Silverado EV from Chevy made a record of 1,059 miles on a load – here is how

The startup EV Lucid Motors is extremely proud to carry out its high statistics at the hard – by the effectiveness of rigorous engineering in its engines, its driven, its bodily aerodynamics and its chassis. General Motors takes a slightly easier path with its electric trucks: pile up many more batteries. Each approach is suitable for different target audiences of disparate car manufacturers – as well as the conditions undergone in each of the recent complaints from the Guinness Book of World Records. Fancy Lucid achieved its record of 748.9 miles by leading a circuit (and mountainous) route between St. Moritz, Switzerland and Munich, in Germany. “Oh yeah?” Harumphed the engineering team behind GM electric trucks, “look at this”.

The challenge

The team responsible for electric trucks of General Motors (The Chevrolet Silverado EV, GMC Sierra EV and GMC Hummer EV Pickup) had an intuition of its most effective variant, driving gently in the south-east of Michigan, could simply be able to better this lucid of 112 kWh. This variant is the edition of the work truck of the Chevrolet Silverado EV 2026 equipped with the maximum 205 kWh-range battery pack, using the best nickel-manmana-cobalt chemistry. It is evaluated at 493 miles from the EPA combined Range.

The plan

Thus, the team gathered a whole new Silverado EV base with only 500 miles of running -in showing on the odometer, the equipped with a tons blanket and designed a plan to allow many team members to relax their baby at low speed around the Métroplex de Detroit, beautiful Isle Park by Milford de Detroit (Grand Prix Fame).

They did not make any hardware or software modification, in addition to equipping the truck with a set of tires that were well worn (they essentially cleared our Penny test from Lincoln’s head to wear bars) and swelled at their maximum pressure (80 psi, from the without load of the 61 psi sign). Beyond that, the rules were simple: lead to lower speeds (the average was less than 25 MPH) and leave the CVC with the cracked windows (once the odometer has spent 1000 miles, they allowed themselves a little air-conditioned comfort).

40 engineers, 7 days, 1059.2 miles

In all, 40 members of the team took the bar over a period of seven days, leading on many slightly covered roads (sometimes gravel). Jon Doremus, director of engineering, calibration of electrification propulsion, was at the helm, surrounding the wide road of the cycle around Belle Isle, when the Silverado EV WT spent its last valiant Watt. At that time, the travel computer confirmed the totals: 1059.2 miles traveled, with an average of 4.9 miles / kWh (double in double the EPA note of approximately 2.4 miles / kWh). This just beats the Lucid Grand Touring XR with an official note of 19 -inch EPA of 4.6 miles / kWh. Lucid’s hypermilers made more than 6 miles / kWh, but they then went downhill. Moritz is on average about 4,000 feet more than Munich, while the Detroit metro is fundamentally flat.

The truck produces a trophy

The dead truck was brought back to Milford, its battery was completed and the energy used to supply a 3D stratasys F370 printer, which spent 6.5 hours printing an ABS plastic trophy to commemorate the bonus event, which barely exhausted the big battery.

We warn the GM team to celebrate hard now, because this record may not stay long. Lucid’s record broke a June 2025 record set by a Mercedes-Benz EQS 450+, traveled 649 miles over two days in Japan.