- General Motors has designed a two-door, electric compact pickup truck, as reported by Automotive News.
- The truck will compete with the Ford Maverick and will fit under the Chevy Silverado EV, pictured above.
- The EV truck will start under $30,000, but there are no concrete plans for production as GM is still evaluating the feasibility of the new model.
Both full- and mid-size pickups have grown in size in recent years, and Ford found an opening in the truck market when it introduced the truly compact Maverick in 2022. The company sold all 74,000 units it could build last year and already on sale from the 2023 model year. It seems cross-town rival General Motors has taken note, with Automotive News reports that the automaker has created preliminary designs for a compact two-door truck.
AN said it saw images of the pickup at GM’s design studio in Warren, Michigan on Wednesday. The proposed truck will be smaller than the Maverick and Hyundai Santa Cruz, both of which come with only four doors. The truck is also electric, with a bed measuring between 4.0 and 4.5 feet long. Prices will start under $30,000, and while there’s no make or model name associated with the truck, it’s hard to imagine it’s anything but a Chevrolet.
General Motors is researching what customers want in a small truck. AN reported that Michael Pevovar, Chevrolet’s director of affordable EV and crossover design, said, “We created this to get a reaction and then try to modify or continue.” Affordability is a focus of the project, and Pevovar admits that the two-door body style may be too small for the four-door-dominated US market. No production timeline was mentioned, but if GM receives positive feedback, we expect the electric compact truck to arrive before the end of the decade.
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