DETROIT — Common Motors plans to construct a battery-powered model of its top-selling U.S. nameplate — the Chevrolet Silverado — at an electrical car plant in Detroit.

The pickup — designed and engineered as an EV from the bottom up — shall be powered by the automaker’s Ultium batteries with a GM-estimated vary of greater than 400 miles on a full cost, the corporate stated Tuesday. It can face a slew of upcoming electrical pickups, together with a battery-powered model of the Ford F-150 and Rivian’s R1T.

GM declined to supply manufacturing timing on the Detroit plant, often called Manufacturing unit Zero, however forecasting firm AutoForecast Options expects output to begin in late 2022. The corporate expects GM to construct 38,000 electrical Silverados yearly beginning in 2023.

GM additionally confirmed that it plans to make the 2024 GMC Hummer EV SUV, which debuted final week, on the Detroit plant. By 2024, AutoForecast Options expects GM to construct 23,000 Hummer SUVs per yr.

“The automobiles coming from Manufacturing unit Zero will change the world, and the way the world views electrical automobiles,” GM President Mark Reuss stated in a press release. “The GMC Hummer EV SUV joins its stablemate within the realm of true supertrucks, and Chevrolet will take every little thing Chevy’s loyal truck consumers love about Silverado — and extra — and put it into an electrical pickup that may delight retail and industrial prospects alike.”

Manufacturing unit Zero is slated to start manufacturing of the 2022 GMC Hummer EV pickup late this yr. AutoForecast Options expects GM to supply 1,200 Hummer pickups in 2022 earlier than ramping as much as about 17,000 pickups yearly beginning in 2023.

“GM has dedicated to UAW members, their households and the Detroit and Hamtramck group a future on the slicing fringe of mobility. UAW members are excited to be a part of this future,” UAW Vice President Terry Dittes stated in a press release.

The Detroit plant additionally will construct the Cruise Origin, a self-driving, electrical shuttle developed by GM’s self-driving subsidiary in San Francisco. GM has not revealed a timeframe for Origin manufacturing, however a number of forecasters count on output to start in late 2022.

“EVs and AVs symbolize a courageous new world of mobility, bringing new challenges to advanced world of producing,” stated Gerald Johnson, govt vice chairman of world manufacturing for GM. “There’s nothing our group and GM manufacturing and the UAW can’t construct.”

In 2019, GM stated it might make investments $2.2 billion to retrofit the manufacturing unit for EV manufacturing. The funding is the most important in GM’s historical past, the automaker stated on the time. When the plant is absolutely operational, GM says it’ll create greater than 2,200 manufacturing jobs. The plant can construct 270,000 automobiles per yr, GM stated, however the automaker will set manufacturing targets primarily based on EV demand.

AutoForecast Options additionally expects two Cadillac SUVs to be assembled at Manufacturing unit Zero beginning in early 2024: one the dimensions of an Escalade and one other the dimensions of the longer Escalade ESV.

GM has pledged to spend $27 billion on electrical and autonomous car growth by means of 2025. The automaker is concentrating on an all-electric light-vehicle lineup by 2035. Thus far, the Chevy Bolt is GM’s solely EV available in the market, however the automaker will launch a utility model of the Bolt this summer season, adopted by the Hummer pickup later within the yr and the Cadillac Lyriq, inbuilt Tennessee, in early 2022.

U.S. Secretary of Power Jennifer Granholm, who drives a Chevy Bolt, stated GM’s EV “imaginative and prescient is clearer than ever and in attain.”

“Thanks for by no means shedding sight of this superb imaginative and prescient,” Granholm stated.

GM shares gained 1.5 p.c to shut Tuesday at $61.94.