As the 30th annual North American Car, Truck and Utility Vehicle of the Year Awards heads toward its conclusion after months of deliberation and multiple rounds of eliminations, the Chevy Silverado EV continues on to the last stage as one of a finalist trio now competing to win the title of 2024 Truck of the Year, per an announcement at the Los Angeles Auto Show.
The Truck of the Year award winner will be announced at the January 4th, 2024 awards event along with the NACTOY 2024 Car of the Year and 2024 Utility Vehicle of the Year.
The Chevy Silverado EV will be going head-to-head with two other pickups for the win, including another GM model, the 2023 Chevy Colorado. The third contestant for the crown is a model from the Blue Oval, the 2023 Ford Super Duty pickup truck.
Successive rounds of judging and eliminations have pared the field down from 52 original competitors for the title to just nine, three each in the Car, Truck, and Utility Vehicle categories. The Chevy Silverado EV and the Chevy Colorado are the only two GM vehicles to make it to the final hurdle, though almost a fifth of the starting contestants – ten nameplates in all – were GM vehicles.
The NACTOY jurors scratched the only GM 2024 Car of the Year candidate, the new for the 2024 model-year Chevy Corvette E-Ray, from the list earlier in the process. The Buick Envista, Cadillac XT4, all-new 2024 Chevy Trax, Chevy Blazer EV, Chevy Equinox EV, and GMC Hummer EV SUV were axed from the running as well, leaving three EVs – the Genesis GV70, Kia EV9 and Volvo EX30 – as category finalists.
A hands-on comparison drive event in Ann Arbor, Michigan preceded the choice of the nine category finalists. The independent North American journalists who comprise the NACTOY jury took the Chevy Silverado EV and the other semifinalists for a drive, testing comfort and performance to find the top three in each awards segment.
NACTOY uses a range of independent journalists, including those covering automotive topics in print, online, and on television, as its jurors to obtain as broad a spectrum of opinion as possible. The goal is to provide as unbiased a choice as possible to make the awards a useful guide for consumers, the media, and automakers alike.
A Chevrolet model was also one of the NACTOY winners back in 2020, when the 2020 Corvette obtained the North American Car of the Year award.
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No EV truck can be truck of the year. Truck of the year should be based on towing capacity, towing range, and payload, which are all metrics an EV is NEVER going to win.
The expansion plant is being pushed back (Orion). The Silverado EV is still being built at Factory Zero along with the Hummers.
Metrics that are also set by the manufactures themselves so I think there are lot of other things to be considered.
The Chevy Volt won over 12 awards in 2010. And Tesla cars also won awards. The Silverado EV deserves it since EVs are here to stay and will stay forever. No comment will change that.
Isn’t this truck being pushed back? Otherwise it looks like a great setup.
No. Production at a secondary facility has been temporarily delayed. However, production at Factory Zero has been going for a bit.
I’m sure it will be a fine vehicle and one of the better EV trucks, but it will be a poor truck in the whole field of trucks being used as trucks, and that’s what the award should go to: the best truck.
The best truck does not need gasoline to run.
The vast majority of people that own pickup trucks in United States never put anything in the back that you couldn’t fit in an SUV, or the trunk of a car. Gone are the days that contractors and construction workers are the only people that buy pickup trucks.
Got my name on the list for the GMC Denali EV, cant wait one beautiful truck.
Nobody wants that junk. They’re over priced, inconvenient, unrealistic crap. Who do you know that wants to 60 80,000 dollars for a vehicle that only allows you to travel roughly 100 125 miles from home unless you have time to wait for hours for a charger to come open then hours to charge your vehicle. EV is equal to these companies holding their hands up saying pick me, pick me to go bankrupt. Hope someone with sense starts a new car company for us to buy from.
So now it can join the likes of the :
VEGA
CIMMARON
CATERA
MONZA ect. ect. ect.