GMC Sierra EV review

Seating for four people is ample, and though it’s busy the GMC makes good use of the space available. The Sierra’s replete with storage bins and pockets galore for gear, devices and so on.

Rear seating can be sacrificed for extra storage space by folding them away, made even further useful with the adjustable midgate. This means the section between the cabin and the bed can be stowed to increase the bed length to nearly 11 feet. All the while, there’s the eTrunk or ‘frunk’ up in the Sierra’s snoot which has 11cu ft (311 litres) of storage capacity.

It’s worth noting too that both the frunk and bed are set with various outlets and connections for accessories, tools and such to make use of all the mobile battery power on hand.

How about the tech?

The centerpiece of the Sierra’s cockpit is the 16.8-inch tablet-like infotainment slab. The touchscreen incorporates a number of Google-based apps such as navigation and is fairly easy to use. Like other GM vehicles, the UI is customizable, mitigating the time spent searching through the multitude of menus. This is paired by the configurable digital driver display behind the wheel.

We’ll take any chance we get to praise GM’s haptic alerts, which are also included in the GMC Sierra. The usual pre-collision and pedestrian alerts are present, as are all the parking sensor warnings, which GM ties into the seats for a directional buzz, notifying the driver without further distraction. Indeed, this helps direct attention to the correct side of the car rather than away from it. More of this, please, carmakers.

Anything else worth noting?

We mentioned this before but bi-directional charging is here for vehicle-to-home use in case of power grid failure, and there’s the included Super Cruise hands-free driving assist. We guess we should talk about crabwalk too.

What, you allergic or something?

It’s just not the party trick everyone makes it out to be. Thanks to the rear-wheel steering, the Sierra EV – like the other cars on this platform – can cut the wheels in a way where the pickup ‘slides’ in a diagonal direction, ostensibly handy for scooting out of narrow parking spots. Thing is, it takes a lot of practice to be comfortable with and it often just sets the car into a permanent drift angle you can’t recover from. Even if you’re going all of 3mph.