & governments are overthrown.
exact… start , maturing the idea… the dust of politics is down someway… see many keeping the old cars.. me inclusive
Looks like a Ridgeline,
is it me, or are the torque ratings in the above article a little askew? Git ‘yo $h1# together, and stop getting overzealous about e expectations and exercising your money mantra “measure once, cut twice”. Right now most Ev’sare not ready for prime time..buyer beware
24 in rims really. Ride like a truck and replace rims . No joke. Beware people
I have always been partial to GM products but this looks like a rebadged Chevrolet Avalanche 2.0 complete with square wheel wells, I thought they finally got away from those, GM needs to empty their dumpsters more often. I’ll have to pass on this one.
Evan you can say this or that. I still do not buy in all electric, myself, either. However, when you say there is no Sporty EV, what is the Audi E-Tron GT then? or the Porsche Taycan?
Not all in the world is Trucks. Big trucks are only sold in North America. The rest of the world has been doing pretty amazing EVs so far, with less than a “boxy” design restrictions.
Throwing body panels and a silent high hp electric motor is not sporty.
The Tesla Model S Plaid is not a sports car. It’s a dangerous weapon. Just ask the Lady in Tampa Florida murdered by one.
Even pro-EV car reviewer Doug Demuro was alarmed by how fast & dangerous the Tesla Model S Plaid is. Making a car that cheap & easy for young punks to get is just asking for problems.
Then again road terrorism is the norm in America today.
Audi E tron and Porsche Taycan are horrible cars. 1 very complicated, unnecessary, 2 the other not proportional
Just make an SS variant with an LT5 motor. Ill pay for the premium gas all day long. Here in Midwest we don’t have enough charging stations to warrant an “EV” vehicle. Plus I am not waiting 3 hours to charge my vehicle while heading out to the Black Hills which is 6 hours away from my home to go UTV riding. GM make a supercharged gas powered monster already!
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Just give me an ‘SS’ with the 6.2 gas engine !!!!!
Agreed tell them James @James Terral
I don’t understand…We tried first with the 200 mpg carb; then the dream of biofuels, and now electricity. an EMP will definitely shut down the U.S. and leave us all with our pants down…Uncle Sam needs to watch more of the right T.V. Will it take a “wartime effort” to decide on the right thing or a continuation of the haves and the have-nots to decide for us?
I will probably get down voted but oh well.
This design does not have the same appeal to the one we have right now. I don’t dislike it all together but it’s not my cup of tea.. and I’m sure that will be once of its bigger critics once it is out.
Look at the Ford F-150 Lightning. I’m not a Ford guy but it actually looks like a truck. And has the frunk and all that of being an electric truck.
This new GM design team isn’t cutting it. It’s not bad but it does not have the same appeal as the Silverado out now.
Dont care its electric