2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV Is One of many Solely Autos in Historical past With Obtainable Entrance- and Rear-Wheel Drive

What will get the Blazer EV shifting?

Hid beneath the Chevy’s hanging sheetmetal is GM’s BEV3 platform. It is what is understood within the trade as a skateboard and it consists of a chassis that homes the battery packs, electrical motors, suspension parts, the wheels, and the entire main electrical parts. Skateboards are fashionable with EV producers as a result of they are often modified to swimsuit different-sized automobiles in quite a lot of segments with out being utterly reengineered. Within the case of the BEV3 platform, it types the premise of the newly launched Cadillac Lyriq, the upcoming Cadillac Celestiq and the Chevrolet Equinox EV. It is also the platform for Honda’s much-anticipated Prologue.

The Blazer EV makes use of GM’s Ultium battery tech and can be obtainable in front-, rear- and all-wheel-drive configurations. That is proper, the Blazer is among the solely automobiles ever to be obtainable with FWD and RWD. Chevrolet has not but launched battery specs or energy outputs, however because the platform is similar because the one within the Cadillac Lyriq, we count on one thing within the ballpark of 100 kWh of capability and a minimum of 300 horsepower for entry-level fashions. The range-topping Blazer EV SS will high out at 557 hp and 648 lb-ft of torque — good, Chevy says, for a mad-dash 0-60 mph run of lower than 4 seconds. Chevy additionally claims as much as 320 miles of vary, relying on trim stage.

You’ll be able to juice the Blazer EV’s battery through Degree 2 charging with charges as much as 11.5 kW. In the event you’re on the go, you may as well reap the benefits of the Blazer EV’s commonplace DC fast-charging {hardware}, which attracts electrical energy at a price of as much as 190 kW. On the proper charger, that ought to add practically 80 miles of vary in simply 10 minutes. House owners will be capable to discover a charger utilizing GM’s Ultium 360 program, which pulls charger location information from seven nationwide charging networks.