The 2015 Chevrolet Silverado features a trio of new EcoTec3 engines, a quieter and more comfortable cab, a refined interior with connectivity, improved ride and handling, and ingenious solutions for managing cargo in the bed. Based on this, it is no surprise that the team that built the Silverado went to extremes to design a truck that would exceed the demands of the customers.
For example, the 2015 Chevrolet Silverado underwent more than 6 million miles of durability testing in the torture chambers at the Milford Proving Ground, over the deserts and mountains of Nevada and across the frozen flats of Kapuskasing, Ontario.
That’s equivalent to 240 trips around the earth. In addition, the trucks accumulated more than 7 million real-world miles during final testing, bringing total test miles to more than 13 million.
The increased power, torque and efficiency of the EcoTec3 engine family resulted from an unprecedented level of computer analysis, including extensive computational flow dynamics, to optimize the burning of air and fuel in the cylinders. More than 10 million of hours of computational analysis went into the engine program. And more than 6 million hours – about 685 years’ worth – of analysis went into the advanced combustion system alone.
Even the basics, like the new inlaid doors, were tested to the extreme, with the doors undergoing nearly 150 truck lives’ worth of testing.
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