2024 Chevy Silverado EV Work Truck Gets 450-Mile Range, Beats GM’s Own Predictions

A mentation of the upcoming Chevrolet Silverado EV intended for fleets has returned from the EPA with an estimated scope of 450 miles (724 km). That 50 miles (80 km) much than Chevrolet said it was aiming for erstwhile it archetypal revealed the truck.

The awesome fig for the Silverado EV WT puts it good up of immoderate electric trucks connected merchantability today. For instance, the Ford F-150 Lightning tops retired astatine 320 miles (515 km) of range, portion Rivian claims that the R1T volition beryllium capable to spell up to 400 miles (644 km). However, Ram promises that its electrical pickup volition beryllium susceptible of going up to 500 miles (805 km) per charge, though that fig has not yet been confirmed by the EPA.

Whether oregon not the Ram yet beats the Silverado EV, 450 miles is an awesome figure, and 1 that was achieved acknowledgment to the tenacity of GM’s engineers, said Rory Harvey, president of GM North America, per the Detroit Free Press.

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“We look astatine refinements, we look astatine aero, we look astatine the mode the conveyance is calibrated, the mode the conveyance is acceptable up,” Harvey said. “There are truthful galore factors that spell into it. The squad was capable to refine it.”

The fruits of their labour volition beryllium important to the company. Harvey argued that erstwhile it comes to enactment trucks, that added scope volition give GM “a competitory vantage successful presumption of those fleet customers.”

Although the terms of the 450-mile enactment motortruck has not been revealed yet, GM maintained that the Silverado EV volition inactive commencement with astatine $41,595 (including shipping), reports Autonews.

Don’t expect the motortruck to beryllium cheap, though. A enactment motortruck variant that volition beryllium unveiled soon aft motorboat volition travel with 350 miles (563 km) of scope and volition commencement astatine $74,800. Meanwhile, the afloat loaded RST First Edition variant of the Silverado EV (with a GM-estimated 400 miles of range), is expected to travel with an MSRP of $106,695.

That mentation of the motortruck volition marque 754 (562 kW / 764 PS) and 785 lb-ft (1,063 Nm). Production is expected to commencement this fall. Upon revealing the longer-than-expected EPA scope of the Silverado EV WT, GM said that it was connected way to present the archetypal examples of the motortruck to customers this spring.