GM is mulling a Chevy Camaro EV

The final Chevrolet Camaro left the manufacturing unit 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 Trend.

GM would take a special method than rival Ford, which has utilized the Mustang title to the Mach-E electrical crossover bought alongside the normal gasoline coupe and convertible. Reuss’ perfect electrical Camaro can 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 thus far, although, any future electrical model would reportedly have 4 doorways. Sports cars 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 just 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 instructed Motor Pattern that the bottom value of a Camaro EV may very well be just like the $34,995 beginning value of the Chevy Equinox EV crossover.

Potential 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 inexpensive EVs—each, maybe, even by then beginning beneath $40,000. If a Camaro-inspired mannequin had been to land in that value vary too, as a automotive, it’d pivot that efficiency automotive’s picture in the fitting means.

Whereas an inexpensive 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 supply lower-profile EVs primarily based on its Ultium element set—maybe with the cylindrical batteries it is planning to make with Samsung.