{"id":13344,"date":"2021-12-12T00:59:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T05:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evglobe.com\/?p=13344"},"modified":"2021-12-12T00:59:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T05:59:48","slug":"2023-chevy-silverado-e-unmatched-gm-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evglobe.com\/2021\/12\/12\/2023-chevy-silverado-e-unmatched-gm-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 Chevy Silverado E will be unmatched, says GM CEO Mary Barra"},"content":{"rendered":"
Along with the purely electric GMC Sierra, the Chevy Silverado E<\/a> is set to enter production in early 2023 at the overhauled Factory Zero assembly plant located in Michigan. Speaking with CNBC<\/em> about the latter of the two zero-emissions pickup trucks, General Motors CEO Mary Barra described it as being “unmatched” in its segment. Earlier this year, she said it’s going to be a “stunning” truck<\/a>.<\/p>\n It’s an interesting comment seeing as how the vehicle will be quite late to the party, arriving after the Ford F-150 Lightning, Rivian R1T, and quite possibly after the Tesla Cybertruck<\/a> as well. Ahead of its of its official reveal in January 2022 at CES in Las Vegas, we are being told the Silverado E will “educate people on what you can do with an electric truck when you have an electric truck platform.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Reading between the lines, Barra’s comment was a subtle dig at Ford since its F-150 Lightning<\/a> is not riding on a bespoke EV architecture, but rather on an electric adaptation of the combustion-engined fullsize truck. In other words, GM claims the Silverado E won’t have the packaging constraints usually associated with vehicles that switch to electric power while using the bones of an ICE truck.<\/p>\n The statement was made by GM’s top brass while speaking at the Automotive Press Association meeting in Detroit, claiming the Silverado without a combustion engine<\/a> will make a “big difference” in the truck segment. It should be a similar story with the GMC Sierra sister model, with the two to be built alongside the GMC Hummer EV pickup and SUV.<\/p>\n