This electric pick-up has just made more than 1,700 km on a single load, but …

The Chevrolet Silverado has just broken the world’s world record traveled on a single load. This electric pick-up has traveled 1,704.6 km during a test carried out by the engineers of General Motors.

The previous autonomy record for an electric vehicle, owned by Lucid with 1,205 km, has just been pulverized. The Chevrolet Silverado EV, a 100 % electric pick-up of General Motors, has traveled 1,704.6 km over a single load.

The feat was made possible by a methodical optimization of driving conditions. The experience was carried out on open roads, near the General Motors test center in Milford, Michigan.

No software has been reprogrammed, no oversized battery installed: the engineers were content to get the most out of the vehicle. On the other hand, the speed was maintained between 32 and 40 km/h.

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An average “ close to urban conditions “, According to GM. This is not false, but under these conditions, the Lucid Air might have done even better. During its test, the large electric sedan had borrowed the highway and climbed mountain passes, with appearance ” normal ». In short, these two records ultimately have much to do.

In addition, GM specifies that minor technical adjustments were necessary to make these 1,704.6 km:

• No passenger on board for most of the test;
• Wiper brooms set to the low position to reduce the drag;
• Tires inflated to their maximum pressure to reduce rolling resistance;
• Emergency wheel withdrawn to lighten the vehicle;
• Optimized wheels parallelism;
• An added dump cache to fluidify the flow of air;
• Air conditioning deactivated for the duration of the test.

But according to the manufacturer, this record highlights above all “ The importance of eco-driving And proves that it is possible to go beyond the announced averages. The official autonomy of Silverado is ” what » de 792 km.

To close this unusual test, the electric pick-up was used to supply a 3D printer… which made the record trophy.