Common Motors is alleged to be contemplating including a compact electrical pickup to its lineup, as one in every of a number of fashions that is perhaps priced at lower than $30,000.
That’s in accordance with a report Thursday from Automotive Information, which claims to have seen the pickup at GM’s “inexpensive EV design studio” in Warren, Michigan.
Automotive Information describes the pickup as futuristic and sporty, and it says that it’s a two-door truck with a 4.0- to 4.5-foot mattress and a low roofline. It additionally says that the truck proven “may very well be a variation of the Chevrolet Montana or the Colorado S10, each offered in Brazil.”
Michael Pevovar, a GM government overseeing Chevrolet inexpensive EV design, instructed AN that this can be a manner of gaining suggestions—from whom, it’s not clear, as GM hasn’t but launched potential specs, or a photograph of the truck, which might virtually definitely use elements from the Ultium Drive household.
GM Ultium Drive household
The report didn’t make clear whether or not the automobile proven to Automotive Information was a prototype, an idea, or merely a clay mannequin. And regardless of the Chevy affiliation of the chief, the report emphasizes that GM didn’t connect a model or timeline for the truck.
GM spokesperson Stuart Fowle instructed Inexperienced Automobile Reviews that the objective of the design-based undertaking is “to be leaders by way of addressing the necessity and demand for EVs at decrease pricepoints and completely different segments.”
“Our designers are exploring what’s potential and whereas we love the passion round it, we have now no additional remark at the moment concerning the particulars of the hassle,” mentioned Fowle. “Many choices are on the desk and we’re excited to share extra sooner or later.”
If GM strikes quick, it might need the one cheap electrical truck obtainable within the U.S. And it bears mentioning, it has been there earlier than—with the S-10 Electrical that was made in 1997 and 1998 for fleets solely.
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There is no really inexpensive small electrical truck now, and with out a single plug-in hybrid pickup the closest present different is a hybrid. The Ford Maverick Hybrid arrived for the 2022 mannequin yr, beginning at simply $21,490 and incomes EPA figures of 42 mpg metropolis, 33 freeway, 37 mixed. For 2023, after sturdy inflationary value hikes, the bottom Maverick Hybrid XL begins at $23,690. Outdoors of that, there aren’t any compact pickups that earn mileage numbers even near 30 mpg mixed.
There are a few potential alternate options, although. The startup Canoo has teased an inexpensive pickup model of its quirky electrical truck household. And past its first yr of manufacturing, there’s nonetheless a distant chance that Ohio’s Lordstown Motors could shift a few of its Endurance electrical pickup manufacturing to a shopper model.
Ford launched the fleet-focused F-150 Lightning Professional at $41,669, together with vacation spot, in spring of 2022, however by the top of the yr the value of that Lightning model had risen 40%, to $57,869. GM has mentioned that the Chevy Silverado EV could have an eventual $39,900 model.