2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV Review: Prices, Specs, and Photos

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The Chevrolet Silverado EV is the battery-electric companion to the Chevrolet Silverado 1500, which we cover separately.

The 2024 Silverado EV brings GM’s latest battery-electric technology to its full-size pickup truck family. It’s a close relative to the upcoming GMC Sierra EV as well as the GMC Hummer EV pickup; rivals include the Rivian R1T and Ford F-150 Lightning.

It’s energetic, useful, slick-looking—and expensive. We give the 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV an impressive initial rating of 8.2 out of 10 on the TCC scale—with the caveat that the WT versions we’ve driven can only be ordered as fleet vehicles. Civilian versions, including the RST due this fall, are even more expensive. (Read more abouthow we rate cars.)

It’s a brand-new vehicle that rides on GM’s latest Ultium battery-electric architecture—a family of vehicles that now spans from the five-seat Cadillac Lyriq crossover EV through the gargantuan GMC Hummer EV pickup.

The Silverado EV checks in as a near-equal on the style scale to its battery brethren. It’s a sleekly shaped vehicle, pickup truck or no. Thank goodness for clean sheets of paper. With its delightfully scaled-down front end, slim LED headlights, trim midsection, and sail panels, it’s an aero-friendly and eyeball-friendly shape with an interior that’s clutter-free and digitally enhanced, though it’s covered in reams of black plastic in the Work Truck versions we’ve driven.

The Silverado’s electric transformation comes courtesy of a battery pack shared with the Hummers and the upcoming GMC Sierra EV. With about 200 kwh, more or less, of power capacity, the dual-motor Silverado EV generates 510 hp in WT spec—or up to 785 hp when it’s fitted to the RST First Edition model due by the end of the year. Quick on its admittedly heavy feet—it checks in at about 8,500 pounds, which is still lighter than the Hummers—the Silverado can gun to 60 mph in under seven seconds, or in just 4.5 seconds in that RST First Edition spec. It’s not as quiet as most EVs we’ve driven, because as a work truck, it has almost none of the sound deadening included on passenger vehicles. Still, it’s quiet and fleet, and with its two motors, it’s all-wheel drive, all the time.

Ride and handling on the WT come courtesy of a strut and short-long-arm suspension and 18-inch wheels and tires. Commercial truck users are going to love this vehicle, as much for its firm steering and its composed ride, as for the cozy front seats slipped into each one.

The Silverado EV WT, you see, is as much a creature of comfort as utility. The switch to its dedicated EV platform means scads more space inside, whether it’s exceptional legroom front and back, or enough headroom to step into the cabin without removing a hat, or fitting three big passengers in the back seat. Storage abounds, in the black hole that is the center console, or under the back seats, where leaf blowers will live when the seats are flipped up, out of use. On coming versions, the Silverado EV gets a midgate that folds into the cabin, over the folded-down seatbacks, to swallow objects as long as 10 feet, 10 inches. Need to bring a couch home? The Silverado EV makes the old-fashioned regular-cab, 8-foot-bed pickup a thing of the past.

No crash-test data has been generated yet, but all Silverado EVs will come with automatic emergency braking, blind-spot monitors, automatic headlights, and active lane control. Surround-view camera systems with trailer views, a head-up display, and GM’s Super Cruise hands-free driver assistance will be available on most Silverado EV models, but not on the WT.

How much does the 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV cost?

The base Silverado EV 4WT costs $79,800, and has all-wheel drive, 450 miles of range, digital gauges, power features, a 5-foot-11 bed, and an 11.0-inch touchscreen with Google infotainment as well as Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. A coming 3WT edition with 350 miles of range will cost $74,800; the 400-mile RST version will cost $105,000. Initially the 4WT and 3WT will only sold to commercial customers; general customers will have to pay for the RST. Such is the cost of being first.

Chevy says future non-commercial Silverado EVs will come in a variety of trim levels, with prices from $50,000 and up, and with driving range at or above that of its rivals.