Chevrolet Blazer EV

Chevrolet has been selling electrified vehicles for many years now, but one of the brand’s newest models, the 2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV, is something a little different. Using GM’s Ultium battery technology, it’s a model that the brand hopes will start to drive Americans into seeing mass-market EVs as a reasonable alternative to gas-powered models. And while we wanted to drive it a while ago when it first came out, a slowed introduction and roll out due to software and manufacturing issues meant there weren’t many on the road until now — and the ones that were on the road generally had issues.

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No longer, however. Chevrolet seems to have ironed out any software bugs and assembly glitches, and now the Blazer EV is flowing out of the manufacturing plant and onto dealer lots in volume — and we finally got to spend a week behind the wheel of a sporty RS model. Cars.com Detroit Bureau Chief Aaron Bragman drove it all over southeast Michigan and came away with some definite thoughts on how Chevy’s first competitor in the mid-size electric SUV class performs, including one aspect of the new Blazer EV that might be a deal killer for a lot of prospective customers.

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