Chevrolet has actually started client deliveries of its new Blazer EV crossover. Declared at last year's CES keynote alongside a new Equinox EV, the electrical Blazer uses General Motors' brand-new Ultium battery platform, albeit with styling hints that call back to the gas version. Now, Chevy has actually launched pricing info for the 2024 Blazer EV, and if you were wishing for a 1LT entry-level trim, there's some problem, as that option has been dropped entirely.
Initially, the 1LT was revealed with a beginning cost around $44,995 and was arranged for the very first quarter of 2024. Now, the least expensive Blazer EV will be the front-wheel drive 2LT, although that version won't see showrooms till next year, and prices will not be revealed until closer to that time.
Currently the Ramos Arizpe factory in Mexico is only developing four-wheel drive Blazer EVs, and today just in RS trim, which begins at $60,215. This Blazer has an EPA variety estimate of 279 miles (449 km). That really makes this Blazer EV more costly than the entry-level Cadillac Lyriq-- which starts at$58,590-- an EV that has more variety but likewise only a single electric motor driving the rear wheels. This fall, theplant in Mexico will add another set of trims to the mix. The less expensive of these is an all-wheel drive Blazer EV 2LT
, which starts at $56,715. This flights on smaller sized wheels and does without some of the RS's options, like shiny black trim, heated rear seats, and a heads-up screen. The other trim being included this fall is the rear-wheel drive Blazer RS. Confusingly this apparently costs more than the AWD RS and starts at$
61,790. However you do get a Bose audio system that the AWD does not get, and Chevy states it anticipates this trim to have a variety of 320 miles (515 km). Next year Chevrolet states it will start developing the Blazer SS, an efficiency model(and Chevrolet's first performance-focused EV). Expect plenty of power: 557 hp(415 kW
)and 648 lb-ft(878 Nm )are the goal. However the timing has actually altered for this trim to spring 2024. And early next year Chevrolet will likewise begin making Blazer EV Police Pursuit Vehicles. The loss of the least expensive Blazer EV is more evidence of the ever-increasing expense of EVs, something that has the prospective to slow adoption if left unabated. GM informed Automotive News that the more expensive variations of the Equinox EV( which is suggested to begin around $30,000 )must fill the space left by the elimination of the Blazer EV 1LT.