Two Chevrolet Silverado EVs Serve as a Power Plant for a Quebec Concert Tour

Setting up an outdoor stage without a generator rumbling behind the crowd, and without tapping into the grid, is rather unusual. Yet a music tour that made five stops across Quebec this summer pulled it off, with the batteries of two Chevrolet Silverado EV pickups and a 150-kWh storage trailer supplying every bit of power.

The free tour ran from August 15 to 22
The trucks powered the stage, while the trailer handled the kitchen
Not a single drop of diesel was burned along the way

Electrek reported the story, and its editor-in-chief, Fred Lambert, attended the Montreal finale. He also disclosed that his company, Ixian, helped design the trailer.

Music, Corn, and Kilowatt-Hours

Papillons, the Quebec company behind the Rechargéco fast-charging network, is behind the project. Dubbed “Le goût du paysage,” the event brought together singer-songwriters Émile Proulx-Cloutier and Dumas, along with chef Oli, who served up corn dishes made with local ingredients.

The stops: Trois-Pistoles, the Vallée Bras-du-Nord in Saint-Raymond, Parc Éco-Laurentides in Mont-Blanc, Île-aux-Castors in Berthierville, and a grocery store parking lot in Montreal’s Saint-Henri neighbourhood.

Outlets in the beds of the two Silverado EVs fed the sound system and lighting. As a reminder, GM’s electric pickup carries a 205-kWh battery and can deliver up to 10.2 kW of power, depending on the trim.

The kitchen, with its electric cooking units, ran off the trailer instead.

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Silence Is Golden

Why go to all this trouble? Because most of the venues had no access to the grid.

Normally, organizers solve that problem with a noisy, polluting generator parked a few steps from the audience. For acoustic sets, it kills the mood.

By relying on battery power, recharged on Hydro-Québec’s grid, the whole exercise is considerably greener. The limiting factor remains each truck’s output, which is enough for a modest stage but perhaps not for a stadium show.

Still, it’s a convincing demonstration of just how useful and effective bidirectional charging can be.