2024 Chevy Silverado EV | 2022 Chicago Auto Show

The 2024 Chevy Silverado EV is a completely unique truck compared to the internal combustion model, and actually shares its parts with the GMC Hummer EV. It will only be available in RST trim for regular customers for the first model year, as well as a fleet-only Work Truck trim. But additional trims and a second, smaller battery pack will be available for the 2025 model year. Both have a range of around 400 miles and dual electric motors. The Work Truck makes 510 horsepower, while the RST makes 664. Each truck is about the size of a normal Silverado, but feature lots of space with a front trunk, a bigger cabin, and a nearly 6-foot bed. That bed can be expanded with the available Midgate, a feature returning from the discontinued Chevy Avalanche. The RST model will launch with a price above $100,000, but the following year will introduce a base model for private customers starting around $40,000.

Video Transcript

JOEL STOCKDALE: So here at the Chicago Auto Show we are getting one of our first opportunities to walk around and check out the Silverado EV up close and to bring you guys along to check it out. It will be available in two versions to begin with and production will begin toward the end of next year. There will be a fleet only for now, work truck model and there will also be this RST version, which is a customer oriented one, it's loaded up with all kinds of features and stuff. And we'll talk a little bit more about pricing in a little bit but we want to start out with just taking you around the car and showing you some of the interesting details.

You'll obviously notice that it looks very different from your run-of-the-mill internal combustion engine, Chevy Silverado. It's a ground up design. It shares a lot of its componentry with the GMC Hummer EV. It's designed from the ground up as an electric vehicle. Doesn't have much of a grille up front. In fact, the cowl has been moved forward to add more passenger, space it's larger inside and the proportions as a result are very different. The cab is farther forward, it's got rear pillars that are much thicker and of course it's all uni body, it's not a separate body and bed from the frame. Another interesting fact about the exterior is that the nose is lower and more aerodynamic than the internal combustion Silverado.