Rumors of the pending demise of the petroleum-powered, Missouri-built full-sized Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana vans have been circulating for years, but they continue to sell reasonably well, and the costs of the platform have been amortized several times over. Smart money would have GM selling a version of the electric van that Hyundai is developing alongside the Express and Savana, until electricity is ready to assume that market completely which will be, well, nobody knows.
On the other side, GM—Chevrolet and GMC, specifically—have plenty of light-truck expertise and capacity, with long-established nameplates in the mid-sized truck category with the Chevy Colorado and GMC Canyon, both appearing in 2004. They are now into their third generation, which was introduced for 2023.
