General Motors announced the surprise debut of the new Chevy Equinox EV at CES 2022 today, which will enter production in fall 2023 with an estimated starting price of around $30,000.
The automaker is remaining tight-lipped on the technical details of the Chevy Equinox EV at the moment. For now, all we know is that the battery-electric crossover will leverage the automaker’s new BEV3 platform as well as its Ultium battery and Ultium Drive technologies, and will be offered in both fleet and retail versions, including in the LT and sporty RS trim levels.
In a statement, Chevrolet vice president Steve Hill said the Chevy Equinox EV will be hugely important for the brand, as the compact crossover segment enjoys the highest sales volume in the entire automotive industry.
“The Equinox has always played an important role for Chevrolet as the second-highest selling brand nameplate,” Hill said. “Providing an affordable EV option in the industry’s highest volume segment proves Chevy is going to make EVs available to everyone.”
An artist’s rendition of the Chevy Equinox EV interior shows a digital instrument panel, a large centrally mounted infotainment display and the automaker’s Super Cruise steering wheel. The interior also features circular air vents similar to those seen in the Chevy Blazer crossover and Chevy Camaro sports coupe.
Moving outside, the Equinox EV adopts a sleek exterior design with a narrow LED front light bar spanning the width of the front fascia, small LED fog lamps mounted in the grille, two-tone paint with a contrasting black roof and a rear LED light bar. The RS trim level also gets its own unique exterior treatments, including trim-specific front and rear fascias with sportier, more aggressive styling.
GM Authority will have more details on the new Chevy Equinox EV as its launch date in fall 2023 approaches. In the meantime, be sure to subscribe for more Chevy Equinox news, Chevy news, GM electric vehicle news and around-the-clock GM news coverage.
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Better be at least 300 miles of range. Anything less is competing against older competition.
I believe it will, there’s no reason it doesn’t. It’s larger than the Bolt
How much $$$ is it to charge a vehicle ? By the kilowatt? Is it free now at AAA Parking lot?
Depends on where you charge it, who’s providing the chargers, and what state you are in if charging by the kWh or time.
Sorry there is no such thing as free. No matter the state do not kid yourself the tax payer is paying for your “free electric charging”
As I said it depends, there are many places at offer free charging to provide a service and attraction to their stores. But if they do sell the electrons they are bound by local laws.
Taxpayers kids and grandbabies also get to breathe cleaner air. How important is that?
Well neither is gas with all the oil industry tax breaks AND AND AND the cost of our military in various parts of the world to keep the shipping lanes open for you. But soon you can burn whats left and then own the refineries.
If you have solar free. If I charged today at home about $1.76 per equivalent say 38 miles per gallong driven gas car in my area. I base that on my current volt rated 38 but I get more miles and less depending on driving habit and temps but it charges 11kwh x 16cents..= 1.76…and even it it say jumped to 30 cents your still talking $3.30…I will take it. I control my own costs especially if one has solar.
1st Edition models are 100k, 30k model to appear 5 years later.
and same charge rate of 100 miles per 10 minutes like the trucks. Then and only then is a 300 to 350 range suitable as charge time is more important for any extended travels for the 15 minute pea breaks for coffee too if not out right eating lunch or dinner. Are you paying attention GM. I am tired of waiting!
What about charging time? .. And home charging requirements? .. Especially if you live in a remote area when you have plenty of options to get the old fuel ..gasoline!?
Remote areas are perfect for home charging. Just plug it in at night and wake up to an additional 200 miles of range. Why drive to a gas station that might or not be open?
Where you get gas you can get electricity. Unless the gas pumps are mechanical.
Who is designing these EVs for GM nowadays?
This one looks much better than, and fits the demographic better than the Silverado EV in my opinion.
Travis: I agree totally.
Love it I can smell the plastic through the screen.
Why for the love of god does GM (and others) unveil new products that won’t be on sale for almost 2 years.
Pretty much how its been done the past 50 or so years? Show close to production ready concept to build excitement. Then launch the production car the following year. This will be a 2023 model.
I’m sure the upcoming autoshow will feature many cars that will be launched next year.
They’re all trying to prove to investors they have a solid EV strategy, so their stock price holds/increases, so they can maintain bank funding for developing EVs
Much sooner than Chrysler revealing something that’s 4 years away.
The Chrysler Airflow looks better but I suppose Nox is chasing the softer Ford Escape demo while Blazer will be taller and meaner.
We will see how this works out and if Chevrolet can recapture the coasts with low cost EVs? I don’t like the design. It looks like a beefy Bolt.
To raise their damn stock price!
GM always presents concepts and prototypes two years before final production . The Chevy Bolt appeared January 2015 and the first production began at the end of 2016 for the 2017 MY. Same for the Cadillac Lyriq which begins production this year.
To gauge customer sentiment! Just look at the 2010 Bu’ pretty car no one could fit thru doors. I maybe off a year, it was the shortest run GM model in recent times(1.5years).
What is a Bu?
Because they think you will wait. But what they don’t realize yet is the EVs are like cell phones and we will take any good product with the right features. NO MORE permanent loyalty.
It will be on sale next fall. That is one year – almost to the day. Far cry from Tesla who reveals a new model and then you wait 4 years and counting before it is available…
Maybe it’s just the renders but it looks a lot smaller than a current Equinox to me
Yes, I think this is more of a marketing ploy. Replacement for the Bolt since that name is now toxic in consumers’ minds.
Not in my mind. I will buy a Bolt as soon as it is available. Terrific car.
It is about 7 inches longer and 3 inches wider, but 2 inches less tall. It also has 9 inches more wheelbase. The stance makes it look sportier and smaller but it is overall a little bigger than the current Equinox.
Wooooooooooow. Like I said this shift to BEV’s will be the reason that GM overtakes Toyota and Honda.
Looks great inside and out
That’s eating you alive isn’t it? The fact Toyota beat gm. Allllllllllllllll aboard the excuse train is now leaving the station.
Why shouldn’t it? Killer air bags, rotting frames, and oh yeah those stylish looks. Almost as much fluff from the press as the current administration in the White House.
I agree the gm ev are terrible you forgot to add burn you alive though.
Better than the idiot you had before.
GM will build the Honda electric sedan named “Prologue” at the same Tennessee plant that builds the Cadillac Lyriq . That Honda will use the same Ultrium power base but Honda will supply the body.
I really think EV’s need to be in that 1000 mile range to replace gas and hybrid vehicles. No body wants to have to stop and charge for any longer than it takes to fill a tank with fuel. At a 1000 mile range, that would give someone 12 hours of driving at 80mph and would be plenty for most long long hauls.
We are not too far away. The tech is evolving quickly. There are already a couple cars with 600 and 700mi range.
Who can drive 1000 miles without stopping to eat or use the bathroom. 400 miles is more than enough.
well nobody but you aren’t going to get much of a charge if you are just running into a place to take a leak.
76-100 miles recovered charging in 10 minutes.
I can recover my gas tank in half that time and get 4 times as much range.
I’m with you Tigger good point.
If you have a nice fast pump. There are still very slow pumps out there. xD
Also it’s all about time management. You stop for a rest break or Lunch and you come back to a almost completely filled EV it doesn’t really hinder you at all.
Would 400 mile battery be enough for a truck towing in a North Dakota winter? Probably not. You’d lose 20% just from the extreme cold and another large percent for towing a load.
Yes but….we’re talking about the Equinox. You’re talking about a 2500 replacement, which none of the vehicles shown today are meant to replace/compete with
How long does it take you to take a piss?
I don’t know exactly. The older I get the longer it seems to take. Regardless, not enough time to charge an EV.
What a piss poor example.
It comes down to the distance between common destinations. I’d like to drive to Vegas or Phx non-stop if I can. That’s 350-400 miles, so a 400 mile range is significant to me. If I drive to SF, that’s longer, and I might stop at a spot for lunch. I’m waiting for these charging companies to make deals with restaurant chains to put charging stations in their parking lots so that people can plug in while they eat.
How often are you in your car for 12 hours?
Just a couple of times of years when we go out west to hunt. Depending on the number of guys going sometimes we drive straight through (18 – 30 hours) depending on where we are going.
If I can go 5-6 hours and recharge in the time it takes to eat lunch, that’d be just fine. There were days in college where I drove 15 hours with a pizza on the passenger seat, gas and go’s only. But stopping for 20-30 minutes for meals is I think normal for many, wouldn’t be a big issue for me
Wow! 12 hours of driving at 80 mph. Now that will be one dangerous person on the road.
You’re talking about the less than 1% type trips?? 1,000 miles in 12 hours.. are you teens headed to Daytona? For that type of special trip rent a car for $300 and put cheap miles on someone else’s vehicle. For the other 99% 300 miles plus is definitely usable. I put 40k miles a year on my company cars and rarely does a days mileage go over 250.
Still no mention of Buick??
Buick has its own electric cars made in China. And the Electra name is patented for a new EV.
UGLY!!!
Hopefully it will be RWD in Base form as all BEV’s should be. But I am sure GM will make it FWD without a Frunk
Where will this be built? Lansing Grand River?
No china
Why the down votes? I thought it was a legitimate question.
Welcome to GMA. Legitimate questions get the most down votes.
I can’t believe the amount of so called “adults” that stress down votes geez what are you 13?
Judging by your ad hominems and lack of punctuation, I’d ask you the same thing.
I’m not worrying about complete strangers I will never meet down voting me. But don’t worry I gave you a thumbs up since you are stressing it really bad.
@ PCL and Tigger
This is America we can downvote what we want. You don’t like it move to china.
Real intelligent…….Why don’t you try answering my original question of where the vehicles will be built if it is not too much over your head.
It is smart isn’t it you must not live in the states or you would know we can downvote what we please. Sorry you live in a crappy country oh the original question it’s being made in Mexico.
Taco holders?? Your going to need them when your in line to charge your glorified golf cart
Because everyone knows it’s being made in china
Looks brilliant. Wow
I was just looking over the high resolution image of the LT interior on Chevy’s pressroom website. I noticed something strange on the switchbank to the left of the steering wheel. It has an Autostop defeat switch. I didn’t think BEVs had Autostop. Could it be just something the designer overlooked or will the Equinox EV also be offered with an ICE?
And in the lower-left corner of the instrument display is a gas pump with the arrow indicating the fuel filler door on the drivers side…
No, that point to where the electric charge port is.
IMHO China is on a short leash in continuing its manufacturing of products for the US.
I’m so tired of range complaints. They mostly come from derp derps that would complain of the range if it was 1000 miles.
This just in. It can be fully charged every time you leave your house. Who drives more than 6 hours a day, every day? You may be the .01% and should stay with ICE for now.
I feel range is a valid hangup. Of course very few are driving long distance everyday. GM (and the industry as a whole) are changing over to electric very rapidly to the point where there may be very little to no other choice within a decade. Change can be scary, especially with many unknowns. I wouldn’t feel confident to trade my ICE on an EV at this point. Sure I only travel long distances a handful of times per year, but if I have an EV now I have to plan for something new. I travel from PA to MI two to three times per year to visit family. This is a recurring trip that I have completed many times with a door to door distance of 317 miles. I can make this trip without stopping for gas. We usually stop for one break to stretch and pee along the way for no more than 5-10 minutes. Having to recharge an EV for longer than that time would be an inconvenience. The problem with EVs is that a 317 mile range isn’t guaranteed. If I’m running the heater, defroster, A/C it will drop the range, as will extreme temps. Not to mention that range will decrease over time as the battery degrades as it goes through many charge cycles. I get range anxiety when my gas tank dips below 1/4 already. How many times have you been playing around with your phone or other electronic device at 5 or 10% battery, and before you know it it’s shutting down, because the battery is dead? My digital camera loves to do that. SO, then the question becomes what kind of range do I really need to guarantee the trip even after several years of battery degradation? I don’t think I could accept anything with less than 500 miles of range, unless it can recharge in ten minutes or less. The next problem is that we stay with family, and have to park on the street with no way to charge, so anywhere I find to charge is going to be a time suck while I wait. I’m in no hurry to change over to an EV, but eventually there’s going to be a time whether I like it or not.
with Ultium, if the Equinox has a similar sized battery to the Lyriq, you can get 76 miles in 10 minutes.
And I can get 400 miles in half that time with an ICE vehicle.
Then you and all the other anti-electric should just keep your current vehicle, and stop whining about BEV’s. GM and all the other auto makers still make plenty of ICE vehicles to choose from, and if BEV’s are as bad as you and the other cry babies make them out to be they won’t sell and the auto makers will drop them from production.
What the hell are you worried about?
Wow so cool every hour an 10 minutes I’ll have to stop for 10 minutes to charge my car gm is innovating this is so cool. Thanks for the info nebby
Grab one of the PHEVs available if you want to check it out – our SUV goes 42 miles pure electric (if you want) and the 2.5 liter 4 cylinder kicks in when you want more power (302 horses combined ) and has AWD. Combined MPG on first two tanks of fuel has been 68.6 mpg (some days running errands locally the engine never turns in). Has given us a feel for EV but with the gas engine still there
Range complaints are the EV equivalent of HP ratings in ICE vehicles.
This is not the first electric powered Equinox. GM built in 2009 over 100 fuel cell models with a battery and an electric motor. I have the original ” 2009 Chevrolet Fuel Cell Equinox Owner Manual” . And I own a 2009 Chevy Equinox 2LT model..
Finally an Equinox Design I really like!!
If they don’t overprice it (and that’s a big if), GM finally shows an EV which may actually sell in volume.
I kind of like it personally. And I’m still not sold on my next car being an EV. But I will say this and Silverado are well designed vehicles both exterior…but perhaps more importantly, the interiors. So glad to see GM avoid the horizontal screens of Tesla, RAM and Mach E. I don’t want to feel like someone plopped an IPad on my dash. These designs are so much better integrated. Kudos GM for that.
I’m still a few years away from my next vehicle purchase. There may not be any ICE vehicles left by then, so it’s nice to see designs and performance I’m beginning to like. Now pricing will be the next crucial component. Keep these EVs within range of their ICE counterparts and we’re good. But this $100k first edition nonsense needs to stop. I know it will in time as more offerings are created and the economy of scale reduces production costs, but until then I can’t afford to move to these versions.
Not sure if this is just me, but this seems a bit confusing. This looks nothing like the regular – ice – Nox. Is this the new gen 4 Nox? I can see how this will be very confusing for most consumers. A lot of selling vehicles is name recognition. GM is notorious for ditching names where folks have a hard time following the bouncing ball – is it a Cavalier or Cobalt or Cruze? Now models that look nothing alike with the same name.
Using an already in use nameplate, this gets lost in the shuffle. GM has lost out on grabbing mainstream headlines by blending this into already existing model. They could have made a real splash by pulling out one of their fabled names? Let’s just hope when Buick finally comes out with a new EV they use Electra not Envision EV (unless it’s an EV version of the ice Envision).
Not a fan of the narrow LED front light bar – please bring back more traditional headlights.
As much as I am glad to see GM expand their EV offerings; their leadership in pushing the envelope with electrification, the Equinox EV’s styling does not impress.
It is too busy. Creases and bulges on the side that reflect light and shadow in a haphazard fashion. A mishmash of horizontal and angled lines up front. Too many elements that fight each other for attention rather than working together towards a unified, well-defined statement.
Very nice design, but we’ll see about material/build quality and real world range. Evidently, on Musk gets away with simple materials and design in his interiors and questionable build quality.
Where is the charging port located?
Will this make the Chicago Auto Show with the Blazer and Silverado?