GM Begins Testing Chevy Silverado EV RST: Photos
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Unveiled all the way back in January 2022, the 2024 Chevy Silverado EV is the much anticipated relative to the 2022 GMC Hummer EV Pickup. So far, we’ve only captured photos of the Silverado EV outfitted in what appears to be the Work Truck (WT) trim. Now, GM Authority spies have captured what are likely the very first on-the-road photos of the Silverado EV finished in the RST trim level.
Positioned as the range-topping model of the Silverado EV for the 2023 calendar year, this RST – short for Rally Sport Truck – looks to be in nearly production-ready form. Right away, we notice the silver paint, which provides a tasteful contrast with the black accents found throughout the exterior, along with the massive 24-inch wheels, which – as GM Authority reported previously – are the largest fitted to a production vehicle yet.
Up front, we see the coast-to-coast front LED running lights, which originate from a presently-missing Chevy Bow Tie. Also present and accounted for is the two-tiered front headlamp arrangement, which is seen on multiple models across the Chevy lineup, as well the body-colored trim panel between the headlight clusters. This trim panel is part of the frunk assembly, and also serves as a faux grille of sorts.
The rest of the front fascia is split into two parts. The first – painted black – surrounds the faux grille panel and headlamp clusters. The second is positioned below the first, at the lower end of the front fascia, and appears to have a matte black finish instead. We believe that the first section will be finished in the truck’s body color on the production model, and GM simply decided to forego painting it for this prototype.
Moving around to the side, we get a better look at those humongous 24-inch rollers, which are similar but not the same as the ones on the show truck. We also see a set of body-colored door handles, along with mirror caps seemingly finished in piano black. A fixed running board can be seen spanning the Silverado EV’s wheelbase. Also note the body-colored shark fin antenna on the roof.
Out back, the prototype wears placeholder taillights set within the same housing as the show truck, complete with the forward-pointing horizontal spear. The rear bumper is unpainted, but features Chevy’s signature CornerStep rear bumper treatment, albeit modified for the Silverado EV. Interestingly, this particular unit is equipped with the Multi-Flex tailgate, representing the first sighting of a Silverado EV with this feature. In fact, it appears as though it was lifted straight from the recently-announced GMC Sierra EV. Additionally, we should note that this prototype is equipped with the tow hitch receiver just below the license plate.
As a reminder, the 2024 Silverado EV will launch in two different trims – WT and RST. The WT will launch in Spring 2023, with the RST following later in Fall 2023. The RST First Edition has several noteworthy features over the base WT, including:
- Four-wheel steering
- Automatic adaptive air suspension
- Multi-Flex midgate
- Available Mulit-Flex tailgate
- 17-inch-diagonal LCD infotainment screen paired with a 11-inch diagonal driver instrument display, along with a multi-color driver head-up display
- Trailering-capable Super Cruise
In regards to powertrain, output is sourced from Ultium batteries and fed to Ultium Drive motors. Powering a dual-motor drivetrain, the Silverado RST produces up to 754 horsepower and 785 pound-feet of torque in the available Wide Open Watts Mode, yielding a zero to 60 sprint in less than 4.5 seconds.
As for structure, the 2024 Silverado EV rides on a variant of the GM BT1 platform, which also underpins the GMC Sierra EV, as well as the GMC Hummer EV Pickup and GMC Hummer EV SUV.
Production will take place at the GM Factory Zero plant in Michigan (née GM Detroit-Hamtramck plant) and eventually at the GM Lake Orion plant. Pricing for the Silverado EV RST will start at $105,000, plus destination freight charge (DFC).
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Lets start building these in high Volume GM.
Stop talking about EV’s and start producing them!!!
You don’t want to rush gm into anything. Actually it is best to wait and buy the last model year it is produced.
If it’s worth doing its worth doing properly!
Lol I Love how GM removed the badge of the truck to disguise its brand, and yet clearly the bow tie placeholder clearly shows it’s a Chevy.
Since the truck has already been publicly unveiled, there’s no reason or intention by GM to hide the brand. More likely that it just simply was not fitted as this is a prototype and is also missing numerous other features that weren’t required for testing.
What is that knob sticking out of the tail lights?
Man that is ugly ..
same thought here.
Still don’t like the front end Bolt look.. GMC Sierra looks a lot better.. but also why don’t they offer the 1000 horsepower and ft/lbs of torque like the Hummer EV?
One thing that will do for sure is drive up an already expensive Price Tag for that truck, the Horsepower Ratio in my opinion for both the WT and RST EV; Is far more than what most current ICE Truck owners have under their hoods.
Still don’t like front end Bolt look.. GMC Sierra looks a lot better.. but also why don’t they offer the 1000 horsepower and ft/lbs of torque like the Hummer Wv?
Damn that’s ugly.
same thought here.
Avalanche like rear window/C pillar was ugly then and is ugly now. I am big EV and PHEV fan (have Bolt EUV and X5 45e) but I want a PHEV in a pickup. 40+ mile range on electric and the 2.7turbo will do to replace my 2020 GMC Sierra 1500.
2.7 turbo ? You planet killer.
Make the affordable models now,period….
Avalanche EV. Why call this a Silverado?
So Fugly! It should be called an Avalanche,,, make the Silverado more of a real truck!
sure does look like a crappleanche to me.
I get the whole EV push which is inevitable but at that price I’ll wait forthe repo sales!
Getting rid of the goofy looking black clad on the sides of the front and rear fenders would definitely be a plus. Don’t know where some of these wheel designs are coming from but they look like cheap hubcaps. Other than the clad and wheels it looks pretty good.
GM (and all other automobile brands) has done their research.
This new EV technology costs approximately twice as much as their ICE counterparts. Of course, there are many fools in the consumer market that will finance one for 10 years at $1,000 per month and will still have a repo man outside of their house, winching their vehicle onto a rollback. GM will then resell them to another fool. Rinse and repeat.
The US Dept. of Energy has already stated that the price of Li-On batteries has decreased some, but will remain high for at least another 10 years. By then, demand will have increased, and inflation will have continued on its upward trajectory and it won’t matter anyways. The $100k 1/2 ton pickup will be standard across the board.
When corporations see that consumers are willing to pay more, they WILL charge more. Enjoy.
ICE forever! With gas below $3 now there’s no reason to inconvenience myself with an EV!
Below $3 per gallon? I wish.
In my state, it is still $4. It’d be a lot better if it was ~$2 per gallon, like it was in December of 2020.
I’d love to see your cost analysis on why you think an EV like this costs double that of a combustion vehicle (note as someone who works in engineering and does cost analysis you are 100% false).
Yes this EV Silverado will cost more to make than a combustion Silverado. But once up to scale the cost difference will be a lot less than you think.
As someone that has worked as a Civil Engineer (for >15 years) and owns a small CE firm over the past ~7 years, engineering has nothing to do with it.
Per GM’s website, a bare bones (ICE RST Silverado) starts at ~$52,500. A bare bones (EV RST Silverado) starts at ~$103,000.
Do you wish to continue?
The EV RST isn’t bare bones… it’s fully loaded with every feature.
For anybody that knows anything about automobile trims, they know that an RST is not a bare bones model.
What I was attempting to explain, was that an EV RST trim vs. an ICE RST trim is doubling the MSRP. If someone is foolish enough to pay it, so be it. The End.
Please, go take a nap.
The RST will be the range-topping trim for the Silverado EV according to all information published so far. The RST for the ICE Silverado is midrange. Considering that the actual range-topping trim for the ICE Silverado (High Country) can be spec’d well into the $80k range, you’re not looking at anywhere near double the price.
Again, your engineering degree brings zero to the table in an discussion on automobiles, so stop using that as a narrative. Unless you are in that field directly, it is the same knowledge as someone who is a janitor might bring to the discussion. On top of that, 15 years? So you are mid 30’s and maybe mid management at a company, yup, that does a ton for your argument!
That 105k is the fully loaded RST first edition. The base RST will probably start around 80-85k based on the 3WT is at 74k.
So yes, please continue how a much lower production vehicle to start is higher than an ICE vehicle that is producing a tenth what the ICE is. It will normalize and become cheaper eventually. Battery vehicles are much less complicated with much less moving parts, it just needs to scale up and people need to look past the “first editions” that come out at an extreme price point as that isn’t the price most will pay, just the select few that have to be the first.
I work in product design and work with marketing and I’m involved in pricing strategies. What makes you think that pricing is related to cost? Cost is one of the smallest factors in how a product is priced.
Companies price things based on what the market will bare, long term strategic goals and supply/demand. The only time cost is brought up is in the early business case to ensure that the market price will be sufficiently high enough to give margins to justify the business case.
How your cost analysis in an engineering field that has zero ties to GM or auto manufacturers first hand, that does nothing to prove your point. I love when people try and rationalize how their field of work gives them expertise on something that has zero relatability. Oh, you are a nuclear engineer, tell me how that equates to knowledge in transmission design and engineering…
With that out of the way because that always bugs me when engineers say that you are right on the how the cost won’t be too far off once scaled up, they have said that time and time again and studies have shown it.
Truly spoken like someone with zero knowledge of logic and rationale.
Not only do we engineers…develop, design and manufacture said items, but we are here to analyze any dilemma that may arise. Are we all perfect? Heck no!!! But a random internet poster, with zero credentials, is laughable at best.
Okay then you know your wrong? I’m an engineer that has been working for more than 20 years. I’ve worked some of that directly in the automotive industry. Today I work with heating appliances and their controls. But we follow a lot of the same development processes as the automotive industry.
Yes engineers develop and design many items. And we do many cost analysis and have a very good understanding of how much it costs to make something. But you used MSRP price as a basis for your justification. Which leads me to believe you have no idea what your talking about.
Do you honestly think GM applies a fixed margin to all their vehicles? (I 100% know they don’t). So MSRP most certainly does not reflect cost.
Also have you seen what goes on in the subassembly of a combustion powertrain? I worked for a Tier 1 supplier that integrated ~400 parts into just 4 subassemblies that were used for just the air-fuel system of a vehicle.
Yes EV battery cells are an expensive part of a vehicle. Yes up front there is higher raw material consumption. However the subassemblies are far less complex in an EV and there is a large amount of overhead that will be removed once scaled up. There is a lot missing from your logic.
*you’re
Again, go take a nap.
A perfect example of what I stated earlier: ~15 years ago, the video game/computer industry decided to test the waters and see what consumers were willing to pay. What did they do? At the time, new video games were $50/each. They decided to develop “Special Edition” games and put them on the shelves for $60/each to see if consumers would pay the extra $10. They flew off of the shelves like crazy and guess what? The following year, ALL games were increased to $60/each.
Imbeciles paid more; therefore, the corporations pumped up the price. There is a lot more to it than just this, but if people are willing to pay more, companies will charge more.
I currently have a half-eaten pastrami sandwich posted on Ebay, with a starting bid of $500,000. Please go and click “Buy It Now”. I’ll post another one tomorrow. A fool is born everyday.
Infamous…more like clueless.
I am an electrification engineer working in aerospace, but spent the first half of my career in automotive. Your dismissal of engineers is typically small minded ,”IKE” (I know everything) internet expert BS. Any of your points are lost in arrogance.
Image that an all new platform with an all new propulsion system has a margine over high volume embedded technology. Shocking news. But yet the bare bones work truck will start in the $40’s. The “bare bones” RST is top of the line with every available option.
Now, sit down, the adults are talking. Most of cost is in the 200kwh battery battery pack vs an ICE vehicle. The electric motors and controllers are not cheap, especially the first generation, but they are probably not the cost drivers here.
And example of low cost is probably the Bolt, as even with it’s battery issues in the past, it remains on of the lowest cost EV’s in the US, and isn’t much more than an ICE equivalent car. Then you need to look at total cost of ownership. For example I won’t be burning a thousand gallons of diesel per year once my EV arrives vs. the electric power consumption.
So chill out, get your facts straight and quit being such a jerk to everyone.
Mr. Rainville,
A jerk?
It seems that you need to go back through this thread and read my comments. Please allow them to fully digest within your mind.
In the end, as I have stated dozens of times before, if people want to pay twice the amount for an EV, that is their deal. We live in a Free Market society. By all means, go for it. I am not against EV’s at all. One of my good friends has a new Tesla and it can run with my highly modified ’11 Camaro SS and my bolt-on C7 GS.
When it comes to finance, I want to pay less and get more. If others want to do the opposite, that is certainly their right too. Paying approximately twice as much, just to say your vehicle runs on Li-On? Go for it. Every consumer has that right. 🙂
I will wait until the EV prices come down (if ever).
I think plug in hybrid is the way to go… avalanche was great and versatile and they should repeat it but….They have the Hummer, why make another???
This vehicle is much longer than the EV hummer, has more cargo room and towing.
Hybrids are “ok” but do little to really lower fuel consumption in a pickup truck. My Dad had a 2009 GMC 2-mode hybrid that got 20 mph. My 2006 Dmax manual always got better.
There are a lot of former Avalanche owners that liked them, me included.
The front of this Silverado is the Trailboss grill, not RST.
I dont like this Avalanche masquerading as a Silverado EV. Give us a Silverado based off the concept drawing that was posted recently, at least that looks like a real Silverado truck.
Very nice to see an RST in the streets. Dispite what some the “internet experts” on here think, I like the looks, style and capabilities. I reserved a WT instead of an RST so I can choose what options add value to me.
Assuming the 400 miles of range and performance numbers are accurate to the final product, this will be a great truck. I am looking forward to being able to have one in my driveway.