No, you’re not seeing double. InsideEVs’ First Drive take a look at of the 2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV is stay in your studying pleasure. However Editor-In-Chief Patrick George, who drove the automotive final week, introduced up a great level in his piece: “…the few hours we had with these Blazer EVs in sunny San Diego did not present what I might name actionable information but.” There’s no means anybody may know the whole lot there’s in regards to the Blazer EV over a three-hour drive round Southern California.
So that is me getting the so-called actionable information. For the subsequent seven days, I’ve bought the brand new Blazer EV in a spot that’s rather a lot much less forgiving: the Midwest, in December.
We’re proper within the throes of winter right here. Meaning common freezing temperatures and better warmth use than journalists would have skilled throughout the drives of the crossover in balmy Southern California. Additionally, within the title of science and the innate need of each Ohioan to get out of city each 4 to 6 weeks, I’ll be driving the Blazer on a considerable street journey to primarily the center of nowhere.
Okay, Raleigh, N.C. for a household dinner most likely isn’t the fairest classification of a state capital that has two of probably the most prestigious universities within the U.S., however you get my drift. Even in an ICE automotive, I’m staring down a 470-mile, seven-hour drive, not together with charging stops.
Now we’re gonna see what the Blazer is de facto made from.
Chevrolet despatched me a 288-horsepower AWD RS trimmed Blazer EV, good for 278 miles of vary. In concept, this implies the Blazer ought to in concept be capable of do the drive with just one charging cease.
I’ve my reservations, although. The path to Raleigh cuts by the guts of Appalachia – meaning rolling hills and quick freeways with minimal site visitors. Together with the decreased temperature, the terrain, and elevated velocity are elements that can have an effect on vary. At a not precisely class-leading ranking of 278 miles, we’ll want the entire vary we are able to get, particularly contemplating there are so few EV charging stations by the parts of Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina that the route will take me.
I’ve achieved an analogous, however shorter route earlier than in a Lucid Air Grand Touring; it’s not a straightforward route. We’re getting that actionable information, y’all.
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This week with the Blazer EV is all about studying what this factor can do, and what it’s wish to stay with. On some degree, we’ll all be studying collectively. I’ve pushed loads of EVs, even Chinese language automobiles not bought within the US.
However that is the primary GM Ultium platform-based automotive I’ve pushed. GM CEO Mary Barra has wager rather a lot on this platform. It seems prefer it’ll underpin principally each future GM car because the conglomerate enacts its plans to transition to a completely electrical future. This automotive needs to be good, however on the similar time, the handful of first-drive opinions have proven that not everyone seems to be satisfied of the Ultium platform, Barra, or GM’s insistence on eradicating beloved options, like Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.
So, what would you wish to know in regards to the 2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV? Ask away.