With its battery-electric powertrain, innovative mid-gate and available four-wheel steering, the 2024 Chevy Silverado EV is quite a bit different than the fairly simple and straightforward GM pickups that precede it. One of the less talked about components that helps to further differentiate the Silverado EV from regular pickups is the gear selector, which is a major departure from the gear selector in gasoline and diesel-powered GM trucks.
The majority of GM pickup trucks use a column-mounted gear select lever, while some of its other vehicles have a row of buttons in place of a traditional gear selector. The Chevy Silverado EV uses neither of these solutions, however, instead opting to use a short gear selector stalk mounted to the steering wheel.
The steering wheel-mounted gear selector stalk on the 2024 Chevy Silverado EV, which will be standard equipment across all trim levels, works as follows:
- Pull towards the wheel and then up to select D
- Pull towards the wheel and then down to select R
- Pull towards the wheel to select N
- Press the button at the tip of the selector to engage P
The 2023 Cadillac Lyriq also features a steering wheel-mounted stalk in place of a traditional gear selector- a potential sign that GM will employ this design in most of its future battery-electric vehicles. Tesla was the first automaker to mount the gear selector on the steering wheel with a stalk, however the California-based company has now moved to an automatic gear select system, with backup gear select controls accessible via the vehicle’s touchscreen.
GM said in April that it had received 140,000 reservation orders for the Chevy Silverado EV, which includes orders for consumer-focused models like the RST First Edition, as well as the WT fleet model. Production of the truck will begin early next year at the GM Factory Zero plant in Michigan, with deliveries of the WT set to commence that spring. The WT is priced from $39,900 not including DFC, while the RST First Edition starts at $105,000 without DFC.
Both the Silverado EV RST First Edition and WT trim levels feature a dual-motor e4WD powertrain, with the WT rated at 510 horsepower and 615 pound-feet of torque, and the RST trim rated at 664 horsepower and 780 pound-feet of torque. The truck boasts a GM-estimated range of 400 miles, thanks to its GM Ultium battery design and GM Ultium drive motor technology, and rides on the GM BT1 platform.
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The avalanche looks super cheap it’s crazy how much plastic this thing has on it.
I swear, full-size pickup truck customers are some of the most nit-picky and whiniest bunch out there. They’ve ruined the segment.
So you whine about him on here I swear guys like you have ruined this website
Sure. Why not?
GM will still make real Silverados with ICE’s, correct?
I’m hoping that this is just a virtue signal to keep government contracts.
Just like my mom’s old station wagon. Nostalgia, lol.
And a lot like a Tesla.
Mercedes has been using this exact design since around 2005, before Tesla even existed. Even the Sprinter has it now. They’re all buying it from Ficosa.
I’m not sure the article is accurate, but if it is, that is how it WAS on tesla. The article is saying they moved it to the touch screen. And people here say gm is cheap. tesla won’t pay for a lever apparently.
Go to youtube and search cnbc gm ev. All the EV analyst say GM is making a big deal about ultium but tesla has been using that same tech for years.
@JWL
I will say that from the Legacy Automakers GM is in the lead in the overall BEV Tech Department once they actually start building these BEV’s.
However, I would have preferred that GM utilized Cylindrical Batteries instead of the Pouches.
And yes nobody is remotely close to Tesla in BEV’s…..Nobody.
GM is about to take over that highly Coveted number two Spot and hope they will. This is the opportunity GM needed to overtake Toyota and VW and for Cadillac to once again become a Tier One Luxury Brand. They better not mess this up!!!
I hope you know they’re is nothing special about cylindrical cells? Take the content of a cylindrical cell, lay it out flat you have the content of a pouch cell.
The benefit to cylindrical cells is how fast you can make them. The problem is it takes more of them and cooling is more complex. So at the cell level Tesla is cheaper, but at the pack level it’s about the same because they do a lot of welding and have cooling around each cells.
Notice the cheapest Tesla’s are using prismatic cells (pouch cells in a box), not cylindrical?
Reminds me of a tractor/fork truck shuttle shift. Stupid level of convenience. 😊
God I hope all vehicles adopt this type of selector, especially the new Colorado & Canyon, anything to get it off the center console and stop wasting space. This is by far the best option all around and easiest to use in the best and most intuitive location.
Are you listening GM, put this on the midsize trucks, they need it the most. The current set up with the gear selector takes up so much space where it’s already limited by size.
GM finally got with the program of wiper stalk on the right and light stalk on the left only a few years ago. Finally got away from the wiper on the left with the stupid multi function stalk. Now here they go making some micro column shift and moves the wiper stalk back to the left side. Sorry, prefer the wiper stalk on the right like nearly all other car makers.
We found the person who’s driven Japanese cars all their life.
American cars never have two stalks per side, so when they have column shift (or column shift is available for that model), the wiper controls go onto the left. This is true for GM, Ford, and Chrysler. It’s been this way for many years.
GM had right stalk wipers on vehicles without column shift for at least 30 years.
European cars also follow this rule, though they almost never have mechanical column shift. When vehicles have electronic column shift, like Mercedes, they move the wipers to the left stalk.
Only Japanese cars consistently have two right stalks when there’s column shift.
I thought the old Ford Escape was an exception with two right stalks, then realized that it was probably due to the sharing with Mazda.
From the picture, it looks like the selector is “Up” for reverse and “”Down” for drive.
Yeah, the description in the article has it backward, er upside down
Intelligently, that is the way it should be, as in the picture. Just like a normal column shifter would be, shifting out of neutral. Don’t know how the article messed this up having pictures.
Gm U will keep your F… up truck not nice looking F… up truck. We dont whent F… electric truck, they are no F… good, U are crazy & sick… GM
Vas chier Lehoux.
Thank God that I still have my Vespa… for all-around great summer fun, nothing like getting on an old Vespa, no electronics, simple controls. Just back to the basics, having fun while driving/riding. The damn thing gets more attention from others than my SUV…
Vespas have had electronic ignition for a while. Even the tiny 50 cc Vespas are fuel injected now; emissions regulations.
Yes, they do… But mine was built while dinosaurs still roamed the earth… mine has a little tiny carb… I call its color “Badass Black”. A real biker’s bike. Just a bucket full of fun. A reminder in my life not to take life so seriously, to take time out for fun.
This looks like it might be a pain if you ever have to rock the vehicle out of a jam but am a fan of bench seat possibilities (in a pinch an extended cab truck seating 6 is clutch!) And also saving console space.
It’s better than any conventional shifter. Pull the stick back and flick it up and down. Conventional shifters have the possibility of overshooting reverse and going into park. You don’t have that here.
Ford made half ton pickups with one-piece bodies for a very short time in the early 60’s. They were discontinued when it was found that the sides buckled behind the doors when loaded, but they looked good and are a rare find today.
Why can’t they keep the gauges like they do today. Divide them up so it easier to find what your looking for.
A big single panel running a the dash is just so cheap looking.
At least this one looks a lot less like someone tacked a tablet onto the center stack. I would say the infinite variability of the screens to configure for multiple trim levels with the benefit of commodities of scale pricing makes the most sense as to why they are all doing this now.
Yes I hate those cheap looking add on pods they are sticking on every car.
And Tesla with that big iPad in the middle with nothing in front of the driver is also very cheap looking.
I know they make other models with panels in front of the driver but they carry a MASSIVE price tag.
Hey Rob have you driven a model 3? They are not cheap looking at all. I had no problem with it. Very intuitive.
Has everyone forgotten that an EV never “shifts any gear”? The gear ratio is fixed. This level is a direction selection: forward, backward, or stay put.
Agreed. There isn’t even a forward or reverse gear. The motor just turns in the opposite direction.
That’s not always true: the Taycan is 2 speed, and so are some of the heavy trucks, like the Allison eGen. Similar to ICE, it lets them use a smaller motor and can be more efficient.