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Southern Missouri | Setting in the garage is a 2025 GMC sierra EV that I’ve had for a couple weeks ,it’s setting right beside my wife’s pickup , a 1500 gmc Denali ultimate. After reading several posts on here over the last couple years and having this experience I wanted to share it as a non EV advocate of any kind and I can tell you I still don’t want to be without a ICE vehicle close by . As far as the new ev pickup so far I’m just over the moon about it , wife and son gave me so much crap about getting it I had plenty of second thoughts , however they are softening up a little too . First off on list I didn’t really expect , is going out and getting in it every morning and it’s just like getting in my old pickup except it’s setting there with a completely full tank of gas and that’s with me never spending a second standing beside it pumping fuel since I got it , just pull in park hook up cord go in the house and spend the evening and nigh and come out in the morning to a truck with a full tank, they recommend less than full charge of 460 miles on daily charge so I have mine set at 400 miles , we all thought that range wouldn’t really work out to 400 miles on the odometer, boy were we all wrong there , I’ll get about 420 miles on the odometer out of that 400 mile charge and I drive like hadees . The reason is because of the one pedal drive , anytime you just barely let up on the gas pedal it charges the battery, hence the more miles on the odometer than the charge range says , wierd huh ? Speaking of the one pedal drive , if you’ve every driven a little John Deere tractor or mower with hydrostatic tranny ,it’s nearly identical to that . After I had it a couple days wife and I got in it to go to dinner , I told her watch and see how many times I touched the brake pedal as we drove across town , pretty steep hills and plenty of stoplights on those hills , I never touched the brake pedal one time , when your foot is completely up on the pedal it’ll hold it like the brakes mashed.Damn 1/2 ton pickup weighs 8800 lb shipping , across the farm scales with my junk in it will show 9250 lbs . Nearly all that weight is underneath your feet, handles like it’s on rails , the ride compared to that 1500 Denali ultimate that sets right by it every night is just no comparison and it’s the weight that causes that I’m convinced, I’m telling you the ride for a pickup is just unreal , of course it’s all air ride so the tools I have in the back don’t squat it at all it just airs up a little in the back to level out .That 9250 lb is well carried by the rip your butt off 750 horse and 780 lb ft of torque , it’ll run off and hide from the 6.2 Denali it shares the garage with and it does it without you ever feeling a transmission shift , when you’ve drove lots and lots of hard shifting miles since you were 14 and your 67 it really feels wierd to push the gas pedal and there’s never a shift point , biggest complaint by far would be the price , they’ve got to get the price down l gm is a couple years later than the ford lightning in releasing these trucks but the two year advantage in technology in my opinion is quite a bit , sorry to ramble on about this but I wanted to share the experience so far , I just can’t to get to go somewhere after while so I can drive it again . | |
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My own personal EV experience
