The final Chevrolet Camaro left the manufacturing facility in late 2023, placing the vaunted muscle-car nameplate on hiatus. However Basic Motors president Mark Reuss desires to see the Camaro make a comeback as an EV, in response to Motor Pattern.
GM would take a unique strategy than rival Ford, which has utilized the Mustang identify to the Mach-E electrical crossover offered alongside the normal gasoline coupe and convertible. Reuss’ splendid electrical Camaro could be a automotive, not a crossover, in response to Motor Pattern. The Chevy Blazer EV, arguably the model’s present rival to the Mach-E, arrived with loads of cues carried over from the Camaro, although.
2024 Chevrolet Camaro
Not like each manufacturing Camaro up to now, although, any future electrical model would reportedly have 4 doorways. Sports activities vehicles and convertibles constructed on skateboard EV platforms are scarce, due to all of the packaging hurdles, and gross sales of two-door vehicles do not precisely justify extravagant engineering options. That also leaves room for a four-door coupe much like the present BMW i4, although.
As an alternative of going for the most important horsepower numbers and quickest acceleration, Reuss additionally desires a Camaro EV to return to the nameplate’s roots, emphasizing simplicity and affordability. Reuss informed Motor Pattern that the bottom worth of a Camaro EV might be much like the $34,995 beginning worth of the Chevy Equinox EV crossover.
Attainable electrical Chevrolet Camaro in GM Ultium teaser video
With an upcoming Chevy Bolt EV, plus the Equinox EV, GM will have already got a number of reasonably priced EVs—each, maybe, even by then beginning below $40,000. If a Camaro-inspired mannequin had been to land in that worth vary too, as a automotive, it would pivot that efficiency automotive’s picture in the correct method.
Whereas an reasonably priced Camaro EV seems to be extra a factor that Reuss want to do versus one thing that is firmly in GM’s product plan, the automaker has hinted for a number of years that it intends to provide lower-profile EVs based mostly on its Ultium part set—maybe with the cylindrical batteries it is planning to make with Samsung.
