The Chevrolet truck EV RST is in the year 2024.
The electric Chevrolet Silverado will be built for commercial customers and a fully loaded luxury model will retail for more than $100,000 when it is launched next year.
The first WT, or Work Truck, will be offered to fleet buyers in the spring of 2023, followed by a fully loaded $105,000 RST limited first edition model for consumers in the fall. The work truck will cost $39,900.
The Chevrolet Silverado EV will offer a revolutionary mix of capability, performance, safety, flexibility and design that catapults this electric truck for both fleet and retail customers into a category of its own according to GM CEO Mary Barra.
Both segments are crucial to GM's plans to ramp up sales and remain profitable.
The Chevrolet truck EV RST is in the year 2024.
All of the volume and share and profitability will be retained by the trucks as we wind the calendar forward, GM North America President Steve Carlisle told CNBC. The goal is to grow the company as we go through this transition; not to keep it flat or shrink it, so trucks need to play an outsized role in all of that.
The Chevrolet Silverado EV RST has an estimated 0-6 mph time of less than 4.5 seconds and up to It will have hands-free highway driving, four-wheel steering, and 24-inch wheels.
The initial versions of the EV will have a full range of more than 400 miles and can be charged in 10 minutes with a DC fast charging station.
The base model of the Ford F-150 Lightning pickup is expected to arrive in the spring of this year and will be priced at $39,970.
The Chevrolet truck EV RST is in the year 2024.
The top-end price of the F-150 is more than that of the Silverado EV. Additional features and Ford's manufacturing platform are likely to be the reasons for the pricing difference. The traditional version of the pickup that Ford sells hundreds of thousands of times a year has the same components as the electric F-150.
The electric Chevrolet is on a new platform shared with the recently launched Hummer EV pickup.
Hummer is a big step, but Silverado is a step into the mainstream trucks.
Rivian automotive's fully loaded R1T, a smaller electric pickup that can top $100,000, is slightly more expensive than the $105,000 launch edition of the Silverado EV RST.
Steve Majoros, Chevrolet vice president of marketing, said that there will be other versions of the Silverado EV after the initial launch in 2023. The production, timing and volumes of the Chevrolet Silverado EV are still being determined by GM.
During her remarks at the Consumer Electronics Show, she showed off an off-road version of the electric pickup. She confirmed the EV versions of the Chevrolet Equinox and Chevrolet Blazer. She said the electric Equinox will start at $30,000.
GM has promised investors that it will be profitable by the year 2035.
That is the goal that guides all this, according to Carlisle.
The role of fleet sales is important for EV's because of emerging data analytics and logistical tools that are looking for opportunities for recurring revenue with fleet customers.
The importance of luxury pickup trucks has led to record prices and profits for GM and Ford. For the last eight years, GM has led pickup truck sales in the U.S.
It is a big deal in the industry and it is a franchise for us today. We are not intending to give up any ground as this unfolds.
The GMC Hummer EV is more similar to the 2024 Silverado EV than it is to the traditional Chevrolet pickup.
The Ultium EV platform and batteries are found in both pickup trucks. New technologies and notable performance metrics are included as well as large screens on the interior of the vehicles and sleek new exterior designs with different light bars.
The midgate is a unique feature on the Chevrolet Avalanche, a pickup that was popular for more than a decade. The rear glass can be taken out and stored in the seats if the vehicle's rear seats fold down. The bed of the vehicle has been increased from 5 feet and 11 inches to nearly 11 feet.
The design director for the Chevrolet Silverado EV said that they had a lot of satisfied customers. This isn't the new Avalanche.
Chevrolet officials promise that the new look of the truck will deliver what traditional buyers of the truck have come to expect.
Majoros said that it was called Silverado for a reason. It is a powerful brand.
The work truck version of the Chevrolet EV will have 510 horsepower and 615-pound feet of Torque. The EV version of the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 will initially have lower towing and payload ratings than other models.
Customers can reserve the $105,000 Silverado EV RST at Chevrolet's website at 1 p.m. Wednesday. The WT pickup will go to people who are in the fleet.
