GM introduced Friday that it’s dropping costs by as much as $6,520 on its 2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV, whereas resuming gross sales and deliveries of the mannequin to prospects.
The Blazer EVs as soon as once more reaching prospects have been given “important software program updates,” in accordance with Chevrolet. Examples embrace updates to the ambient lighting system and gauge-cluster graphics for battery proportion.
They arrive after homeowners and reviewers reported a spread of interface glitches, a few of which appeared to intervene with the power to cost and drive the automobile. GM paused gross sales of the Blazer EV in December.
GM confirmed to Inexperienced Automotive Experiences that this replace additionally addresses the intermittent Blazer EV charging points that some have detailed.
2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV RS
Chevrolet can also be dropping costs on the Blazer EV by hundreds. The LT AWD value has been lower to $50,195, which is $6,520 decrease than the unique sticker value. The RS AWD mannequin drops to $54,595, which is $5,620 decrease than the earlier value. The RS rear-wheel-drive mannequin, which is the vary chief of the Blazer EV lineup at 324 miles, additionally drops $5,620 to a brand new value of $56,175.
That aligns the Blazer EV to make much more sense versus different Ultium fashions from elsewhere within the GM household. As beforehand priced, the highest of the Blazer EV lineup topped the worth of the Cadillac Lyriq.
The Blazer EV can also be now totally eligible for the $7,500 EV tax credit score. The corporate notes that for particular fashions that have been constructed earlier and don’t qualify a $7,500 incentive stays in place. Dealerships have entry to a instrument that lets them search for a automobile by automobile identification quantity (VIN) to verify it qualifies.
Quite a lot of EV fashions misplaced the credit score at first of the brand new yr. At the moment new battery sourcing necessities have been put in force underneath a framework that was revealed in early December in a stricter-than-anticipated type—particularly with respect to EV content material from China.
That left firms scrambling. In GM’s case, it was a matter of constructing sourcing modifications to cell separators and electrolytes, maybe amongst different parts.
2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV LT
Honda on Thursday additionally confirmed that the 2024 Prologue EV qualifies for the total $7,500 credit score. The Blazer EV and Prologue are each constructed by Common Motors at GM’s Ramos Arizpe meeting plant in Mexico.
Altogether, the worth lower means a Blazer EV within the well-equipped LT trim, with all-wheel drive, will price simply $42,695 to households who meet the EV tax credit score’s revenue cap and different necessities. With the credit score, each RS fashions additionally slot under $50,000.
Chevrolet didn’t say precisely how the bottom Chevrolet Blazer LT front-wheel-drive mannequin could be affected by these value modifications, though it famous once more that it’ll begin underneath $50,000 not together with the tax credit score. Costs have but to return for the 2024 Chevy Blazer RS FWD and high-performance SS fashions, which aren’t anticipated to reach for a number of months.
There are only a few Blazer EVs in buyer palms as of but. Those that have already got one will get an e mail at present, in accordance with Chevy, containing directions to carry the automobile again to the dealership for a software program replace that may’t be accomplished over-the-air. GM has emphasised that these points haven’t been safety-related and homeowners have been free to maintain driving them.