Chevrolet has announced the 2025 Silverado EV pickup truck and stated that customers in 2024 stated the following two barriers to purchasing an EV Pickup, Range and Price.

For the 2025 model year, Chevrolet has introduced the LT trim, a more affordable package to the launch edition RST package and is expanding the WT offerings.

Let's kick it off with keeping to the bullet points of what is in the Silverado EV LT pickup truck:

• 300 kW DC public fast charging
• Standard 18-inch aluminum wheels, with accessory 22-inch wheels available later in the model year
• Unique lower front fascia and uplevel exterior lighting, including illuminated front gold bowtie
• Standard 17.7-inch-diagonal center infotainment screen paired with 11 inch-diagonal driver informational center
• 12,500 lb towing5 capacity and 1,800 lb payload
• Up to 765 lb-ft torque and 645 horsepower7 with Wide Open Watts mode
• Available in six exterior colors, including trim-exclusive Blue Smoke Metallic
• Standard Multi-Flex Tailgate
• 408 miles of range1 on a full charge

A Premium Package is available later in the model year and adds the following features:

• Available Multi-Flex Midgate, which offers up to 10 feet and 10 inches of load floor when paired with the standard Multi-Flex Tailgate
• Available Super Cruise8, the only hands-free advanced driver assistance system to offer hands-free trailering, will be active on about 750,000 miles of roads in the U.S. and Canada by the end of 2025
• 22-inch machined-face aluminum wheels
• 390 miles of range1 on a full charge

The Work Truck or WT trim offers the following:

• With 492 miles of range1 available on the Max Range Silverado EV Work Truck, the range leader in electric trucks can now go even further.
• The Work Truck continues to be available to commercial customers and will launch with a starting MSRP of $69,4952 for the extended range battery pack, offering 422 miles of range1.
• More choices will be available for Work Truck – including a new Slate Gray exterior color.

For the 2025 RST Silverado EV trim:

The Silverado EV RST will be available with two different battery pack options and offers a max range of 460 miles.

The 2025 Silverado EV RST also includes Sidewinder as standard equipment. Sidewinder, one of Silverado EV RST’s standard four-wheel steering modes, allows all four wheels to turn in the same direction and move the truck diagonally at speeds up to 20 mph. The feature, selectable from the infotainment screen, gives drivers a new way to conquer everything from rugged terrain to tight parking spaces.

The RST is available in six exterior colors, including trim-exclusive Zephyr Blue Matte Metallic.

A quick breakdown of the horsepower and torque by trim line:

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It's not the best looking truck but, damn, that range is fantastic. I do love the overall package of this, outside of the lack of CarPlay. 

What they are missing, is standard range LT that is like $62,500 ($55k after tax credit).  I imagine that will come, and they are pushing higher end trims until they can make more batteries.  But once you get the price down, I think sales take off.  As much as people pay crazy money for pick up trucks, you can't survive on the $80-90k stuff.

I actually like the look but at near 9,000 lbs., holy smokes! Instant pot hole maker lol..

On 11/22/2024 at 12:36 PM, surreal1272 said:

I actually like the look but at near 9,000 lbs., holy smokes! Instant pot hole maker lol..

Yeah, what an obese pig..they need to reduce the weight by 50% or so.. 

7 hours ago, Robert Hall said:

Yeah, what an obese pig..they need to reduce the weight by 50% or so.. 

50%? Not a chance when the lightest GAS powered crew cab Silverado is 4700 lbs and they mostly tip out at near 3 tons. This would do good to get down to 7,000 lbs but even that won't happen with the current EV platform. The bigger weight problem is all that battery underneath.

1 hour ago, surreal1272 said:

50%? Not a chance when the lightest GAS powered crew cab Silverado is 4700 lbs and they mostly tip out at near 3 tons. This would do good to get down to 7,000 lbs but even that won't happen with the current EV platform. The bigger weight problem is all that battery underneath.

All that $h! is too heavy..

8 hours ago, Robert Hall said:

Yeah, what an obese pig..they need to reduce the weight by 50% or so.. 

50% is unrealistic. A regular half ton truck is well north of 4500lbs already. 

18 hours ago, ccap41 said:

50% is unrealistic. A regular half ton truck is well north of 4500lbs already. 

Yeah, all too heavy.   It's kind of absurd that they are so hefty, ICE or EV versions...

Edited December 11, 20241 yr by Robert Hall

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The 2024 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 has the following weight specifications:

• Curb weight: 5,080 lbs.
• Maximum towing capacity: 13,200 lbs.
• Maximum payload: 1,990 lbs¹.
• Gross weight: 7,000 lbs

Per GM authority 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV Specifications

• Curb weight: 8,350 to 9,100 depending on model
• Maximum Towing capacity: 10,000 to 12,000 lbs depending on model
• Maximum payload: 1,500 to 1,700 lbs depending on model
• Gross weight: NO DATA SUPPLIED at this time via Chevrolet site or any other site I could find.

Solid state is showing that the size of the battery pack will be reduced by half, but it will never get down to the weight of an ICE truck in the next few years IMHO.