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GM to launch third electric pickup truck later this year

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Nueva pickup eléctrica GMC

General Motors has confirmed that it will launch a third electric truck later this year. It will bear a GMC badge and compete with the Tesla Cybertruck, Ford F-150 Lightning, and Ram 1500 as a full-size truck.

It will follow the GMC Hummer EV truck into showrooms later this year but will be positioned more as a workhorse than its lifestyle-oriented stablemate. An electric version of the Chevrolet Silverado will eventually join the new GMC truck.

Duncan Aldred, the British-born executive who left the UK to oversee General Motors’ Buick and GMC divisions, believes that GMC’s new offering has what it takes to beat the competition in the electric truck class.

In a recent conference, he said, “I’m very confident that GMC will be a big winner in this space. I think we are already showing our excellence in terms of electrification; we have done that through Hummer EV.” Aldred also mentioned that the new truck would be “quite advanced.”

He stated that the electric GMC truck is scheduled to enter production later this year, surpassing both the Tesla Cybertruck and the Rivian R1T to market. However, the name of the new truck is still unknown.

The new GMC truck is part of General Motors’ $35 billion investment dedicated to electric and autonomous vehicle development.

The strategy will see the company launch 30 new electric vehicles globally by 2025, with the goal of selling at least one million electric vehicles per year within the same period. By 2035, General Motors will gradually phase out internal combustion engines entirely to become an exclusively electric manufacturer.

Despite the electric truck market being relatively new and, therefore, largely untested, buyers have flocked to companies like Tesla and Ford to place orders for their upcoming electric truck offerings.

One week after the Cybertruck unveiling, Tesla said it had racked up over 250,000 reservations, and current estimates put that figure at over a million. Meanwhile, Ford claims to have received over 100,000 reservations for its new all-electric F-150 Lightning.

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