It could go head-to-head with Ford's Mustang Mach-E GT or Tesla's Model Y Performance. The full reveal is next month.
, which it co-developed with Honda. And if GM used the same motors from the all-wheel drive version of the electric Cadillac Lyriq, the Blazer SS EV would have exactly what it needs to fight its Ford and Tesla rivals, putting down about 500 horsepower to the Mach-E GT’s 459 and the Model Y Performance’s 450. Based on what we can infer from the images of the Blazer SS EV, it looks like it could simply be a Lyriq in Chevrolet clothing.
In short, we don’t expect the Blazer SS EV to be a bargain-priced EV, but it’ll almost certainly offer similar performance for less money to the competition, which Chevrolet has a history of doing. Being on the same platform as the Lyriq would also indicate that it’s likely that a base model Blazer EV would be rear-wheel drive and carry about 312 horsepower.
The existing gasoline-powered Blazer crossover appears to share nothing with its future electric counterpart, and this type of branding approach is already in place with Chevrolet’s Silverado EV: The gasoline-powered Silverado is a completely different vehicle than the electric Silverado. The former is built in the tradition of steel ladder-frame pickups, while the Silverado EV is a pickup built on the same quasi-unibody platform as the GMC Hummer EV.
Chevy says the Blazer EV is coming in 2023, and together with the smaller and less-expensive electric Equinox and Bolt EUV, will set the automaker up nicely for the EV future with three different sized electric crossovers. If the
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