New Electric Silverado To Be Built In Detroit-Hamtramck Plant

DETROIT — Chevrolet will introduce a Silverado electric pickup truck that will be built at the General Motors Factory ZERO assembly plant in Detroit and Hamtramck, GM President Mark Reuss announced this week.

The announcement — which also noted that the GMC Hummer EV SUV will be built at Factory ZERO, as well — comes as the company plans to deliver more than 1 miller electric vehicles around the globe by 2025 in an attempt to become an EV market leader in North America.

“The vehicles coming from Factory ZERO will change the world, and how the world views electric vehicles,” Reuss said. “The GMC HUMMER EV SUV joins its stablemate in the realm of true supertrucks, and Chevrolet will take everything Chevy’s loyal truck buyers love about Silverado — and more — and put it into an electric pickup that will delight retail and commercial customers alike.”

GM has reduced vehicle development times by nearly 50 percent thanks to its Ultium Platform, virtual development and technology, the company said in a news release.

The electric Silverado will offer customers more than 400 miles on a full charge, according to GM.

In January 2020, GM announced it was investing $2.2 billion in its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant to produce a variety of all-electric trucks and SUVs. In October 2020, GM renamed the plant Factory ZERO, which reflects the company's goals of zero crashes, zero emissions and zero congestion.

United Auto Workers Vice President Terry Dittes said that in November of 2018, GM announced it would close the factory, according to The Associated Press, but the plant became part of the 2019 negotiations with the union that resulted in a 40-day strike, and was brought back as one of four North American electric vehicle factories.