Chevrolet’s Silverado EV Work Truck base mannequin delivers extra miles of electrical vary than every other EV available on the market as we speak, however it wants a very large battery to take action. In a latest vary check, Edmunds was in a position to extract a full 539 miles of driving from the electrical pickup. Normal Motors tends to under-rate the vary of its electrical pickups, and this one managed to drive 47 miles past its EPA-rated 492 mile vary.
Beating the EPA score is one factor, however besting it by nearly 10% is unimaginable. Even higher, the Silverado EV WT delivers extra miles of vary than anything Edmunds has run on that very same testing loop, with the following closest being Lucid Air Dream Vary Version at 505 miles.
The Silverado EV is way from probably the most environment friendly car out there, nonetheless, because it took a whopping 205 kWh battery pack to attain that lengthy vary. The Silverado EV WT makes use of the identical giant pack because the Silverado EV RST and Sierra EV Denali, however delivers far more vary than both of them. For one factor the WT is way lighter than its luxurious siblings, doing with out choices just like the folding mid-gate. For an additional, it makes do with 18-inch wheels as a substitute of the 24″ stockers on the RST. The Edmunds check of the truck noticed it devour electrical energy at a price of 45.3 kWh for each 100 miles pushed.
Balancing effectivity and battery dimension
The Silverado EV WT is extra environment friendly than a Rivian R1T or Ford F-150 Lightning, however with a battery pack greater than twice the dimensions of a base Lightning, it nonetheless consumes an entire lot of power to get anyplace. To place it in some perspective, it takes nearly 40 hours to cost the Silverado EV WT on a typical stage two house charger. This truck would get trounced in a contest of effectivity by possibly each non-pickup electrical car, because of its large 8,466 pound weight and gargantuan dimension, however the truck is clearly aerodynamic and simply environment friendly sufficient to ship some spectacular vary numbers.
Given the truck’s big wheel openings, not very aerodynamic wheels, and open mattress, I can not assist however surprise if this truck may add fairly a bit extra vary with only a few normal hypermiling aero methods, like a tonneau cowl. Hell, 600 miles is likely to be inside attain.
