2024 Chevy Silverado HD To Get Reduced 12-Volt Power Outlet Availability
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Several 2024 Chevy Silverado HD trims will no longer offer 12-volt power outlets, GM Authority has learned.
Specifically, the front auxiliary power outlet (RPO code KC5) will be omitted from all trucks of the LT, LTZ, and High Country trim levels. It will still be standard on the Work Truck (WT) and Custom trims of the 2024 Silverado HD. Additionally, the rear auxiliary 12-volt power outlet (RPO code KPA) will also be omitted from all Chevy Silverado HD trims, including WT, Custom, LT, LTZ, and High Country.
By comparison, the 2023 Silverado HD included the front 12-volt outlet (KC5) on all trim levels. The rear 12-volt outlet (KPA) was unavailable on 2023 WT and Custom trims, optional on the LT trim only as part of the Convenience Package (RPO code PCL), and standard on LTZ and High Country.
Despite the removal of 12-volt outlets from multiple trims that previously included them as standard, GM will still build the 2024 Chevy Silverado HD with 400-watt, 120-volt outlets. These household-style outlets will continue to be located in the instrument panel and cargo bed.
These changes follow the removal of the front 12-volt outlets (KD5) from all 2022 Chevy Silverado 1500 trims except the WT, Custom, and Custom Trail Boss. 120-volt outlets in the instrument panel (KI4) and bed (KC9) were added as standard on all trim levels except WT, in which both are optional.
As such, it would appear that GM is moving toward offering 120-volt outlets on both the Silverado 1500 and Silverado HD as it removes 12-volt outlets from most trims of the full-size trucks.
As a reminder, the 2024 Chevy Silverado HD brings about the truck’s mid-cycle refresh. Among its updates and new features are a revised front fascia with new headlights to deliver a bolder and more modern appearance. Even bigger news for the 2024 model year is the introduction of a completely overhauled cockpit for LT, LTZ, and High Country trims, headlined by a new 12.3-inch digital gauge cluster and a new center stack with a 13.4-inch center display. Unlike the refreshed Silverado 1500, the HD retains the column-mounted shifter.
Additionally, a new GCW Alert gives drivers the ability to monitor Gross Combination Weight while trailering. Meanwhile, the 2024 Silverado HD is making the switch to the newer and more powerful GM Global B electronic architecture that delivers improved infotainment, communications, and electronics processing power.
The 2024 Silverado HD is available with a choice of two engines. The first is the naturally-aspirated 6.6L V8 L8T gasoline engine rated at 401 horsepower and 464 pound-feet of torque. The second is the 6.6L V8 L5P turbodiesel Duramax engine that is now rated at 470 horsepower and 975 pound-feet of torque, a significant boost compared to ratings of 445 horsepower and 910 pound-feet of torque prior to the 2024-model-year refresh. All 2024 Silverado HD trucks feature the Allison-branded 10-speed automatic transmission as standard on both gasoline and diesel models.
Under the skin, the 2024 Chevy Silverado HD rides on a more-capable variant of the GM T1 platform.
A prototype of the upcoming Silverado HD ZR2
GM will open the order banks for the refreshed 2024 Silverado HD on January 19th, with the exception of the upcoming 2024 Chevy Silverado HD ZR2 trim. The Silverado HD ZR2 off-road-oriented variant with increased ground clearance, improved traction, plus front and rear locking differentials, will become available to order later in 2023. Previously, GM Authority exclusively reported that the start of regular production (SORP) for the 2024 Chevy Silverado HD is scheduled for February 2023. And just yesterday, we were the first to bring you 2024 Silverado HD pricing.
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Makes alot if sense to pay close to 100k on an HD HighCountry and have the bells and whistles missing. My 23 HC didn’t come with a wireless charger paid 85k for it and waited 7 mths to get it. How long should we be loyal to GM with these donkeys calling the shots.
In this case is the removal of the old school 12V outlets that make room for your wireless phone charger that comes in the center console. They also removed the cigarette lighter everyone uses. This appears to be removed in all configurations that have the updated interior.
Do you still use the 12V outlet? Nobody I know uses the old 12V corded spotlights anymore, and I’ve upgraded my wife’s car air compressor from the 12V 10 amp to a small 110v pancake compressor for my truck. It also powers tools and 400w is more than enough for that
Speak for yourself
Yes I still use the 12v charger. My job requires I use a laptop and my phone doesn’t charge as fast on the USB-C charger. Do you suggest I buy a generator for the bed of the truck and run cables through the sliding window chief?
I still use them all the time. Radar detector and 8” screen Garmin RV 890. Bad decision on GM’s behalf getting rid of the 12v outlet. For people that still use it that’s enough to drive you to another brand. Wake Up GM!
A Garmin? lol
Perhaps you didn’t read it thoroughly. It’s a Garmin RV. It keeps you from taking routes where your trailer won’t fit, too heavy or where there’s tunnels with propane restrictions. Also, I’ve been many places in which I lost cell service so google maps doesn’t always work. So yes, a Garmin plugged into my 12v!
Of course we still use the front and rear 12 v outlets in our Chevy – Garmin, charging phones, small electric cooler, etc. – we even need a 12v splitter on most trips. GM just doesn’t seem to get it.
Construction workers still put strobe lights on their roof. You don’t see those in USB variants because the current is more than doubled at the reduced USB 5v supply.
I have a 22 1500 with zero 12v ports and it’s rather annoying that I can’t charge my hotspot or earbuds overnight anymore, since the USB ports aren’t energized when the truck is off.
What a stupid move. The USB chargers are weak and take forever to charge a phone. I still use the 12 volt outlets for RV rear camera monitor, kids dvd/iPad charging, RV tire pressure monitor, dash cam, cb radio every now and then. One or 120 volt outlet in the cab? Weak. It’s probably a modified sign wave at that.
Offer all charge connections possible. Let the owner decide what to use. Alot of accessories run off of the old school cigarette lighter outlets. Spot lights, air compressors, power inverters etc. For Alot of folks this is a handy outlet. I guess if it isn’t broke fix it anyway.
There is a 110v in the truck, you don’t need a power converter.
Moving things from 12v to an AC outlet would actually require a transformer to turn it back into DC again. This does seem kind of pointless for a lot of smaller items, especially when they are 12V and intended for cars anyway.
Maybe GM should do like everyone else in the auto industry and give you both.
Matr:
Yeah I wonder why the marketing experts keep changing things… I would think a 400 watt inverter (that this truck apparently has) is JUST big enough to fast-charge ONE power tool charger at a time… My upcoming LYRIQ (if gm ever decides to release it) – also has NO 12 volt receptacles, all USB-C (I bought a box full of adapters to keep my USB stuff still working), and only a 150 watt 120 volt inverter which is just good enough for ONE old laptop. Can’t use it for a fast tool charger.
But it has a super expensive 80 amp home charger port (requiring a 100 amp branch circuit in the garage) that very few customers would ever use. Most will charge at 16-32 amperes, like the old BOLTs and VOLTs.
GM, for truck buyers at least, should ask a group of them WHAT THEY WANT, and give it to them. Most probably would say DO NOT make arbitrary changes which needlessly add to the price of the truck, and decrease actual usability.
OK so here is a question I’m a firefighter I use the 12 volt plug for my light bar what am I supposed to do now if and when I update my chevy truck with no 12 volt plug???
Update it to a Ford or Ram.
I guess if you need them you have to add your own, luckily the fuse boxes have unused spots.
If it’s anything like the 1500s, all the unused fuse spots are useless — there’s no contacts on the inside to draw power from. Worse yet, of the factory fuses I could only find *one* accessory-switched circuit between both interior fuse panels. All my accessories (front camera, autodimming mirror, front and rear dashcams, etc) need to piggyback off that one single contact.
God help you if you’re trying to add flashers in the grille and accidentally pop the grommet out while running wires through the upfitter nub in the firewall. I’m skinny and flexible, still spent nearly 3 hours trying to get that clipped back in, with bruises down both arms. You’re supposed to push a screwdriver through first to break the seal, but there isn’t enough clearance to actually do so at the right angle and pressing too hard pops the grommet out entirely.
Anybody who tried replacing the blower motor on a Silverado knows they sometimes put things in really horrible spots where you need *just* the right tool in a nonstandard length
They do make adapters from plug style to 12V cig lighter style if you really need one.
The only reason I use a 12v plug is my truck doesn’t have anything else.