GM Reveals Futuristic Chevy Truck Design

By Gary Gastelu |

Jun 12, 2025

The Chevy Silverado saw its biggest change last year with the launch of the Silverado EV. The all-electric pickup shares nothing but its name with the internal combustion engine models, and that includes its styling.

The Silverado EV’s body and cab are incorporated to accommodate the Multi-Flex Midgate that opens to extend the bed into the cabin. It also has angled buttresses connecting the top of the bed sides with the rear cabin wall for added structural integrity and reduced aerodynamic drag.

It still has a prominent hood, however, but it’s mostly there to provide a “frunk” storage compartment, since there isn’t a big engine that needs to be covered. But what if it didn’t have that?

One GM designer named Alex Fischer appears to have asked that question. The GM Design Instagram account has posted some of his ideas for futuristic Chevy trucks that look nothing like what’s on sale today.

The overarching theme features a blunt snub nose that ends right in front of the wheels and continues straight up into a vertical windshield instead of making a 90-degree turn onto a hood.

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Some of the designs appear to move the front seats closer to the wheels, which is a layout that is easier to achieve with an electric vehicle platform, but none to so far as to place the seats above the axle, as in past forward control trucks like the Chevrolet Corvair pickup.

The designs bring to mind those of the Canoo electric vehicle company, which went bankrupt before getting them into production, even as the styling received much acclaim.

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It’s unlikely that Fischer’s sketches will find their way to production soon, either, as the Silverado EV is pretty frsh and GM’s next new full-size pickups coming in 2027 are set to be powered by internal combustion engines, including new V8s. That’s also when Ford is scheduled to launch its next generation electric pickup, which may look more like Fischer’s idea than it does the current F-150.

While it has not yet been revealed, Ford CEO Jim Farley has described it as the “Millennium Falcon with a back porch attached,” suggesting a radical new style. A recent patent for a frunk storage system included sketches of a truck with a very short hood and a large windshield that extends to the front of the wheels, although at an angle and not vertical like Fischer’s designs.

Automakers, of course, often run into consumer resistance with radical pickup designs, so one of them will need to take a leap of faith to bring something very new to market.