It might not be as cool as watching a time-lapse video of a Holden VF Commodore being built, but it’s easy to imagine workers at the Bowling Green Assembly facility piecing together a 2014 Corvette Stingray after watching this video. Some of you may have noticed that the build video didn’t include an engine, lights, or anything from the interior. To that we say: good observation.
And Now For A 2014 Corvette Stingray Build Animation
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Is it just me, or does that center tunnel look like it could someday be a battery box?
I hope so! GM must build a competition to Tesla Motors Model S, and the Corvette Stingray is the best to start with.
Should the Corvette go electric in the future, or face extinction when gas becomes scarce?
The Corvette shouldn’t be left to die because nobody had foresight.
The Chevrolet Corvette is a part of American history, and it must go on, but it must be upgraded for the next generations. Electric power has shown that in a smaller package you can have more HP and torque (look at the 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV ratings!), so the future Corvette will be electric. If Tesla Motors did it, so can GM!
That’s what I’m getting at. If the Corvette name is to live on, the best long-term option is electric. It can be a part of American history as much as ever, but GM can’t dig it heels in, ignore the development of EV powertrains, and let the Corvette die because of their unwillingness to adopt new automotive technologies.
The small block has been with the Corvette for ages, but if it is what will kill the Corvette by not meeting emissions targets, then it had to go.
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if gas -and by extension fossil fuels- becomes scarce, you do realize there will be next to no electricity available either. Unless we begin switching over to a fossil fuel free electricity generation now, waiting till fossil fuel is depleted is a moot point.
Currently the majority of the world’s electricity is generated via burning some form of fossil fuel and in better yet rarer cases; nuclear power or dams.
All that said, if we ever went to fully electric vehicles, I’m sure the Corvette as well as all the other great nameplates will surge on (pun intended) – unless people stop buying them.