Towing With The Silverado EV! Everything You Need To Know About Towing With Chevy's Electric Pickup 

Tesla does, ea has station's opening later this year laid out that way with overhead solar canopies&battery storage(tesla megapacks) I think flying j&bucees with the latest gm&tesla charging tie ups will ad more laid out like fueling station's are. Wal-Mart is getting in the charging game to and one drawing I saw showed station's under a canopy with side by side pull through setups for it.

Yepp, that has been a complaint for years.

Charging ports should be at the front. 90% of all carching events is at non public chargers atm. These are typically mounted to a wall.

Massive torque, way more than diesel even.

Correct. The labeling can be confusing, but the important bit is that the loader is a separate product from the tractor, even if you purchase them together. You can connect or disconnect the loader in 5 minutes or even sell it to someone else with the same series of tractor.

Agreed. My remote home has a 120/240v, 30A inlet for a generator, but plugging a truck into it would be so much cleaner. They make interlock brackets now for most contemporary electrical panels that make you chose either the inlet breaker or utility main breaker so that both can't both be on together. That saves having to go with a subpanel, etc. 'Much cheaper than a full transfer switch and subpanel.

Oops that's only 5 tons I was thinking 10 t. Just enough hay for a few days.

Sure does

Yeah, bit weird with the 10 000 hay bale thing.

Yep and fueling stations make more money with people stopping in and buying stuff from the shop than the actual fuel sales. It would be nothing for a few of these areas to set up a small sitting area with coffee and snacks for sale while folks wait a few minutes to charge.

I thought free wire would corner that space personally? They have a few here at various gas stations here in GA already. Usually just 2 dual head station's. 1 ccs, 1 chademo port or dual ccs I've seen so far. With the low install costs&onboard battery backup. It just made sense to me they would quickly become added to gas stations. 🤔 Maybe a lot of charging companies are in limbo due to the ira passing late last year? Chargers not made in the U.S. with U.S. sourced materials aren't even eligible for the nevi incentives muddying the waters so to speak. Plus the recent tesla/nacs vs ccs1 war? Teslas like or or not right now are over 75% of all evs on us roads, and with the production capacity they already have? It won't change much until late 2025+ either likely not until more toward 2027 imo. The single most productive automotive plant in the U.S. is teslas freemont plant for 2+years running now. Also the largest ever automotive plant under 1 continuous roof. Right NOW in the U.S. is the tesla ev only plant in tx. It's only getting started with it's ramp up.

Buc-ee's way ahead of them

Cheaper versions will be introduced next year.... GM is starting with the top trims.

They are all giddy about a truck the public can't buy. Fleet only. Really annoying. They can't say anything bad at the moment due to their contracts they signed I'm sure. For the price of these, you only get a big battery, and a bare bones interior. Ford could have done that to, but realistically, people keep frowning on the Lightnings for their 131kw battery and it's tow range. Majority of people don't travel 100's of miles a day, let alone tow, even at Max capacity. These trucks really aren't meant for that. I'd much rather have tons of creature comforts with a smaller battery to offset the cost. With the midgate, I hardly ever saw anyone with an Avalanche actually use it. These RU-vidrs reviewing these trucks are out of touch with what the public actually uses these for and the loudest critics are the guys who regularly tow with their 3/4 to 1 ton pickups any other day. That's just my opinion. It doesn't really matter.

@@Nebula1701the work truck STARTS at $80K basically the cheapest version.

@@bsandoval19 the WT4 work truck does, that's the fully loaded one. There are still cheaper versions.

Been on the list since they announced it. Really disappointed the work truck price has doubled, putting it out of reach. For me, with the mid-gate, it’s my dream truck 😢

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Just like my ice truck!

@@gmv0553 Except it much easier to refuel our ICE trucks when towing. I would love a PHEV version, nothing crazy, maybe 60 km of EV range is more than enough around town range and enough ICE to tow 4000 kg in hybrid mode, a small flex fuel V-8 should be more than enough even in HD trim with a hybrid mountain mode. Big bonus would be no need for a crazy transmission versus an ICE truck.

It does not "flip". Aero has the same amount of range issue when going up, flat, and down hill at the same speed. Weight is the only thing that is a negative, neutral, or plus when going up, flat, or downhill respectively.

@@curtisbme you are right! I didn't word it properly. The aero is a function of overall speed and overall CdA but the weight on Uphill on quickly add up, and higher the grade %, m*g*sin∅ catches up quickly. I guess when normalized to 100%, we can see the distribution start changing every % of grade.

I hope its less quirky and more reliable than the Hummer EV - that thing has NOT impressed

Let’s hope its not Hummer-like in reliability

What do with the trailer if you need to charge at a station?

If someone wants to charge with a gooseneck trailer, there's gonna be some extra steps involved.

That might work in a pinch, but I bet it would throttle charging speeds quite severely. DCFC cables are liquid cooled. An extension cable wouldn't be and would get way too hot too quickly.

Very tricky problem. The cables include cooling and thermodynamic management.

@@justinfowler2857 Or it would be a very fat cable. Like the Tesla V2 supercharger cables that are not liquid cooled and are super heavy vs the V3 supercharger cables that are tiny but really fast and liquid cooled...

@@peterjorgensen3 That might work. It might end up being really stiff and hard to handle. Especially if it's cold out. Not saying that it's impossible. I just question the practicality.

I still think these truck and SUV EVs that can tow respectable payloads should have a NACS port in the rear of the truck next to the hitch. That way, future companies that make trailers and campers etc with battery skateboard platforms can have them plug into the rear of the vehicle to help add range.

The ev weighs as much as a F350 dually depending on configuration. Doubt the weight distribution hitch is needed. I pull heavy with a 1 ton and have never needed one. That said, you need to know how to load a trailer.

Probably not for a half ton, maybe if they ever make an HD BEV or PHEV.

They are set up in rows at most Ea locations in Ohio except huber heights oh

No they shouldn't. Until they battery tech gets to where you can be in and out in 5 minutes, you need to park and the current set up is the most space efficient may to handle charging that takes 20mins to hour+. They just need to add some pull-through options in big lots that have the room to do so.

@@curtisbme Sorry, that does not change what they should do and some are starting to be set up that way.

@@robwalker4548 Hey, if you have all the money to buy extra land and don't care about return, you put in all the pull through electric charging stations for the tiny minority of trucks that might be towing something that you want. But for those in the real world, pull through stations will be secondary options, not primary ones.

Not replacing - I love the Rivian’s size and trail capability - perhaps a big battery silverado for towing in the future though

I think it depends on when Kyle hits the lottery again.

Right...are these half tons or 3/4 ton truck. These heavy ass things are gonna eat up the already crumbling infrastructure.

Sticker had no goose-neck option indicated.

@@zapfanzapfan understand. Its an omission.

@@kelargo Sticker also said tow weight of 8000, not 10 000 like was suggested with the hay bales.

Hyy sir

Personally, I'm tired of smelling the DEF fluid. The smell of mechanical diesel is so much better. It's going to take some serious battery energy density advances before EV HD trucks replace diesel HD trucks.

@@mtnman1984yeah that probably won’t happen for 20 years

@@Itsme-fn9mc the batteries will likely be developed faster than we think, but the timing of designing a new car around the new tech is the question.

You’ll be gone long before that happens. Thankfully. Stop whining.

Helps when the CEO and President started their careers as engineers

Pretty sure this is targeted at those that are using and happy with half-ton capability

I am betting that you can go well over the rated payload without stressing the truck any.

Looks like they have one of each there.

@@godofdun At 4:13 in the same blue color as the Silverado RST is the one I was referring to. Edit - I see the other one just on the edge of the shot at 4:22 and then it is in the center (briefly) at around 6:36. And by the way, these are both FWD in their base configuration? *That* is a big disappointment, for sure. Edit 2 - at about 6:39 Kyle says which is which - the Blazer has the black nose and is on the left, and the Equinox has the blue nose and is in front of the Silverado RST.

@@NeilBlanchard The one at 4:13 you're looking at is the Equinox, the other is the Blazer. FWD at base is pretty standard in GM land. It's usually not much more for AWD.

@@godofdun RWD is much better traction than FWD, and RWD also allows for a much better steering angle; because there are no CV joints and no half shafts on the front wheels. Lower cost, lower weight, longer range - and it is possible to have a much smaller turning circle, with RWD.

@@NeilBlanchardWhen did I start an argument about the benefits of RWD? I'm aware of all of that lol.

1kWh at pack level costs about 120 to 150$, so 200kWh is 24-30k.

@@Scrap-press isn’t a power wall 10kwh? And isn’t that about $10,000?

@@mgarcia8878 Yes and yes. When i build my home made solar batteries i get the cells "B-Grade" for about 150 Euros /kWh. When i buy the complete pack including everything its about 1000 Euros/Dollars. Even buying a used VW or Tesla battery pack is just too expensive.

@@mgarcia8878 Your's lthe retail price. Those 120-150 is what is cost for car manufacturers at the pack level.

@@Scrap-press that’s a hell of markup. It won’t be long when people start looking at price per kilowatt.

Would need to be a very light 5th wheel to due to the low payload capacity on the truck. Few passengers, little to nothing in the frunk

@@toddmiller8005 i got a fiberglass trailer 5th wheel weights ~5000lb. ETI 5.0TA. awesome camping road trip rig. could be awesome if I can tap into the battery for 120v to power the trailer

Blame RU-vid

For new video uploads, it takes some time for RU-vid to process the higher resolution formats before they become available.

360p is encoded first for every video ever. Saving you from having to ask again next time.

There’s like 30 seconds on that.