Back in February, the all-new 2020 Chevrolet Menlo EV officially launched in China, hitting the ground running as a Chinese-exclusive battery electric compact crossover. Now, we’re taking another look at the Menlo EV and one of its cool cargo features in the following GM Authority Feature Spotlight.
The feature in question is found in the Chevrolet Menlo EV’s sizable rear hatch. Underneath the rear hatch cargo floor, there’s a segmented tray, which can easily hold a number of different items safely and out of sight.
Looking over the official picture provided by Chevrolet, the cargo tray can hold things like a bag, the battery charging cord, some rope, and other things.
As a reminder, the 2020 Chevrolet Menlo EV is exclusive to the Chinese market. It was developed in a joint venture between General Motors and China’s SAIC, also known as SAIC-GM. There are currently no plans to make the all-electric crossover available outside of China.
The Chevrolet Menlo EV debuted in November of 2019, and sports an exterior design that takes cues from the 2017 Chevrolet FNR-X Concept. The crossover seats five passengers, and rides on a regional variant of the GM BEV2 platform. The GM BEV2 platform also provided the underpinnings for the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV.
As for the powertrain specs, the Chevrolet Menlo EV is motivated by a single electric motor, which doles out 148 horsepower and 258 pound-feet of torque. The motor is juiced by a 52.5 kWh batter pack. Range between plugs is rated at 256 miles on a single charge, based on the New European Driving Cycle standards.
With General Motors ramping up its all-electric vehicle efforts in a major way over the next few years, it’s possible we’ll see similar storage solutions on models destined for the U.S. as well.
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The storage space is great, but it is the car I want to own.
Why not bring it to the U.S.? All the imports are bring their cars here because there are many foolish buyers who believe that a car not made in the U.S. is better, so just bring this and satisfy those buyers, and keep the profits here, too. Where I live, the Chevy Captiva is very common and sold here, yet it isn’t made in the U.S. either, but GM keeps those profits.
Please stop wasting our time with GM China, VEHICLES THAT WILL NEVER BE IN USA, GM is all talk, on EV where are the EV for USA. We are totally tried of what you are doing in China. If you are going electric lets see the vehicles. When are you going to train people to sale the EV. We are sick of hearing about and not see a vehicle.Please wake up the CEO, Let GO! Tried of talk.
Don’t scream at your computer if you’re angry that China steals all of our secrets and get the sweetest rides.. scream at the stockholders that appointed Mary Barra to be General Motors CEO because she gave China the Menlo EV while we’re stuck with the Chevrolet Bolt.
PLEASE PLEASE STOP REPOSTING articles and comments about this CHINA ONLY EV!!! CHINA only EV’s would be almost impossible to bring to the US!!! Read the articles people! It only has like 160 mile range so that wouldn’t work for us! Just wait till the GM cars come to the US! They are coming!
The point is make it here put a bigger battery in it to get 300 miles do what ever it takes to stop telling us what your doing in China and do something here, you came out with the Bolt 4 years ago you could have had another model out already with the Bolt, don’t tell us O it will be a long time before more models out, Tesla has models coming out all the time. Don’t tell us GM IS going all electric and it takes 4 or 5 years to see a new model, and you take the Volt away, but you give it to China as a Buick. The problem is you say their coming they should already have been on the dealer lot and sold. Not o THEIR COMING!
You obviously no nothing about how business and manufacturing work.
You obviously no nothing about getting vehicles produced, by the way I own a Bolt which I will be keeping I also have a 2018 Volt Love both of the vehicles, the Volt will go back Feb, so need one vehicle for long trips, so GM has nothing plugin, that will take its place with fast charge system you can depend on that is fast. So GM stops the volt, but lets Buick in China make and sell it, so people in USA who love the vehicle have nothing in their line to go to, our a fast charging system nation wide that you can depend on. So I will be going to Tesla that has a super charging all over the USA. And buy their vehicle. So don’t tell me I donot know about business and produce, you already have a Volt here keep making it Our you should have a nation wide super charger system with cars coming out to hook to the system its called using common sense look to the future as Tesla did to keep your customers. So donot tell me about business you keep your customers not lose them because GM is brainless when it comes to keeping customers.
This is the car GM needs to selling today in the U.S, it would give buyers a real alternative to the Tesla, instead we are left with Barra waffling on about some maybe future date for a mythical Hummer reveal. Pretty sure we will soon hear the Hummer is delayed indefinitely due to the virus, the riots, the elections etc, just endless blah blah blah from Barra.
The point is make it here put a bigger battery in it to get 300 miles do what ever it takes to stop telling us what your doing in China and do something here, you came out with the Bolt 4 years ago you could have had another model out already with the Bolt, don’t tell us O it will be a long time before more models out, Tesla has models coming out all the time. Don’t tell us GM IS going all electric and it takes 4 or 5 years to see a new model, and you take the Volt away, but you give it to China as a Buick. The problem is you say their coming they should already have been on the dealer lot and sold. Not o THEIR COMING!
I don’t think any of you know how to spell, or construct a correct sentence! If you can’t even do that, how could you possibly be intelligent enough, to convince anyone, that you really know anything beyond a 5th grade education? Geez!