Video: First EVER Gas vs. EV Heavy Duty Truck Drag Race: It Was OVER From The Beginning!

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It’s time to put a new all-electric heavy-duty pickup truck in a drag race against a gasoline V8-powered HD. I get to drive and learn more about the Magna EtelligentForce electrified HD pickup truck. Magna took a 2021 GMC Sierra HD 2500 AT4 truck, removed its gas V8 engine and 6-speed automatic transmission, and put it their eBeam electric rear axle along with a eDS electric front motor. The results is an HD truck with AWD and nearly 550 horsepower.

Naturally, an electrified HD pickup truck is not for every job, at least with the current battery technology. The prototype GMC Sierra 2500 truck you see here is equipped with a 85 kWh battery. Magna is currently building battery enclosures that can hold up to 180 kWh. Although electric motors can be twice more efficient than internal combustion engines, the energy density of batteries still needs to improve to enable long distance hauling and towing. For comparison, a 36-gallon gasoline tank in a GMC 2500 is equivalent to over 1,200 kWh of energy.

In this video review I show you how this new EV prototype compares against a stock GMC Sierra HD 2500 Denali with a gasoline 6.6L V8 engine (good for 401 hp and 464 lb-ft of torque). Magna also organized a drag race between these two trucks to show the performance difference.

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Andre Smirnov
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