GM introduced Friday that it’s dropping costs by as much as $6,520 on its 2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV, whereas resuming gross sales and deliveries of the mannequin to clients.
The Blazer EVs as soon as once more reaching clients have been given “important software program updates,” in line with Chevrolet. Examples embody updates to the ambient lighting system and gauge-cluster graphics for battery proportion.
They arrive after house owners and reviewers reported a variety of interface glitches, a few of which appeared to intervene with the flexibility to cost and drive the automobile. GM paused gross sales of the Blazer EV in December.
GM confirmed to Inexperienced Automotive Experiences that this replace additionally addresses the intermittent Blazer EV charging points that some have detailed.
2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV RS
Chevrolet can be dropping costs on the Blazer EV by 1000’s. The LT AWD worth has been lower to $50,195, which is $6,520 decrease than the unique sticker worth. The RS AWD mannequin drops to $54,595, which is $5,620 decrease than the earlier worth. The RS rear-wheel-drive mannequin, which is the vary chief of the Blazer EV lineup at 324 miles, additionally drops $5,620 to a brand new worth of $56,175.
That aligns the Blazer EV to make much more sense versus different Ultium fashions from elsewhere within the GM household. As beforehand priced, the highest of the Blazer EV lineup topped the value of the Cadillac Lyriq.
The Blazer EV can be now totally eligible for the $7,500 EV tax credit score. The corporate notes that for particular fashions that had been constructed earlier and don’t qualify a $7,500 incentive stays in place. Dealerships have entry to a instrument that lets them search for a automobile by automobile identification quantity (VIN) to ensure it qualifies.
Quite a few EV fashions misplaced the credit score firstly of the brand new 12 months. At the moment new battery sourcing necessities had been implement underneath a framework that was revealed in early December in a stricter-than-anticipated type—particularly with respect to EV content material from China.
That left corporations scrambling. In GM’s case, it was a matter of creating sourcing modifications to cell separators and electrolytes, maybe amongst different elements.
2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV LT
Honda on Thursday additionally confirmed that the 2024 Prologue EV qualifies for the complete $7,500 credit score. The Blazer EV and Prologue are each constructed by Common Motors at GM’s Ramos Arizpe meeting plant in Mexico.
Altogether, the value lower means a Blazer EV within the well-equipped LT trim, with all-wheel drive, will value simply $42,695 to households who meet the EV tax credit score’s earnings cap and different necessities. With the credit score, each RS fashions additionally slot under $50,000.
Chevrolet didn’t say precisely how the bottom Chevrolet Blazer LT front-wheel-drive mannequin is perhaps affected by these worth modifications, though it famous once more that it’s going to begin underneath $50,000 not together with the tax credit score. Costs have but to come back for the 2024 Chevy Blazer RS FWD and high-performance SS fashions, which aren’t anticipated to reach for a number of months.
There are only a few Blazer EVs in buyer palms as of but. Those that have already got one will get an electronic mail as we speak, in line with Chevy, containing directions to convey the automobile again to the dealership for a software program replace that may’t be accomplished over-the-air. GM has emphasised that these points haven’t been safety-related and house owners have been free to maintain driving them.