General Motors is in the midst of pivoting to all-electric powertrains, with plans to fully electrify its light-duty vehicle lineup by the 2035 calendar year. Notably, GM is also set to electrify its heavy-duty vehicles around the same timetable. With regard to the GMC brand, the GMC Sierra HD pickup will be the last model to go all-electric.
The insight comes from the Global Vice President of Buick, GMC, and GMC Hummer EV at General Motors, Duncan Aldred, who, during a recent media presentation, stated that the GMC Sierra HD pickups would be the last of the GMC brand’s models to go fully electric.
This isn’t the first time we’ve heard news about GM’s plans to electrify its heavy-duty pickup truck line. Back in January of 2022, GM CEO Mary Barra addressed the issue during her opening keynote speech at the 2022 Consumer Electronics Show, stating that The General’s HD trucks, which include the GMC Sierra HD, would follow suit with full electrification around 2035.
“These all-electric HD trucks will be engineered to deliver effortless heavy-duty hauling and towing, while offering customers amazing new features and a range needed to get the toughest jobs done,” Barra said in 2022.
Interestingly, this does not necessarily mean that GM’s ICE-based heavy-duty trucks will be completely phased out by 2035. Per a statement from GM North America Steve Carlisle made in 2021, General Motors will “win wherever we’re competing and irrespective of propulsion system,” indicating that GM’s all-electric HD trucks will likely be sold alongside ICE-based models.
For now, however, GM is offering the refreshed 2024 GMC Sierra HD, which introduces new exterior styling, a new interior, and a revised powertrain lineup, including the naturally aspirated 6.6L V8 L8T gasoline engine as standard, and the 6.6L V8 L5P turbodiesel Duramax as optional.
For customers interested in GMC’s EVs, offerings like the all-electric GMC Hummer EV and GMC Sierra EV should fit the bill.
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The Chrome save the Truck, otherwise would be too Brutalist
The first electric truck should have been the Colorado.
As a 140+k Colorado Z71 Duramax owner with a well used hitch and plenty of inside bed dents and scratches if you’re one of the city truck grocery getter owners keep your wishes to your self. With a18 day 7200 mile not including hundreds of miles on enduro’s Ohio to Colorado and back backcountry camping trip I would have needed 2 more days going out of my way to find your great charging infrastructure that would send me towards towns that I was trying to escape. So put a bumper sticker on your Bolt MY OTHER CAR IS A LEAF and stay close to home.
Someone offend you? Yes, you supposedly are in the minority (if infact you do that stuff which 95% don’t), but for probably 90% of the buyers an EV would work and make sense. Do you design a vehicle for 10% of the peoples uses or 90%? The truck would have been a great start, though like you supposedly I spend time in the back country, towing my trailers and doing other stuff, though the amount of time isn’t a ton it is enough where an EV wouldn’t work for me. Either way, they can have both without being so offended, and usually those that are offended are the exact ones that a vehicle like that would work for but for some reason the image comes in to play…
I spend time in the back country, towing my trailers and doing other stuff, though the amount of time isn’t a ton it is enough where an EV wouldn’t work for me.
Your words. Out of the maybe 3-4 people who took time so far that’s 50% that it doesn’t work for. 🙂
It would easily replace my Canyon. I mostly haul my tools and sheets of plywood from sight to sight. Also pull my 4000# boat from the storage facility to my cottage a couple times a year. Again the EV would be perfect.
True, but you from their prospective, they would profit more from the Full Sized Models.
Like I said with the “phase out” of the ICE half tons, I’ll be buying the last generation before they get discontinued, and keeping it forever. Here’s hoping the people in charge get their heads out of the clouds before then and realize that there aren’t enough rare earth metals on this planet to switch completely to 100% EVs
After that I’ll buy ICE HD’s and swap the gears so they are efficient like half tons.
I call bull on 2035. I actually call bull on passenger cars by 2035.
it’ll forever be a rolling target date
Rest, assured, they will not be a EV in my garage
I don’t know if any of us have to worry about electric HD trucks. If crazy Mary has her way, and takes GM all electric, there probably won’t be much of left of GM by 2035, to build electric trucks.
I hate to say it, but Ford is taking a much better approach. GM’s abandoning development of future ICE vehicles and going all in on EV’s, while Ford’s taking a different route, two different business’. “Ford Blue” will continue to develop the companies ICE vehicles, and “Ford Model e” will work on EV’s and other new tech projects. It may be a more cautious route, but it also seems to be the smarter one.
They just spent a billion $$ on v8 engines, that doesn’t sound like all in to me but u like to hate I’m sure
Truth, this is a wise move for gm to continue with new V8’s, especially for the HD models considering that there is no current EV Platform that can live up to the capability of towing close to or at 30,000 lbs., perhaps by 2035, we will get a groundbreaking technology to take it to 30k or just slightly over, but it will be one hell of a delicate move to win the approval of HD – ICE enthusiasts, we’ll see how the development unfolds over time.
James, you said they “JUST” spent a billion $$ on V8 engines. I said they’re abandoning “FUTURE” development of ICE vehicles. There is a difference. GM management has made it pretty clear that going forward their plans are to go all in on the development of EV’s, and to fully move away from ICE vehicles.
I’m not a hater, at least not of GM. There are currently 6 GM vehicles in my garage, and in the 51 years I’ve been driving, I’ve only ever owned one none GM car. What I do hate is seeing what’s becoming of GM. I hate this current management’s woke future plans for GM. I hate their shortsighted view for GM’s future, and their lack of any apparent backup plan if EV’s don’t go over as well with the public, as Mary thinks they will. I also hate being forced into buying something that won’t serve my purpose well, and won’t operate as effectively and efficiently, as my preferred choice of vehicle will.
No electric for me👎👎🤦♂️
There will never be an electric vehicle of ANY kind in my driveway. When my Denali dies I guess I’ll get a couple of horses and turn it into a wagon 🤷♀️. Not buying this battery crap 🤬🤬
Point on the doll where EV’s have hurt you….
Common sense why should the government tell me what car or truck I should buy either electric or gas powered so they could have more control??
Well, jeff sasse just like they tell u to do everything else u do wear seatbelts, don’t speed , u can’t steal , u know bud things that hurt other people or in this case the environment
Hey, the good thing is that you’ll be able to round up either a 2026 or a 2031 Denali HD ICE before the imminent take over of the EV based version.
I don’t care as long as ICE is still available. Liquid fuel should be cheap by then because the massive shift to EV’s will kill demand for gasoline and diesel fuel.
I hope I never live to see the day that all trucks are electric..
U probably won’t
I spend time in the back country, towing my trailers and doing other stuff, though the amount of time isn’t a ton it is enough where an EV wouldn’t work for me.
Your words. Out of the maybe 3-4 people who took time so far that’s 50% that it doesn’t work for. 🙂