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2025 Chevy Blazer EV will get extra vary, energy enhance, lower cost


  • 2025 Blazer EV will get as much as 334 miles of EPA-rated vary, in line with Chevy
  • Energy has been boosted by as much as 25 hp versus 2024 Blazer EV fashions
  • Base front-wheel-drive $45,995 Blazer EV LT will probably be obtainable for order “quickly”

Chevrolet on Friday confirmed a lift to each EPA vary scores and energy output for its rear- and all-wheel-drive 2025 Blazer EV lineup. It additionally launched pricing and a little bit extra details about the bottom front-wheel-drive mannequin. 

Rear-wheel-drive 2025 Chevrolet Blazer RS variations are arriving with an EPA vary score of 334 miles for 2025, up from 324 miles within the 2024 Blazer EV, whereas LT AWD variations obtain 283 miles, up from 279 miles. Horsepower and torque figures are additionally up—to 300 hp and 355 lb-ft for the LT AWD, and to 365 hp and 325 lb-ft for the RS RWD. By energy, that is up 12 and 25 hp for the 2, respectively; and by torque, that is up 22 lb-ft for the LT AWD.

Each of these fashions stay obtainable to order now, Chevy says. It additionally added a base value for its first front-wheel-drive model of the lineup, the LT, at $45,995, together with the obligatory $1,395 vacation spot price. That model will probably be obtainable for order “quickly,” in line with the model. And all variations of the Blazer EV are anticipated to retain their $7,500 EV tax credit score eligibility however this hasn’t but been verified by the federal authorities.

Vary-leading RS RWD and top-performance SS AWD fashions will get a bigger 102-kwh battery pack whereas the remainder of the Blazer EVs get an 85-kwh pack. SS fashions step as much as 595 hp and 645 lb-ft of their Extensive Open Watts efficiency mode, plus a retuned suspension, and 0-60 mph occasions beneath 4 seconds, and whereas Chevy hasn’t additional detailed that mannequin it confirmed a lower cost for the 2025 Blazer SS of $61,995—$4,000 decrease than when initially confirmed. 

2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV RS

2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV RS

Chevrolet had already lowered the bottom value on present AWD LT and RS variations by as much as $1,200 as they had been renewed for the 2025 mannequin 12 months earlier this previous summer season. For 2025, the Blazer EV LT AWD prices $48,995, whereas the Blazer RS AWD prices $54,295 and the RS RWD is at $56,990, every with some content material that had been commonplace for the 2024 fashions made non-obligatory—successfully elevating costs barely however permitting extra flexibility should you don’t need these options.

The LT AWD’s Consolation and Comfort package deal and the RS AWD’s Comfort and Driver package deal are actually non-obligatory—and so is a cost wire. That package deal contains wi-fi cellphone charging, an influence tailgate, energy entrance heated seats, heated steering wheel, and extra, and is indicated as costing $2,295. The RS Comfort and Driver Bundle combines a head-up show, a surround-view digital camera system, and heated wipers. The package deal provides an indicated $2,620 however GM doesn’t seem to permit deleting it for 2025. 

2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV

2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV

However, the entry value cuts are a nice shock for EV affordability, as consumers—in latest surveys and in precise demand—have indicated they need extra low-price EV decisions. GM in March lower 2024 Chevy Blazer EV costs by hundreds, because it resumed gross sales and deliveries of the electrical SUV after a spread of interface glitches, together with charging points, led to a Blazer EV gross sales pause in December.

GM famous that fashions delivered after that manufacturing pause had been given “vital software program updates,” together with updates to ambient lighting and gauge-cluster graphics for battery share. In a check drive of the Blazer EV final month, Inexperienced Automotive Reviews discovered no software program gremlins and was impressed by this mannequin’s effectivity and vary.

2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV SS

2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV SS

In the meantime, the 2025 Chevrolet Equinox EV is likely one of the most essential autos of the 12 months for worth and pricing, as a result of it begins with a base model beginning at $34,995 and on account of ship 319 miles of vary. 

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