One of the sticking points for new EVs is price, and GM is lowering MSRPs for the 2025 Blazer EV, but there’s an important piece of information to note.
After a bit of a shaky start, the new Chevrolet Blazer EV is hitting the road in greater numbers. We’re just about to roll into the 2025 model year, though, so the automaker is changing up its packaging options with each of the two trims it currently sells: the LT and the sportier-looking RS. Pricing for 2025 models, per GM Authority, starts at $48,995 for the all-wheel drive LT.
If you check out the current configurator, you’ll notice that’s actually $1,200 less expensive than the 2024 version (including Chevy’s $1,395 destination fee). The RS, for its part, comes in $300 lower at $54,295 to start for the AWD model. At the moment, the Blazer EV’s other powertrain options including the less expensive FWD models, the RWD version and the performance SS don’t have pricing figures.
On the surface, it looks like GM is shaving a little bit off the starting price to woo customers into the Blazer EV. However, the company’s move to rearrange some package content negates the supposed savings against the 2024 cars. It mainly boils down to features that were standard when the Blazer EV first launched now being extra-cost packages, meaning you’ll actually pay more for the same vehicle if you buy a 2025.
For example, the 2024 Blazer EV LT AWD gets the $1,225 Convenience and Driver Confidence Package as well as the $2,295 Comfort & Convenience Packages as (mandatory) options. Now, for 2025, the Convenience and Driver Confidence Package is baked into the standard features list for the LT AWD. So, you get items like adaptive cruise control, enhanced automatic emergency braking, reverse automatic braking and a 360-degree camera system off the bat. If you want the other Comfort and Convenience package for 2025, however, you will have to fork over the extra cash, making the car more expensive, feature-for-feature, than it was for its first year.
The now-optional Comfort and Convenience Package adds in Chevy’s AutoSense power liftgate, wireless phone charging, heated front seats, an 8-way power driver’s seat and 6-way power passenger seat, black Evotex seating material, an auto-dimming mirror, heated and power-folding mirrors and wiring for trailering.
The Dual Level Charge Cord is also no longer included as standard equipment for either the LT or the RS. The RS Convenience and Driver Confidence Package (that was a $2,620 forced option for 2024) is no longer baked in, either. Even though the RS gets a $300 price shave on paper, you don’t get the same level of value as before, when you’re directly comparing features between the two model years.
No powertrain changes are in store for the 2025 Chevy Blazer EV, if you lean toward getting the new one. The AWD models manage 288 horsepower and 333 lb-ft of torque, while the RS RWD gets 340 horsepower and 325 lb-ft.
Update 6/10/24: A Chevrolet spokesperson also shared that “there will be performance improvements coming for the 25MY Blazer EV models”. How much improvement we’re talking about remains to be seen, as the company also says it will announce more details closer to the production date.
