DETROIT — The electrical pickup wars are getting juiced.

Normal Motors has confirmed plans to introduce a battery-powered model of its top-selling U.S. nameplate — the Chevrolet Silverado, additionally one of many nation’s hottest gentle automobiles.

This Silverado will likely be designed and engineered as an electrical car from the bottom up, GM stated final week, and will likely be powered by the automaker’s Ultium batteries, with a GM-estimated vary of greater than 400 miles on a full cost.

The Ultium platform, together with digital engineering instruments and know-how, has allowed GM to chop car improvement timing from idea to launch practically in half, to 26 months.

The Silverado will face a slew of upcoming electrical rivals, together with a battery-powered model of the Ford F-150, Rivian’s R1T and Tesla’s Cybertruck.

Will probably be constructed at GM’s EV plant in Detroit, often known as Manufacturing facility Zero. GM declined to offer manufacturing timing, however AutoForecast Options expects output to start out in late 2022. The corporate expects GM to construct 38,000 electrical Silverados yearly beginning in 2023.

GM can also be constructing the 2022 GMC Hummer EV pickup and the 2024 Hummer EV SUV on the manufacturing unit.

The automaker stated retail and fleet variations of the electrical Silverado will present quite a lot of choices for patrons, with demand anticipated to be “excessive.”

“The automobiles coming from Manufacturing facility Zero will change the world, and the way the world views electrical automobiles,” GM President Mark Reuss stated in an announcement. “The GMC Hummer EV SUV joins its stablemate within the realm of true supertrucks, and Chevrolet will take the whole lot Chevy’s loyal truck patrons love about Silverado — and extra — and put it into an electrical pickup that can delight retail and business clients alike.”