North American fleet management company Merchants Fleet has announced the addition of 250 new 2024 Chevy Silverado EV Work Trucks to its all-electric vehicle offerings. Merchants Fleet will offer the new battery-powered trucks for lease and rental. Merchants Fleet is also offering the ClearCharge program, which enables organizations to manage their EV charging infrastructure.
“Given the unique requirements of each fleet, we are committed to delivering flexibility and top-tier solutions across the board,” said the VP of Electrification and Sustainability at Merchants Fleet, Hari Nayar. “We are proud to offer the Silverado EV as yet another way Merchants is meeting the diverse electrification needs of our clients, and driving forward this transformative shift.”
In terms of specs, the 2024 Chevy Silverado EV 4WT is equipped with a 24-module GM Ultium battery with an estimated range of 450 miles per charge. GM initially estimated range-per-charge for the Silverado EV 4WT at 400 miles, but the EPA boosted the estimate to 450 miles in May of 2023. Towing capacity is rated at 10,000 pounds without the max trailering package, while maximum payload is rated at 1,400 pounds. Both figures are significantly higher than GM’s original estimates of 8,000 pounds of towing and a maximum payload rating of 1,200 pounds.
Merchants Fleet is offering the Chevy Silverado EV via a number of leasing and rental options, including long-term rentals and traditional leases. “Options such as ‘Rent-to-Lease’ and ‘EV Choice Lease’ offer solutions for short-term needs with possibilities for long-term commitment or low-risk trials, respectively,” Merchants Fleet states. “‘Open-End Leasing,’ and ‘Rentals and Short-Term Leasing’ provide flexibility in lease structure, cost control, and solutions for needs as brief as three months.”
Finally, Merchants Fleet’s ClearCharge program is on offer to enable customers to better organize, implement, and manage their EV charging infrastructure, with Level 2 and Level 3 charging solutions available to fleets of all sizes across the U.S.
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Hertz just got rid of all EVs due to lack of customers interest.
No, Hertz is selling off 1/3 of it’s Tesla EV’s or 20,000 vehicles.
When these “brick”, they’ll be repurposed as perfect boat anchors …
Correction No EV…. Hertz got rid of Tesla’s because of the cost to purchase them and maintain them…if you’re going to tell a story from the news get your facts straight! I am not for EVs but GRF the standard Silverado is not a brick lmao…you sound like the type of person who but the V8 then complain about fuel mileage! I lastly must admit it’s still better looking then fugly Toyota tundra.
Good luck! Never heard of it. Based on the recent Hertz and Tesla cold weather experiences, that may be a dumb move.
Who wants to rent a vehicle and then waste their Rented time and money at a charger???? Nice virtue signal though.
So, what’s they’re backup plan?
Their backup plan is that this is only 250 vehicles and they offer all sorts of other trucks and vans anyway.
Ya it’s an environmental responsibility thing. Put stuff in the box and a 6000lb trailer on the hitch and you’re getting 150 miles of range MAX!!! Guaranteed GM greased their palms a bit to take these trucks. The Lightning is quickly becoming a financial disaster for Ford and any sucker customer who paid MSRP or above for one a short time ago. Can’t give them away now.
Chris the lightning is a joke but I do agree that these EV trucks do loose a lot of range when towing…but I guarantee you must of these will be like a lot of the trucks grocery getters I have yet to see a new ram, Silverado or f150 doing anything like truck work. New pick-ups are turning into status symbols oh look here’s $90,000 dollar truck to match my $700,000 dollar over priced house! Trucks to me are I remember seeing as a little kid in the 80s basic your lucky you got a raidio and AC but they worked hard we need to go back to that it’s like giant SUVs to most of time it’s one person driving it.
What upsets me is the blatant overestimating of range. Watch the TFL episode where they haul a 6000lb travel trailer behind a fully charged Lightning and a Sierra with a 6.2. The Lightning went 105 miles with the extended range battery!!!!! It was below 20% charge. The Sierra went that distance, plus it doubled back to the charging station where the Ford had to retreat to, plus the Sierra had another 155 miles of range. Let’s face it, the techs who are trained to fix the glitches in these EV’s are like hen’s teeth, extremely scarce!!! People are waiting months to get their Lightning’s fixed.
They don’t estimate the range when pulling 6000 lbs anymore than you’d use that for fuel economy numbers.
What confuses everyone though is that the EPA range estimate is an average of city and highway, but city is far better than highway numbers on an EV.
So yeah, if you take a Lightning out on the highway at 75mph, your range is going to suck.
Its higher in the city becuase stop and go traffic allows for range gain through regnerative braking. Typically on the highway you are running at a constant speed/load with little to no extended hard brake applications.That constant speed/load also requires a constant flow of discharging electricty, and since EVs typically dont utilize a transmission, its direct drive.
Perhaps I’m sounding slightly smug and biased because I built trucks for GM in Oshawa for a couple decades. We ran 3 shifts plus overtime for 14 years straight. The Lightning comes out a few years ago and already production is slashed 50%. Chevy Man is correct. People are struggling with the cost. In 2006 I bought a new Sierra crew cab 4×4 SLE, not a loaded truck by any measure but not a rubber floored WT either. It was $33,500, $50,000 in today’s money. Try and find a 50 grand truck like that today. They start at $70,000.
Motor Trend owns a Ford Lightning as a long-term test vehicle. They stated that Ford should not even be able to sell them to the public because of their range issues.
Ford just announced the Lightning plant is cutting another shift and 1400 jobs. Does GM really think the Silverado EV is gonna do any better. The F150 is the best selling vehicle….NOT TRUCK, but overall vehicle for the last gazillion years. It’s not like there’s not a concrete core of buyers. People are realizing that there is something fundamentally wrong with the Lightning!! Unfortunately the Silverado EV is going to be a huge disappointment for GM. Waste of design $ when they could have created a killer Camaro.
Hey Chris,
Ford light duty pickup trucks are outsold by GM light duty pickup trucks but GM sells them as Silverados and Sierras so that F150s slightly outsell Silverados. Add in the mechanically the same Sierras and GM sells more. Besides that, the pickups are immensely more profitable than the cars (including Camaros) so if they sell only half as many pickups as Camaros they still make more money. Of course, that won’t happen.. The pickups will outselll two door coupes every time. Personally I prefer Camaros, but since I own GM stock I hope they keep developing and selling pickups rather than Camaros. People who buy and use their pickups as hauling and towing machines will quickly figure out that ICE not BEV is better for such purposes, but most pickup buyers aren’t hauling or towing most of the time. An electric pickup will likely find a market. I recently bought a Lyriq. It can reach its advertised range in city driving and if the outside temperature is above 45 degrees and with the price of gas heading up again, it seems like electric is the way to go. It costs less to operate, GLH (as Carroll Shelby used to say- at least in a straight line) and it has almost a magic carpet ride quality which is hard to beat. Yesterday I took my daughter on a 150 mile round trip to a mall she wanted to shop at. We were headed down the interstate with the AKG sound system pumping out great quality sound and we were air drumming to the music on our thighs as the adaptive cruise was set to 70 and Super Cruise was engaged. Nice afternoon trip. I love my ICE Porsche, but for some kinds of travel a battery electric can’t be beat.