2025 Chevrolet Silverado EV Review
2025 Chevrolet Silverado RST EV
Price: $96,495
205 kWh Battery w/ 2 DC Motors at each axle
754 HP / 785 TQ
375 Mile Real World Range
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Guy who did stuff: Yousef Alvi
Let’s get this out of the way first…the 2025 Silverado EV is expensive. Like $15-20,000 more than all of it’s competitors expensive. Is it worth that much more? That is the question that plagued me during my week with it.
Let’s go over some quick details:
It’s powered by 2 motors at each axle, which in turn is powered by a 205 kWh battery pack. Which all in all gives you 785 ft/lbs of torque. Engage Wide Open Throttle mode and the horsepower jumps up to 754! Without WOT mode, it feels around 500 HP. Not sure why there is such a gigantic difference from ‘normal’ to WOT mode but I’ll boil that down to marketing.
Lugging around all of that stuff is a body that is massive. Measuring 19 feet long, 7 feet wide and 6.5 feet tall, the Silverado EV dwarfs most if not all vehicles on the road today. But what trounces all on the road is weight of the thing. The Silverado RST EV weighs a massive 8800 pounds! To put that into perspective, a 2007 Chevrolet Kodiak weighs the same amount.
The Silverado RST EV weighs the same as this massive Kodiak!
On the plus side, all of the space doesn’t go to waste. The interior is feels as spacious as a Victorian cathedral. The rear legroom alone is 44 inches! Which dwarfs everything from the Lightning to the Rivian all the way to the Tundra. That’s a lot space…but that is not all.
All of that space can be used for utility as well. The Silverado RST EV can fold down the entire rear seat, partition to the bed and the rear glass to extend the rear bed a massive 10 feet long! Which is longer than a 2500 Silverado!
So, in other words, the Silverado EV makes full use of it’s heft, size and weight.
Chevrolet also took advantage of all that real estate to wrap the Silverado RST EV in a body that makes other trucks on the road look boring if not uninspired. The 2025 Silverado EV is not just the best looking Silverado ever made…it is the best looking truck on the road today. Hell, it’s pretty much the best looking truck made in the past 25 years! It’s stunning!
It’s not without it’s faults though. First, it’s idiotic not to have CarPlay integration. Second….well just look at this picture:
Oh come on GM!
The dashboard looks like it was stitched by a robot having a stroke. On a $30k vehicle. Sure whatever. On a $50k that would be annoying. But on a vehicle costing $100,000 that is just unacceptable.
Oh and unlike every other manufacturer, there is no button to close the frunk. So you have reach up on your tip toes, grab the latch and yank it down to engage the motors to close it. If a button does exist, it’s so well hidden that it might as well not be there at all.
So how does it drive? Drives well. Drives better than a standard Silverado. There is no frame shudder to speak of and the optional rear wheel steer helps maneuvering a ton. The steering is surprisingly direct and quick, thanks to the massive 24 inch wheel’s tiny sidewalls. Add all of that up and the Silverado RST EV drives a lot smaller than it is.
But no matter what, you can’t change the laws of physics. Chalk it up to the immense weight of the thing but even with WOT engaged, the Silverado never felt ‘fast’. For some reason, even with nearly 800 ft/lbs of torque, it’s not the normal EV immediate wall of torque. It just steadily builds up. Whereas the Lightning will bolt off like a sprinter, the SIlverado builds speed like a jet. Again it’s not slow but it is different.
To help stop all of that massive is your obligatory 6 piston brake caliper and 14 inch rotors. It gives the Silverado EV decent braking performance but nothing to brag about. The regen braking though, works extremely well and has the option of using a paddle on the left side of the steering wheel for like a ‘super’ regen mode. Unfortunately, that paddle felt like it was either stuck or broken because it didn’t move at all.
Let’s talk about the range and here is something to write home about! We had 370 miles of range and barely went through 100 of that in our week of testing. That is with plenty of highway and city driving in our week of testing. Which is phenomenal.
Let’s go ahead and break it down:
The Great
Look at it: The best looking pickup truck on the raod today? Absolutely.
Range: Barely will eat through electrons
The Bad
Price: Stickering about $15,000 more than it’s competitors, the Silverado RST EV is one expensive machine.
The Ugly
Quality: WTF GM. The stitching on the dashboard looks like the robot suffered a seizure whilst stitching it. The Regen paddle felt like it was stuck
CarPlay / AA: WTF GM. I don’t care what your lame excuse is…the buying public wants full phone integration. Bring it back.
Frunk: It’s $100,000 and there is not a button to close the freakin frunk.
The Overall
The staggering difference in price compared to it’s competitors, quality control issues and GM’s refusal for CarPlay integration…it’s hard for me to recommend the Silverado RST EV.
Unfortunately , it seems to be a running theme with most GM vehicles* I have reviewed over the years. They get really, really close at making something truly great…just to trip over their own shoelaces at the finish line.
*other than the Corvette and the CT5-V Blackwing. Those are so good that they feel like they were made by a completely different company
