Hey @DallasEV welcome to the forum! Thanks for sharing these great photos! Did you see the truck today? What stood out the most to you seeing it in person?
Silverado EV is even more impressive in person!
Hey everyone, just wanted to share some pics of this amazing vehicle. Seeing it up close was the reason I reserved one. Hope GM knocks it out of the park next spring.
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Nah, I disagree. The general trend is the lower trims use two tone (with black rocker panels, bumpers, etc) since it's a cost-cutting measure. Less paint and single piece for all builds at that trim. If you want to spot a car that got cost cut, just look for a lot of black mold-in-color-plastic trim. The higher trim usually adds paint and chrome. Here's the latest lineup on the Silverado 1500.
The Silverado EV basically takes styling queues from the WT look (which IMO just looks terrible for a premium product)...
And the Silverado EV doesn't seem to have the High Country elements at all (no chrome, or body color matching)...
Just for reference here's the middle of the road Silverado 1500 which IMO still looks more premium than the Silverado EV just because it does away with the ugly black elements.
Notice how none of these designs have cheap black around the wheel arches. Cheap black all around is a lame way for designers to cut costs and try and create a vehicle that "appears more streamlined" since the black creates an optical void. The Ford Mach E is doing the same thing, and IMO suffers for it.
I think the Silverado EV should just embrace both its bulk and its premium status... there should be with more body panel matching and chrome on the higher trims vs just black like a WT.
Components, probably HVAC and battery climate. Charging infrastructure is at the back on this one because that’s where the charge port is, and the radiator is at the front. Looks like they probably didn’t go with the Bolt style cooling plate. The Bolt has no frunk as it’s filled with components. Sure EV’s have less to go wrong, but there’s still a lot of stuff in there.
However I wouldn’t at all be surprised that after the Lightning reveal they release with a Frunk that happens to be one inch larger than the F150, wanna place a bet on that?
I expect them trying to push other specs too so as to be just that much better. GM underestimates range already so I’m expecting 430 miles actual. Towing, hauling and bigger frunk will all be a bit bigger too I expect.With the charge port in the back, instead of the front as it is with my Bolt, I’ll have to install one of my spare EVSE’s on the other side of the garage. Annoying, but they had to do that because of the frunk I believe.
Yeah I thought about that but then the driver is on an inconvenient side. Anyhow I got a EVSE with my solar, then when I was purchasing the Bolt they were giving out free ones left and right, so I have four now. One is portable, one I had installed outside and two are next to each other inside, for no reason other than I had to do something with it. Just a short conduit run back to front through the attic will get between the two doors, easy peasy, and I'm glad I grabbed got the extra freebies.
I made the suggestion on another thread for folks not to sweat total charge capacity too much, but got a lot of argument to max it out (by people who don't own EV's yet?) Anyhow I should have mentioned over there, in my experience because the car sits so long trying to get as many amps as possible isn't important, but convenience of EVSE location is. I'm really glad I have one inside and one out even though we have one car, really useful to be able to charge the car where ever it happens to be sitting.
So with this setup I'll be able to charge inside forward or reverse parked, and outside backwards parked, and I can probably reach forward parked or use my extension if not
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