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


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 bit of extra details about the bottom front-wheel-drive mannequin. 

Rear-wheel-drive 2025 Chevrolet Blazer RS variations are arriving with an EPA vary ranking of 334 miles for 2025, up from 324, whereas LT AWD variations obtain 283 miles, up from 279. Horsepower and torque figures for each of these 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 AWD. 

Each of these fashions stay obtainable to order now, Chevy says. It additionally added a base worth for its first front-wheel-drive model of the lineup, the LT, at $45,995, together with the necessary vacation spot payment. That model will probably be obtainable for order “quickly,” in keeping with the model. 

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 557 hp, 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 Blazer SS of $61,995. 

2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV RS

2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV RS

Chevrolet had already lowered the bottom worth on current 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 time. For 2025, the Blazer EV LT AWD prices $48,995, whereas the Blazer RS AWD prices $54,295, with some content material that had been customary for the 2024 fashions made optionally available—successfully elevating costs barely however permitting extra flexibility should you don’t need these options.

The LT AWD’s Consolation and Comfort bundle and the RS AWD’s Comfort and Driver bundle at the moment are optionally available—and so is a cost twine. That bundle consists of 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 Package deal combines a head-up show, a surround-view digicam, and a heated wiper park. The bundle 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 bottom worth reduce is a nice shock for EV affordability, as consumers—in current surveys and in precise demand—have indicated they need extra low-price EV decisions. GM simply in March reduce 2024 Chevy Blazer EV costs by hundreds, because it resumed gross sales and deliveries of the electrical SUV after a variety 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 “important software program updates,” together with updates to ambient lighting and gauge-cluster graphics for battery share. In a take a look at drive of the Blazer EV final month, Inexperienced Automobile 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 among the most essential autos of the 12 months for affordability, as a result of it begins with a base model beginning at $34,995 and attributable to ship 319 miles of vary. 

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