GM revealed the all-new 2024 Chevy Silverado EV last year at the 2022 Consumer Electronics Show, expanding the iconic Chevy Silverado lineup with a fresh all-electric pickup variant. Critically, GM is designing the new Chevy Silverado EV to do everything an ICE-powered model can do, including towing. Now, The General has posted a brief video showing the 2024 Chevy Silverado EV undergoing a tow test.
Clocking in at a little over 1 minute, the video shows the 2024 Chevy Silverado EV WT (base-level Work Truck) pulling a 7,700-pound travel trailer. According to Vehicle Chief Engineer, Chevy Silverado EV, Nichole Kraatz, the all-electric Silverado handled the job with ease, exhibiting stability and solid dynamics at a variety of speeds.
“Such a smooth, controlled, responsive truck,” Kraatz says. “And it’s just incredible.”
We’ve seen the 2024 Chevy Silverado EV undergoing towing tests previously. Of course, the real question is how much vehicle range is impacted while towing, a detail which the video fails to include and certainly a critical bit of information for those owners planning on going the distance with something hitched up in the rear. That said, in an exclusive interview with GM Authority Executive Editor Alex Luft last year, Silverado EV Executive Chief Engineer Josh Tavel stated that “EVs aren’t too different from ICE vehicles,” estimating a 25-percent range loss while towing on the highway.
To note, the Chevy Silverado EV is rated at upwards of 400 miles per charge, although that’s without towing or with any sort of cargo loaded into the bed. It’s also worth noting that the Chevy Silverado EV features DC fast-charge capabilities up to 350 kW, which can add as much as 100 miles of (unladen) range in about 10 minutes. The Chevy Silverado EV also offers a dedicated towing package with four-wheel steering.
Check out the full video right here:
As a reminder, the 2024 Chevy Silverado EV features GM Ultium battery technology and GM Ultium drive motor technology, while the GM BT1 platform provides the bones. Production will kick off at the GM Factory Zero plant in Michigan early this year.
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I bet that the towing range will be less that 50% in the cold weather towing a trailer. just like the Ford did in test. So don’t say only 25%.
The Lightning doesn’t have a Heat Pump, nor does it have as large a battery as the Silverado. The Silverado will get far better range even in cold weather.
Does it have a heat pump? Haven’t seen anything formally.
If I’m not mistaken Mark Reuss said all ultium vehicles will have heat pumps.
It still won’t go as far as an ICE truck and will take longer to recharge than an ICE to refuel, plus the charging stations are not set up for EVs pulling a trailer, you either unhook to recharge or block several chargers. The infrastructure is not ready for the EV revolution. Once the infrastructure is in place then and only then will EVs be widely acceptable.
I don’t think a EV will ever match a ICE even with down the road technology
I’m not an EV guy but the new Ram concept truck shown, at CES, is stunning. Makes the Silverado EV look 20 years old. Never thought I would ever say that about a Ram.
But the RAM is a concept. It remains to be seen how close the production version is.
You can do anything with a computer generated concept !! RAM is so far behind on the truck EV front and this is released just to grab some attention.
The real product will be much different !!
The Ram looks like a goofy concept they built the week before the show. It is a cheap copy of the Silverado EV and looks it.
It’s no secret I drive a 22 F150 now and hopefully this Silverado has the kinks worked out and is affordable in 5 years. It’s the truck to beat for EV
Curious if we, the end users, will ever get the actual results of how the truck’s range decreased by towing or just more of Barra’s lies and propaganda to prop-up her decisions to battery-power a vehicle meant to do actual work ?
They forget to mention 3-4 cell phones charging or running a A/C compressor or heater. Windshield wipers blower motor! Maybe 400 miles with nothing running and defiantly not pulling or hauling anything!
The video really told nothing at all. There were no towing numbers. OK- 100 miles of charge in 10 minutes, but towing 7700 lbs? How often do I need to stop to juice up? Every 40 miles? 60 miles?
Just tell me what I need to know. A LZ0 1500 will need to fill up with diesel every 300-350 mile’s when towing 7700 lbs (also about 10 minutes).
I don’t doubt that it can pull, the question is for how long.
EV truck with any real options will be over $100k. Wait until owners see their insurance and registration bills. And you can bet there is an EV charging tax coming. Would be better to raise café standards on ICE vehicles. OEM’s have had the technogy to do it for decades.