2024 Chevy Silverado HD Will get Extra Diesel Torque and Extra Gears

The 2024 Chevrolet Silverado HD is on the way in which, sporting new seems to be and extra energy. The all-new Silverado HD will nonetheless supply a normal gasoline V8 engine or an optionally available and acquainted Duramax turbodiesel V8, however each engines get energy upgrades to match the heavy-duty Silverado’s new design.

Chevy says the brand new Silverado HD, out there as both a 2500HD or 3500HD, is all about making towing simpler and extra comfy. To try this, Chevy engineers targeted on growing the livability of the 6.6-liter turbodiesel V8, giving the Duramax engine 25 p.c extra low-end torque. The turbodiesel within the 2024 Silverado HD will make 470 horsepower and 975 lb-ft of torque at 1,600 rpm.

The usual-equipment gasser 6.6-liter V8 engine will get a little bit of consideration too. It nonetheless makes the identical energy because it did within the outgoing mannequin, 401 hp and 464 lb-ft of torque at 4,000 rpm, however now the gasoline engine comes hooked up to the Allison 10-speed computerized transmission that was beforehand solely out there with the diesel. The six-speed auto is gone; the Allison is the usual gearbox throughout all Silverado HD fashions.

That mixture boosts the Gross Mixed Weight Ranking of the gas-engine Silverado HD to 26,000 kilos, a rise of two,000 kilos in comparison with earlier than. The gasoline truck’s tow ranking will max out at 22,500 kilos when outfitted with the “max tow” bundle, which is now out there on 2500HD fashions.

In fact, the reworked turbodiesel V8 outdoes the gasoline engine by a bit, with a max tow ranking of 36,000 kilos on the top-dog Silverado 3500 HD dually. That’s the identical because the earlier mannequin, however Chevy says the improved low-end torque will make these large towing jobs simpler.

Chevy added an entire bunch of latest tech to the Silverado HD, together with digital camera options to make hitching up a trailer simpler, and adaptive cruise management that accounts for trailers. And all of that data will likely be simply legible on the Silverado HD’s redesigned dashboard with an enormous new show.

The middle console is angled towards the motive force by six levels, for a form of command-center setup. Passengers will nonetheless be capable to see what’s on-screen, given the huge 13.4-inch show, and the instrument panel is a 12.3-inch digital show. Geez. That’s the scale of a small laptop computer at this level. The inside design seems to be good, a serious enchancment over the outgoing mannequin.

Apart from new towing capacities and drivetrain choices, the large information is the Silverado HD ZR2 mannequin, due for launch in 2024. That’ll be along with different out there Silverado HD trims: Work Truck, Customized, LT, LTZ, and Excessive Nation.

This would be the first time Chevy has made the off-road trim out there on the Silverado HD, and it’ll be fascinating to see what upgrades earned the truck its ZR2 badge. The ZR2 line is legendary for superior off-road suspension, however heavy-duty vehicles are towing and hauling rigs at the beginning, that means most of them have caught with historic leaf-spring rear suspension for many years. The brand new Silverado HD is not any completely different, with unbiased entrance suspension and a leaf-sprung strong axle on the rear. We’ll see what the ZR2 brings when GM reveals extra about this mannequin at a later date.

Within the nascent age of EVs, towing is one job the place internal-combustion automobiles nonetheless reign supreme. We don’t have a transparent thought of how towing and EV vary can coexist (at the very least with present know-how), and that’s why heavy-duty vehicles just like the Silverado HD will follow dinosaur juice for awhile: Chevy vp Scott Bell believes HD vehicles would be the final class of auto hanging on to combustion engines. That appears possible.

Chevy didn’t specify pricing for the 2024 Silverado HD; we’ll have to attend till we’re nearer to the truck’s launch within the first half of 2023 to search out out the MSRP.