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.
Yes, I use 12v all the time. The USB ports they build into the vehicle is junk. They are not USB-PD or Quick Charge enabled. Prefer to use my own 12v USB adapter with the said technology built in. Also the wireless charger they give is usually junk too. Plus some phones from Huawei and Xiaomi use proprietary 100W wireless chargers these days. A 12v outlet is much more versatile.
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.
It wouldn’t be so bad if they used a 1000W-2000W inverter that way you can plug whatever you want into it. 400W, if you are traveling with a family, that is on their laptops, and a few QC or USB-PD chargers plugged in to charge phones and tablets, you’ll find yourself overloaded quite fast. They should have at least used USB-PD or QC enabled USB ports they replaced the 12v outlets with, but they didn’t.
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.
Correction:
My 2023 LYRIQ has all the stuff they deleted from the 2024 model – namely a 140 watt (MAX) inverter.. This kind of rating is important since a 400-500 watt inverter might have enough power to run a small compressor IF you can start it – but of course the compressor draws more while accelerating so it wont work. There may be certain very specialized reduced starting current tiny compressors that might work, but I’m sure you’d have to look really hard to find one for sale.
Too much complication since the old 12 volt outlets could take a momentary surge without blowing the 20 amp fuses..
But on the LYRIQs – GM changed their minds AGAIN for the 2024s and only offers the 140 watt (max) invertered receptacle on the LUXURY 3, and SPORT 3 trims (each the priciest).
TECH, LUXURY 1, LUXURY 2, SPORT 1, and SPORT 2 get no 120 volt receptacle. Fortunately, all LYRIQs DO include a 12 volt outlet in the center console (fused at 20 amps), and a separately fused ‘Always ON’ 20 amp fused outlet in the hatch area. Since these are fast-blow fuses on small wires – gm says to only load them to 15 amps each.
As far as the USB-c jacks go, I think they all come from the radio as the power levels are about 5 volts at 1/2 amp (about 2 – 2 1/2 watts) – very pathetic. The 2019 volt I have is the same, but curiously the 2021 BOLT EUV I have is about 10 watts – which is much better.
Agreed that a few 12 volt jacks wouldn’t cost anything to speak of, and since the 120 volt jacks they provide are super wimpy unless you get those ‘power pro’ things, you don’t have the functionality you already had with the existing 12 volt stuff, which can run a 200-240 watt inverter off of each jack, if you absolutely need 110 volts. But again since competitive pressure from other companies has defacto standardized 400-500 watts, at least you get 400 from GM on the Silverados.
And also agreed that the price of the vehicle provides NO CLUE as to what is provided. My LYRIQ has a dc/dc converter at LEAST 200 amperes, while all the VOLTs I’ve had are 170 amperes, and the BOLTs are 120 amperes. This is important when running a 2000 watt inverter off the 12 volt battery when I’m doing a MINI – Camping. Some GM stuff is just barely big enough, or unbelievably huge, and bares no relation to the type of vehicle purchased.
But the USB-c jacks in the same vehicle won’t even recharge the battery of a smart phone while it is active since the phone draws more power to run than the 2 to 2 1/2 watts available.. And with that car at least, I can’t get technical specs anywhere documented other than what I have measured myself.
>TECH, LUXURY 1, LUXURY 2, SPORT 1, and SPORT 2
God, GM is so uncreative with their package names. On the Silverado you have the “LT Convenience I”, “LT Convenience II”, etc. Even their big marketing Z87 / Z71 / Z24 / etc is just popular RPO codes.
Ford and Dodge had fun with their package names.
Many Dodges offered a Blacktop package.
Ford Fusions could be ordered with the “Sun & Sync Package” (sunroof and Sync voice activation). Since the Mercury and Lincoln came with Sync as standard, it became “Moon & Tune” (sunroof and Sony audio)
Ford has moved away from that a bit with their current Rapid Specs but still, an effort existed.
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.
Go get a Ford. RAM seems to have removed most of the 12v outlets too.
I don’t know why someone would downrate my comment. Our family was in the market for a new light duty pickup. Only the Ford had 12v outlets in the 1st and 2nd row in good places. Toyota Tundra and the RAM 1500, only had 1 on the dash, which isn’t very convenient. GM vehicles have none. Found the same with the GMC Yukons, only one 12v outlet in a hard to access place. Both Jeep Wagoneers and Ford Expeditions had an adequate supply of them in the vehicle for all 3 rows.
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.
400W is no replacement. Especially if you have a family that might be running laptops off the 400W inverter as well. The USB ports are underpowered for most modern gadgets. It wouldn’t have been so bad if they made the ports Quick Charge and Power Delivery enabled, but they didn’t. Plus you have to manually turn the AC outlet on every time you start the vehicle and Auto Start-Stop will kill those outlets.
Good luck powering a USB-PD charger off of 12v 1A which is probably more than the generic USB-Cs GM put into the vehicles can handle. Seem forum posts for the Yukon where those USB ports only work intermittently. I bet they are overheating because GM used the cheapest transformer inside.
Removing 12vdc outlets was a really stupid move by GM and I hope they hear this from many disgruntled owners.
I find the other outlets they have installed are useless crap
It’s really unfortunate. I actually like the GMC vehicles better than the Fords. Our family is actually looking for large SUVs but the lack of 12v outlets is a deal breaker, no matter how luxurious the GM vehicles are inside and how great SuperCruise is. I hope Ford makes a Ford Expedition Timberline MAX soon… That is really the only edge GM has over Ford at the moment.
GM is making a bad move. Ford offers all the options 12v, 120v, and USB. GM vehicles is going for a downgrade. The built in USB ports are underpowered and take forever to charge. I still prefer my own USB PD and QC 3.0 chargers. Plus many accessories still use 12v. It makes no sense to go up to 120v and then get a converter to go back to 12v. It’s a waste of electricity. Also some medical equipment uses 12v. GM is also hurting people with medical conditions.
Little 12volt port, big problem. At my work, we rent some pickup truck to fight forest fire, no 12volt port for the temporary communication cb and fm radio make a big problem when it’s rush to install them. We have a lot of useless tire compressor now. Some portable comm fm radio station charge on 12 volt port too. All of this to save a 5$ 12 volt port for a lot of usb port. On 1 pickup truck it’s ok, when we rent 100 truck this will be a big trouble.
It would have been nice if the salesperson informed us of this missing link.
The saddest story I’ve seen online is a person who bought a GM vehicle and finding out there are no 12v outlets. Apparently the person needed to plug his portable oxygen generator in. Shame on General Motors. They need to advertise this feature removal in big letters to everyone who is thinking about buying their vehicle.