Basic Motors’ household of full-electric pickup vans has a brand new member with Thursday afternoon’s announcement of the brand new 2024 GMC Sierra EV. The brand new Sierra EV joins the present GMC Hummer EV and upcoming Chevrolet Silverado EV fashions and is predicted to hit the street subsequent 12 months beginning with the well-appointed and premium-priced Denali Version 1.
As is the case with the combustion-powered Sierra and Chevrolet Silverado 1500, the Sierra EV shares its physique with the battery-electric Silverado EV and, so, boasts a largely an identical silhouette and flanks. The Sierra EV shall be initially provided solely in Crew Cab configuration with a 5-foot-11 mattress, and the Denali Version 1 shall be commonplace with GM’s MultiPro tailgate and that includes the brand new MultiPro midgate. Fold down the 60/40-split midgate wall between the mattress and the cabin to liberate 9 ft of open-air cargo size; drop the MultiPro tailgate’s load-stop to accommodate objects as much as 11 ft lengthy.
The Sierra stands other than its fraternal twin with a novel entrance fascia and tail lamp design. Up entrance, the newcomer drops the Silverado’s full-width gentle bar in favor of extra typical, inverted L-shaped gentle signatures that body the Sierra’s face, disappearing behind the pronounced entrance bumper. Heart stage is commanded by a chrome-surrounded panel the place the grille ought to be, highlighted by an illuminated, black GMC emblem. That panel hides the large maw of the Sierra’s entrance trunk, a pleasant bonus cargo space much like the Silverado EV and Ford’s F-150 Lightning.
2024 GMC Sierra EV: Ultium-Powered Electrical Pickup Debuts Contemporary Face
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Round again, the Sierra EV’s LED ribbon tail lights have an easier form than these of the Silverado’s and echo the form of the Sierra’s entrance lights.
Trying beneath the acquainted exterior, it is no shock that the Sierra EV is powered by the identical Ultium electrical platform and powertrain because the Silverado EV. Nevertheless, the Sierra Denali Version 1 boasts a bit extra energy. GMC estimates 754 horsepower and 785 pound-feet of torque within the dual-motor pickup’s Max Energy mode. That is 94 ponies and 5 lb-ft greater than the Silverado EV RST in its “WOW” max output mode. (The 1,000-hp 3-motor GMC Hummer EV remains to be the king of the Ultium hill.)
The electrical GMC is claimed to speed up from 0-60 mph in beneath 4.5 seconds. With its commonplace trailering package deal, the Sierra Denali Version 1 will boast a 9,500-pound towing capability — curiously, 500 kilos wanting the Silverado RST’s ranking. Max payload is unchanged at 1,300 el bees.
Battery capability hasn’t been introduced, however once more that is probably the identical pack because the Silverado EV. Anticipate round 400-miles per cost beneath optimum circumstances. Plug right into a DC quick charging port that may saturate the Sierra EV’s 350-kilowatt charging functionality to rapidly add round 100 miles in a 10-minute session. Just like the Silverado, the Sierra Denali Version 1 may even characteristic a ten.2-kW Energy Station Professional inverter system with 10 onboard AC shops able to energizing work websites, campsites and even different electrical automobiles. Related to a bidirectional house charger, the Sierra EV may even energy your home, with sufficient power capability to energy primary requirements for as much as 21 days in an emergency.
The electrical pickup sits on an Air Experience adaptive suspension that may increase or decrease the experience top as much as 2 inches for off-road or freeway circumstances. The Denali Version 1 may even come commonplace with four-wheel steering and can have the ability to pull off the Hummer EV’s cool CrabWalk lateral steering — a characteristic lacking from the Silverado EV’s spec sheet.
Inside, the Sierra EV Denali Version 1 options extra premium supplies, together with open-pore wooden and aluminum trim, etched stainless-steel Bose speaker grilles and quilted seats embroidered with Denali logos, all of which lives beneath an enormous, fastened panoramic glass roof.
The largest shock is the distinctive dashboard. There’s nonetheless an ordinary 11-inch digital instrument cluster, however the central 16.8-inch touchscreen has been rotated to a portrait orientation. Customers will have the ability to customise its “freeform” interface, shifting icons round as they see match and split-screen stacking as much as three apps concurrently.
Driver help tech is — you guessed it — nigh-identical to the Silverado’s, highlighted by the Denali Version 1’s commonplace Tremendous Cruise hands-free freeway steering help, which might mechanically change lanes and be used whereas towing.
The 2024 GMC Sierra EV shall be constructed at GM’s Manufacturing facility Zero Detroit-Hamtramck plant in Michigan alongside the GMC Hummer pickup and SUV and, after all, the Chevrolet Silverado EV’s RST and WT fashions. Reservations for the $108,695 Denali Version 1 (together with the $1,695 vacation spot cost) are open now with the primary examples anticipated to achieve consumers someday subsequent 12 months.
Like its stablemates, the top-spec Sierra EV launches first earlier than increasing the lineup to incorporate decrease, extra inexpensive trim ranges — together with upcoming Sierra EV AT4 and Elevation grades anticipated to debut for the 2025 mannequin 12 months. When the complete line of Sierra EV fashions is full, the automaker expects to get the beginning value to round $50,000, however which may be a number of years down the road.