DETROIT – Basic Motors will add a brand new off-road model of the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 to its extremely worthwhile truck lineup subsequent 12 months, forward of the model’s push into electrical pickups.

The automaker unveiled the 2022 Silverado ZR2 on-line Thursday as a brand new automobile as a part of an up to date lineup for the Silverado that is anticipated to go on sale subsequent spring.

The modifications to the pickup come forward of GM providing a minimum of three electrical pickups, together with a Silverado, within the coming years. Officers with Chevrolet declined to debate the electrical model of the pickup, which the model has confirmed however launched few particulars about.

“We’re preparing and coming very quickly, we might be releasing extra data. It is a large product and we will not wait to share it with you quickly,” Kelly MacDonald, director of Chevrolet truck advertising and marketing, mentioned throughout a media briefing.

Trade analysts count on the Silverado EV in addition to a sibling electrical pickup from GMC by 2023, following the arrival of the GMC Hummer EV pickup that is scheduled to be launched later this 12 months.

Chevrolet executives informed reporters that they don’t count on an ongoing semiconductor chip scarcity to impression the launch of the 2022 Silverado. The components scarcity has brought about sporadic plant shutdowns for automakers throughout the globe all through this 12 months.

Updates to the 2022 Silverado vans, together with the ZR2, vary from redesigned options to new security and comfort applied sciences, together with the addition of GM’s Tremendous Cruise hands-free freeway driving system.

Tremendous Cruise might be supplied on the top-end Excessive Nation mannequin of the 2022 Silverado, officers mentioned. The system makes use of a bunch of sensors, radar and cameras to steer, speed up and brake mechanically throughout the automobile’s lane. GM is within the technique of increasing the system to 22 automobiles by 2023. 

The outside design of the 2022 pickups evolves the look of the present Silverado fashions. They characteristic slimmer headlights and enormous refreshed grilles that extra prominently characteristic the model’s bowtie emblem. The designs are just like GM’s full-size Chevrolet Tahoe and Suburban SUVs, which share the identical platform because the Silverado.

Inside, GM redesigned consumer-focused Silverados to incorporate extra applied sciences akin to bigger screens and an elective e-shifter as a substitute of a standard column shifter. The updates tackle among the criticisms by business insiders when the vans had been final absolutely redesigned in 2018.

GM has additionally added customary security options to the 2022 Silverado akin to ahead collision alert, lane hold help with lane departure warning and computerized emergency braking.

The Silverado ZR2 would be the second ZR2 mannequin for Chevrolet. The trim was first launched on the Colorado midsize pickup in 2017.

About 60% of Silverado’s present gross sales are off-road targeted pickups, in response to MacDonald. She mentioned that features an excellent break up between its “Path Boss” fashions and a less-capable Z71 trim package deal

The seems to be and options of off-road automobiles have grow to be extra common with mainstream customers lately. Such fashions additionally usually increase income.

The ZR2 provides to the Silverado’s eight different fashions that vary from three work-focused pickups to the top-end Excessive Nation that may surpass $70,000.

GM mentioned pricing for the 2022 fashions might be introduced nearer to when the automobiles arrive in supplier showrooms. Present beginning pricing for the Silverado ranges from about $31,000 to $62,000.

GM unveiled the 2022 Silverado ZR2 on-line Thursday forward of the pickup making its nationwide tv debut in an advert throughout the NFL’s first sport of the season between the Dallas Cowboys and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.