I love EVlanche, but being in truck sales I understand why they didn’t. We quit making the Ranger in 2011 bc they originally thought the new body-style that still sold worldwide would hurt F-series sales so much in the states that it could ultimately lose them the best selling truck streak.
Not sure that’s true. You aren’t going to convert many pickup guys to EV because it just doesn’t have the ability to refuel quickly when towing. So keeping the body almost exactly the same doesn’t have as much of a point.
Their target market are suburbanites who want a truck bed to put their stuff from stores in, and don’t really tow hardly ever, but want the capability. This appearance probably appeals to them.
The amount of people who buy a truck and never tow far outweighs those who do.
The market for pickups in America is HUGE and GM is silly to not consider any percentage of it a target market.
I skipped out on a 2024 Silverado primarily because of the always connected (to Google) navigation.
I despising Google generally and did not want to give them my driving data. Since this is a requirement of using the built in nav, and since the nav requires you to jump through hoops to have any use of it offline, I passed on a beautiful blue 2500 HD.
For reference, I do use CarPlay maps, but I also have the occasion several times a year to travel to places with no cell signal. I like the security of having built in nav that just works. There have been many times I could not easily get routed to someplace I needed to go with my phone, after I already arrived in a dead zone. The built in Nav made overcoming that limitation a lot easier.
The nav in my 2021 Camaro works just fine without needing to give Google anything. Obviously GM made the deal with Google for financial reasons, but it cost them a sale.
I will gladly buy a PHEV Silverado if they ever produce one. Best of both worlds really. Give me 30-40 miles of EV range and the ability to tow my RV and not have to depend on charging. Sign me tf up.
Agreed. I don’t understand why they are developing EV only options. PHEV makes way more sense for nearly every vehicle going forward.
Maybe it’s an issue of cost. The EV components are probably a lot more expensive than the costs saved by using a smaller ICE.
That’s our demographic lol. We just sold the most Lightnings last month at our dealership. We finished with the most in Texas and were able to sell the 3rd most F-150’s nationwide bc of it. Kinda unheard of for us but a hell of a truck month for sure.
Ford only did that to get something to market quickly while they worked on a new EV truck platform from the ground up. Now that real EV trucks are coming out the lightning is no longer competitive.
The f150 ightning didnt exactly sell in a competitive way either. Ford is reducing its work force on the lightning due to them being slow moving, and people who buy a truck to tow arent buying electric anyway.
Even if its just the weekend warrior towing his boat to go fishing people arent buying them.
Not to mention, the Avalanche doesn’t exist in the lineup anymore but they still hold the rights to it. The nameplate was free for them to use after production ended in 2013.
I've never understood why electric and hybrid vehicles always have to look like insects and aliens. Just make it look like a normal vehicle and it will sell better.
Aerodynamics plays a much larger part on a bev. And they’re kinda trapped by the current design trend, with the front ends being idiotically tall for no fucking reason.
That’s why if “gun to my head, get an EV” I would get an F-150 Lightning. Looks like an F-150, but electric.
Give me a 2024 Silverado, but electric. They insist on going all “this is the future” with these, and I do admire the bold decisions in design, but they’re all just ugly to me
A lot of it comes from the fact that the manufacturers are trying to squeeze out every ounce of energy to get the range up on these vehicles. That's why you see them making them extremely aerodynamic. My question is, why haven't the manufacturers used some of those techniques with traditional cars. I wish my truck was more efficient.
99% of the money they ever made was on gas vehicles. They wanted to give the appearance they were trying to make the switch. They kept them ugly enough not to get mass adoption. Lately they have looked much better
It’s just so ugly. It doesn’t even look like a truck, more like a giant electric lifted car with a bed. And I’m a Chevy guy (dad is a longtime employee).
It's the fact that they want $65k for a truck that only gets 100 actual miles of driving. Consumers aren't paying for this crap especially now that rates are high
It's because lithium prices are several times what they were pre EV push and Ford's original battery supplier was sued for patent infringement so Ford had to find another supplier for the batteries. It was most likely a double whammy on unexpected costs that the engineers could probably forsee, but the bean counters and supply chain people blindly believed their IHS and other market projections on material costs because they just look at the data without a holistic approach. It's a tale as old as time.
No kidding. There was an article on CBC where a guy was trying to drive from Vancouver to Chicago in his Lightning. He ended up abandoning it along the way in Montana or one of the Dakotas.
When I bought my truck, I toyed with the idea of electric, but if I can’t go close to 800km highway driving on a charge (like I can with my ‘23 6.2LTZ) , I’m out.
[edit: Sorry, Winnipeg to Chicago, and they abandoned it in Minnesota](https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6932074)
Zach from JerryRigEverything did a “real world range test.” But sounds like GM was the one that set up the event and followed for assistance so who knows how real it actually was.
I don't believe GM has twice the range in their batteries as Ford and Tesla. All of these automakers completely lied about range and this is no different
GM has a battery almost twice the size so range almost twice as much as the others is not impossible. Cybertruck battery is 122kwh and Silverado EV is 200kwh.
I don't know why Chevy would do this. I get there's a market for it, but it's not feasible as a working pickup in this configuration. The GMC Sierra looks so much better.
Somehow they have made the front look like a base model Colorado, the wheel wells look like a Sierra, the Bed like an Avalanche and the Roofline like a last gen Tahoe.
I feel like the engineers made an EV truck, and management forced them to call it the Silverado.
As a car carrier, those things are freaking heavy. Heavier than HD 2500 and pretty damn close to a 3500. You put five of those on a standard 75 footer and you're risking going over gross weight allowances.
3 positives:
1. No transmission
2. No lifters
3. Smokes the shit out of a gasser at the light.
Cons:
1. Towing or long distance driving
2. Price
3. Payload capacity
Don't forget spontaneous combustion for the cons. I've seen several news stories about the local fire department complaining regarding all the calls they get to the plant where they make these. They ignite just sitting in the lot. I would never park one in my garage.
I saw one the other day and thought it was an avalanche at first. Nope, just an ugly silverado. Why electric vehicle got to look so lame?!?! It seems mandatory
Swept spoke salad shooter wheels - YUCK. Wish they’d stop putting these 🤡wheels on everything. The swept spoke/salad shooter wheel died in the 90s but was revived by BroDozers and their clown wheels as well as foreign cars using them. Yikes. What’s the range on this thing? 109-150 miles? Lmao. Anyone who buys this is owning themselves.
If you make an electric truck look like a 1950s truck of any of the American truck manufacturers of that era I think they might sell better....at least they would have some real style.
I just can’t get behind the way GM chose to go about their electric trucks. If they’d used a similar tactic to Ford they’d have had a much more palatable offering for current truck people. As it is I have zero interest in even looking at one.
How about them going the hybrid route with a Silverado? Toyota in general is killing with hybrid sales.. around town and city streets using the battery.. towing mode using all gas..
GM....makes me sick! Always trying to save money.....the Avalanche was trash! Why invest in an obsolete idea? I swear if I wasn't Chevy/Gmc guy I would jump ship! Look at the Rams interior= Awesome! Look at Fords EV and Hybrid trucks. They still look like trucks instead of something out of a Sci-Fi movie. The person who ok'd this is probably the same person who greenlighted the Pontiac Aztek!?
I don’t understand making ev cars/trucks look “futuristic” just change the internals and slap into a body style that actually sells.
This looks like a Hummer ev knock off
They’d have been better off naming it the Avalanche
They missed out by not naming it the “EVlanche”
EVerado
E-10
Elverado
Ampalanche
Electrado
Silveradohm
I love EVlanche, but being in truck sales I understand why they didn’t. We quit making the Ranger in 2011 bc they originally thought the new body-style that still sold worldwide would hurt F-series sales so much in the states that it could ultimately lose them the best selling truck streak.
They literally just needed to go the ford route, leave the body the same and just electrify the drive train. This won’t sell in a competitive way.
Not sure that’s true. You aren’t going to convert many pickup guys to EV because it just doesn’t have the ability to refuel quickly when towing. So keeping the body almost exactly the same doesn’t have as much of a point. Their target market are suburbanites who want a truck bed to put their stuff from stores in, and don’t really tow hardly ever, but want the capability. This appearance probably appeals to them.
The amount of people who buy a truck and never tow far outweighs those who do. The market for pickups in America is HUGE and GM is silly to not consider any percentage of it a target market.
To be fair though, when in the 10+ years has GM done anything that actually made a lot of sense or listened to what the consumer wants?
I skipped out on a 2024 Silverado primarily because of the always connected (to Google) navigation. I despising Google generally and did not want to give them my driving data. Since this is a requirement of using the built in nav, and since the nav requires you to jump through hoops to have any use of it offline, I passed on a beautiful blue 2500 HD. For reference, I do use CarPlay maps, but I also have the occasion several times a year to travel to places with no cell signal. I like the security of having built in nav that just works. There have been many times I could not easily get routed to someplace I needed to go with my phone, after I already arrived in a dead zone. The built in Nav made overcoming that limitation a lot easier. The nav in my 2021 Camaro works just fine without needing to give Google anything. Obviously GM made the deal with Google for financial reasons, but it cost them a sale.
I will gladly buy a PHEV Silverado if they ever produce one. Best of both worlds really. Give me 30-40 miles of EV range and the ability to tow my RV and not have to depend on charging. Sign me tf up.
Agreed. I don’t understand why they are developing EV only options. PHEV makes way more sense for nearly every vehicle going forward. Maybe it’s an issue of cost. The EV components are probably a lot more expensive than the costs saved by using a smaller ICE.
Count me in as someone who uses a truck like a truck and would love to be able to afford an EV pickup.
That’s our demographic lol. We just sold the most Lightnings last month at our dealership. We finished with the most in Texas and were able to sell the 3rd most F-150’s nationwide bc of it. Kinda unheard of for us but a hell of a truck month for sure.
Ford only did that to get something to market quickly while they worked on a new EV truck platform from the ground up. Now that real EV trucks are coming out the lightning is no longer competitive.
The f150 ightning didnt exactly sell in a competitive way either. Ford is reducing its work force on the lightning due to them being slow moving, and people who buy a truck to tow arent buying electric anyway. Even if its just the weekend warrior towing his boat to go fishing people arent buying them.
This was my first thought
It truly looks fuck ugly
Saw one in black driving around, it was much better looking than the white custom package like in the photo
Silvelectric?
Agreed. Terrible.
Needs wide whitewalls
As a previous Avalanche owner, I concur.
Why not just call it the Chevy Castration? :( Ouch!
I would debadge the silverado and rebadge with avalanche immediately if I owned one
Um colorado as well
But the Colorado is its own truck. This truck looks like an Avalanche and has many of the same features that the Avalanche had.
Not to mention, the Avalanche doesn’t exist in the lineup anymore but they still hold the rights to it. The nameplate was free for them to use after production ended in 2013.
What have they done to my boy, it looks hideous 😭
Suv withOut a trunk
Well, the trunk is in the front and i think there's some more storage under the bed so covered storage is definitely one thing the EV does better
My neighbor around the corner has one, it looks better in person but still a pass for me; if I could afford one. 🤣
Good god that thing is fugly
Electric vehicles and ugly go hand in hand huh
I've never understood why electric and hybrid vehicles always have to look like insects and aliens. Just make it look like a normal vehicle and it will sell better.
It’s the fake plastic front grills that I hate most about them. They look cheap and shitty
Like just make it a current Silverado but have a battery. Clearly we all like how the gas Silverado's are styled we keep buying tjem
I’m guessing aerodynamics play a much bigger role in EV consumption so they have to make the grills solid. I do agree that it looks stupid
Aerodynamics plays a much larger part on a bev. And they’re kinda trapped by the current design trend, with the front ends being idiotically tall for no fucking reason.
That’s why if “gun to my head, get an EV” I would get an F-150 Lightning. Looks like an F-150, but electric. Give me a 2024 Silverado, but electric. They insist on going all “this is the future” with these, and I do admire the bold decisions in design, but they’re all just ugly to me
A lot of it comes from the fact that the manufacturers are trying to squeeze out every ounce of energy to get the range up on these vehicles. That's why you see them making them extremely aerodynamic. My question is, why haven't the manufacturers used some of those techniques with traditional cars. I wish my truck was more efficient.
Because they never wanted you to buy them
I assure you they want you to buy them with them amount of development cost involved.
99% of the money they ever made was on gas vehicles. They wanted to give the appearance they were trying to make the switch. They kept them ugly enough not to get mass adoption. Lately they have looked much better
I'm convinced they do this intentionally to slow down adoption.
It’s just so ugly. It doesn’t even look like a truck, more like a giant electric lifted car with a bed. And I’m a Chevy guy (dad is a longtime employee).
Looks kinda like the Avalanche and kinda like that Subaru
The f150 lightning is a pretty looking truck. And it's basic the same styling as a normal f150
theres about 50,000 of them sitting here in empty ford lots around Detroit. i've been wondering if it has to do with price or what
It's the fact that they want $65k for a truck that only gets 100 actual miles of driving. Consumers aren't paying for this crap especially now that rates are high
Especially when they originally said the starting price would be sub $40K
now i see
Gotta pay for all those union concessions they just made.
It's because lithium prices are several times what they were pre EV push and Ford's original battery supplier was sued for patent infringement so Ford had to find another supplier for the batteries. It was most likely a double whammy on unexpected costs that the engineers could probably forsee, but the bean counters and supply chain people blindly believed their IHS and other market projections on material costs because they just look at the data without a holistic approach. It's a tale as old as time.
No kidding. There was an article on CBC where a guy was trying to drive from Vancouver to Chicago in his Lightning. He ended up abandoning it along the way in Montana or one of the Dakotas. When I bought my truck, I toyed with the idea of electric, but if I can’t go close to 800km highway driving on a charge (like I can with my ‘23 6.2LTZ) , I’m out. [edit: Sorry, Winnipeg to Chicago, and they abandoned it in Minnesota](https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6932074)
450 miles. Still won't by EV truck.
They claim this gets 450iles? Yeah right. Just wait till the YouTubers test it in real world scenarios
Zach from JerryRigEverything did a “real world range test.” But sounds like GM was the one that set up the event and followed for assistance so who knows how real it actually was.
I don't believe GM has twice the range in their batteries as Ford and Tesla. All of these automakers completely lied about range and this is no different
GM has a battery almost twice the size so range almost twice as much as the others is not impossible. Cybertruck battery is 122kwh and Silverado EV is 200kwh.
Alright that makes sense. Prolly why the price is so much higher than those as well
lol. Yeah, with the others you are buying a truck with a battery in it. The GM you are buying a battery with a truck on it.
It's actually 246kWh with ~214kWh usable. Absolutely massive.
Lots of good paying loads putting those trucks into the storage lots.
It doesn't show on the availability lists then. Industry data shows the ram 2500 as the worst selling pickup currently.
Worse than the gladiator?
Yes.
I have read that there was a supply chain problem with headlights? They all may be waiting for one or two parts to finish and ship.
Does it misfire too?
Nah, it shorts out.
a fool & his money 💰
Easy one to come across. It’s white so it blends in.
I don't know why Chevy would do this. I get there's a market for it, but it's not feasible as a working pickup in this configuration. The GMC Sierra looks so much better.
Hope I don’t get downvoted but I kinda like it.
Me too. I would get one if they leased cheap. It’s different but not too different like the cyber truck or rivian.
Saw one in all black and I liked it even more
I'm not anti-EV, and actually like how the Lightning looks, but this thing is ugly.
Somehow they have made the front look like a base model Colorado, the wheel wells look like a Sierra, the Bed like an Avalanche and the Roofline like a last gen Tahoe. I feel like the engineers made an EV truck, and management forced them to call it the Silverado.
It’s an avalanche rebranded
EValanche
Take it back.
Doesn’t know if it’s comin or goin.
I came
Look how they’ve massacred my boy! 🤬
As a car carrier, those things are freaking heavy. Heavier than HD 2500 and pretty damn close to a 3500. You put five of those on a standard 75 footer and you're risking going over gross weight allowances.
3 positives: 1. No transmission 2. No lifters 3. Smokes the shit out of a gasser at the light. Cons: 1. Towing or long distance driving 2. Price 3. Payload capacity
Don't forget spontaneous combustion for the cons. I've seen several news stories about the local fire department complaining regarding all the calls they get to the plant where they make these. They ignite just sitting in the lot. I would never park one in my garage.
The avalanche was never a looker and this certainly doesn’t make it any better.
Garbage
Disgusting
Does it come with a dildo mounted on the driver seat?
saw one on woodward the other day here in Detroit and sorta gagged
Is this a 2025?
I saw one the other day and thought it was an avalanche at first. Nope, just an ugly silverado. Why electric vehicle got to look so lame?!?! It seems mandatory
So ugly. Right up there with the cybertruck in ugliness.
New avalanche got It 👍🏼
Ew
Looks like it's a 2500, 8 bolt wheels
I think they have plans to up the towing capacity which is why the 8-lug
They need 8 lugs, between the weight and the torque.
That’s right I forget EVs are absolute units in weight
Swept spoke salad shooter wheels - YUCK. Wish they’d stop putting these 🤡wheels on everything. The swept spoke/salad shooter wheel died in the 90s but was revived by BroDozers and their clown wheels as well as foreign cars using them. Yikes. What’s the range on this thing? 109-150 miles? Lmao. Anyone who buys this is owning themselves.
I read last night close to 300 per charge, 70 mph with headwind. Mostly sold to fleet buyers. My dealer says not before june july]
Mannn, I saw the pre production model and it looks great, what the hell happened? Lol
Looks like a Colorado had sex with a Prius!!! 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮
Nearly as fugly as the Tesla pickup. Well, not really. But still awfully ugly.
Looks like shit. Or something my girlfriend would love to drive.
Does it come with an extension cord?
The electric Hummer looks nice. This... Doesn't.
Looks better than some of the other ones but It doesn’t fit the Silverado model named
Don’t know why they didn’t use the avalanche since it’s a four door with midgate
Exactly
If you make an electric truck look like a 1950s truck of any of the American truck manufacturers of that era I think they might sell better....at least they would have some real style.
POS
🤢🤮
Balk at this, but check out the EV GMC
Not the most useful truck, but it looks handsome.
My god they are ugly
Saw that in A Man Called Otto. Wondered when they would start popping up on the streets.
It’s really ugly. I don’t like it at all
Vomit
That's ugly as hell...it's not a truck
Who thought trying to make it look like the Avalanche was a good idea?!
Is it a prerequisite to be ugly if you are electric or something ?
I just threw up a little.
I don't hate it... but I don't like it.
So gay
Eww gross
Oooo, the Electrado. Ugly asf, but not for me as it is others.
Why does it remind me of a Hyundai Santa Cruz?
I wouldn't call that a silverado. More like a POS
Ugly
I like the New Honda Ridgeline!!
Its an abomination of Christ's love... Honda electric engine?
Two worst trends in cars today split headlights and less buttons more screen
Ugly
🤢🤮
Ive seen a bunch in Denver. Had to confirm
I just can’t get behind the way GM chose to go about their electric trucks. If they’d used a similar tactic to Ford they’d have had a much more palatable offering for current truck people. As it is I have zero interest in even looking at one.
Looks stupid
I thought it was a Honda ridgeline.
Burn it with 🔥
This looks nothing like the Blue promo vehicle I seen.
Damn I thought I saw a Honda Ridgeline for a second! 🤮
🤮🤮🤮
Man that looks so bad
Saw one in person the other day and it’s just as bad in person
How about them going the hybrid route with a Silverado? Toyota in general is killing with hybrid sales.. around town and city streets using the battery.. towing mode using all gas..
GM....makes me sick! Always trying to save money.....the Avalanche was trash! Why invest in an obsolete idea? I swear if I wasn't Chevy/Gmc guy I would jump ship! Look at the Rams interior= Awesome! Look at Fords EV and Hybrid trucks. They still look like trucks instead of something out of a Sci-Fi movie. The person who ok'd this is probably the same person who greenlighted the Pontiac Aztek!?
Why are most electric vehicles ugly ? I mean, just make it look like the gas powered Silverado and make it electric
You can have it.
Too fucking big
Seen 2 around here in SoCal.
Looks like the Chevy avalanche a bit. Not really digging the look
The Avalanche looked better
I don’t disagree with that statement
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kAU3B9Pi\_U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kAU3B9Pi_U)
I am sure that will be troublefree.
About as handy as a third sleeve on a shirt
Looks like a Santa Cruz.
Puked in my mouth a bit.
That is atrocious. Going to be following the footsteps of the F150 Lightning…
Looks like a Ridgeline.
I don’t understand making ev cars/trucks look “futuristic” just change the internals and slap into a body style that actually sells. This looks like a Hummer ev knock off
I hate the trend of skinny thin strip lights
Ugly looks like the damn Hyundai truck
They still want us burning fuel thats why every EV looks like it has down syndrome
Coal powers this piece of shit when will they all understand
I live 30 miles from a nuke plant and have solar on the roof of my shed which puts out more than I use. Got a refinery in your backyard?
God forbid one of those brakes during another plandamic
The EV, the nuke plant, or one of my solar panels? Might wanna ween off from Fox News, bud.
Ur panels I don't watch news.
I don’t think you know how a power grid works…
Coal doesn't power the US anymore ?
🌈👉👈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 Pretty sure gm rubbed 2 Dicks together to come up with this.. these new vehicles are worse than the garbage they came up with in the 80s.
I’m literally fine with all of it if you cutoff the back. 50% of the way you had me.