---
title: "Chevy Silverado 1500 Diesel Engine Will Be Built in Michigan"
description: "The all-new 3.0-liter Duramax engine promises to boost efficiency of Chevy's popular full-size pickup truck."
date: "2018-01-16"
modified: "2018-01-17"
authors:
  - name: "Eric Brandt"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/eric-brandt"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/17728/chevy-silverado-1500-diesel-engine-will-be-built-in-michigan"
categories:
  - "Chevrolet News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
  - "Trucks"
tags:
  - "Chevrolet"
  - "Chevy"
  - "Chevy Trucks"
  - "Diesel"
  - "Michigan"
  - "pickup"
  - "silverado"
  - "Truck"
---

# Chevy Silverado 1500 Diesel Engine Will Be Built in Michigan

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Chevrolet confirmed during the Detroit Auto Show that the [all-new 2019 Silverado 1500](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/17661/chevrolet-reveals-2019-silverado-1500-at-north-american-international-auto-show>) pickup truck will be available with a [diesel engine](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/11818/chevy-and-ford-race-to-join-ram-in-the-half-ton-diesel-pickup-segment>), something we haven’t seen in a full-size Chevy pickup since the mid-1990s when it was still called the C/K. While we’re still waiting on specifications such as horsepower, torque, and mpg ratings, the one detail we do know is where the new engine will be built: Michigan.

The 3.0-liter diesel is an all-new GM design and it will be built at the General Motors engine plant in Flint. It will be mated to the 10-speed automatic transmission co-developed with Ford which is currently available in a growing number of vehicles such as the [Chevy Camaro ZL1](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/9472/10-speed-2017-chevy-camaro-zl1-only-needs-8-gears-to-hit-180-mph>), [GMC Yukon Denali](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/10623/2018-gmc-yukon-denali-gets-10-speed-automatic-transmission>), and Ford F-150. Production of the new diesel engine will begin in late 2018 or late 2019 according to [*Automotive News*](<https://www.autonews.com/article/20180116/OEM01/180119756/gm-picks-mich-plant-to-build-new-silverado-diesel-engine>) and we aren’t sure yet how many jobs it will create.

Speculation says the diesel-powered Silverado 1500 could match or beat the targeted 30 mpg highway rating of the 3.0-liter Power Stroke diesel coming to the [Ford F-150](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/17454/ford-f-150-diesel-revealed-packing-30-mpg-and-11400-lb-towing-capacity>) which will have the exact same transmission as the diesel Silverado. That efficient 10-speed transmission combined with 450 pounds of weight savings from the current-generation Silverado should make for a very efficient truck.

There’s no word yet on a new GMC Sierra 1500, which has long been a mechanical twin of the Chevy Silverado. We wouldn’t be surprised to hear news about a new Sierra with the same Duramax diesel option sometime soon.

Now all General Motors needs to do is not cheat on diesel emissions like [seemingly everyone else](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/17555/ford-becomes-newest-target-of-diesel-emissions-cheat-lawsuit>) in the business.

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