Chevrolet has unveiled the all-new 2024 Chevy Blazer EV, dropping cover on a fresh battery-powered offering for the midsize electric crossover segment. In addition to revealing the new civilian Chevy Blazer EV lineup, Chevrolet also debuted the new Chevy Blazer EV Police Pursuit Vehicle (PPV), set to go on patrol by the 2024 calendar year.
The new Chevy Blazer EV PPV is based on the range-topping Chevy Blazer EV SS trim level, and features the largest GM Ultium battery pack available to the nameplate. The power will reach the ground through either the rear wheels, or all four wheels via a dual-motor all-wheel drive system. Additionally, the Chevy Blazer EV PPV will feature high-performance Brembo brakes up front.
Inside the cabin, the specially developed Chevy Blazer EV PPV offers an interior designed specifically for police officers, with a good deal of room available for emergency equipment and gear, as needed.
“The possibilities for the Blazer EV’s commercial and law enforcement applications are almost endless,” said vice president of GM Fleet, Ed Peper. “Along with zero-tailpipe-emissions performance, it reduces the number and frequency of certain maintenance requirements typically associated with fleet vehicles.”
In addition to offering the Chevy Blazer EV for law enforcement duty, GM says the crossover can also be used for fleet and commercial customers like pharmaceutical, rental, and more.
Notably, the Chevy Blazer EV PPV may have a direct rival from Ford, namely the Ford Mustang Mach-E. As reported by our sister publication, Ford Authority, Michigan State Police (MSP) announced in September that a 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E police pilot vehicle has become the very first all-electric vehicle to pass the departments police pilot vehicle tests. Ford has not formally announced plans to build a police-specific version of the Mustang Mach-E, but at least one U.S. police department and several U.K.-based law enforcement agencies have expressed interest in such an offering.
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A police commissioner in the UK says his force is struggling to fight crime due to the electric vehicles in its fleet.
The Gloucestershire Constabulary has the UK’s largest electric vehicle fleet with no less than 21 per cent of its 435 vehicles being EVs, consisting of 66 Nissan Leafs and nine Nissan NV200 vans. However, Police and Crime Commissioner for Gloucestershire, Chris Nelson, says many officers have had to deal with the EVs going flat while on duty.
“I’ve heard lots of problems with officers driving around in electric vehicles trying to find recharging facilities, running out of puff and then having to get another vehicle,” Nelson said as part of a recent police and crime panel. “Although I fully understand and support climate controls, my first priority is to fight crime.”
Ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!
Nissan Leaf EV has a range of 149. This is double.
Thanks for your insight though.
Mr. Mike – Lets see how far LAPD goes on a charge during an 8 – 10 hour shift in the middle of summer. Throw in a high speed chase or two and you will really see the range go down. You EV Bootlickers always crack me up.
Average day for LAPD officer – one or two high speed chases are really going to hamper the range. Gawd you can’t make this stuff up…actually, it seems like you make lots of stuff up.
Please, continue to enlighten us with your vast knowledge and hypotheticals.
Hmm…. I’m wondering how running your AC all day with affect your EV range?
The problem is there’s two models of police car use. In some departments, the car is pooled and handed off directly between shifts, and therefore in use 24/7. That’s problematic for EVs, even with fast charging, as now the whole fleet is being recharged in one tiny window. (With a gas car, you give them a fuel card and they refuel as needed when getting coffee.)
I believe this is the most common model in the UK, and that’s exactly where they’re running into issues.
The other extreme is where a single car is assigned to a single officer, where often the officer can take the car home. This is more appropriate for EVs.
Police officers here take their vehicles home from what I’ve seen, or they sit in the lot and they pick them up.
EITHER WAY, no one said it fits all uses for all people. Some people are just so afraid of change and things they don’t understand they try to look intelligent by throwing shade. What they don’t realize is that it their extreme hypotheticals don’t make them look intelligent but desperate.
Coos sit with air conditioning on in those heavy police uniforms . Cut down the stated miles by 50%
Not quite. I definitely agree that EVs have their limitations and I’m not looking to get one anytime soon, but a typical EV uses about 10% of the battery for comfort under normal driving. If you look at typical usage for an EV averaging around 45mph (of course it will vary widely based on type of driving), that’s about 5-6 hours of driving for an EV with a advertised 250 mile range battery. If you calculate that into a 12 hour shift with the AC on the entire time, you would essentially double the percentage used to cool the vehicle to 20% meaning only 80% would be used for driving. That would reduce the range by 11-12% over what the norm would be. I think the bigger factors affecting the range will be the type of driving (I imagine police vehicles will be driven harder which will greatly reduce the range) and battery degradation over time. I agree that they may not be a great fit for police at this time, but I just don’t think the AC is the problem. I actually think they will be less effected by AC during “idle” situations a lot less than an ICE vehicle.
Fuzzy math. A 20% reduction in battery capacity equals an11-12% range reduction.
In general, cooling and heating causes about a 30% – 33% average decrease in driving range.
EV cars do not make sense for law enforcement.
I watched a high speed pursuit on a YouTube channel that a police officer was chasing a gas engine powered – I think a suv. The officer was using a Tesla model two or model 3. About the only issue the officer was having was going to fast LOL so he just stayed a ways back once to far back he just put his foot on the go pedal and before you knew it he was right back up with the person trying to get away. After the pursuit on gone on a while the officer was questioning how much longer his battery would last before being depleted and how much longer the chase might last. He just radioed his dispatcher to radio for another Tesla to take part in the pursuit. It was so strange not hearing any engine but road noise – siren if I recall the chase became to dangerous so the pursuit was called off. Point is a police department it might seem would have to have back up cars or like in the case another officers EV vehicles batteries were still capable of taking
over the chase. But in larger cities EV vehicles might work fine.
I am 78 and I have some dementia so please forgive me if I seem confused or not making sense.
Have a Great Weekend and Thanks
In your state of dementia, are you sure that you didn’t dream this little episode?
I try. Just showing my disdain for EV’S. He brought dementia to the discussion, not me. I suffer from things as well, but I don’t broadcast them to the world.
If you know the guy has health issues, why kick the guy? I have health issues as well BUT I do not use them as an excuse to insult others… I do not like EV either… but that does not give one license to be an idiot to someone who may be having a cognitive episode.
Cooper, no problem with what you said… longevity of batteries could be a real concern…
Have a great day…
Look in places like California they are going to require departments to buy these things. So if GM can sell these yo them more power to em pun intended.
Be sides cope in California are not allowed to arrest people or in many cases chase anyone anymore.
Look it is a opportunity to sell more cars to departments that are forced to buy them and they have little to choose from.
My Diesel Mercedes will gladly outrun these police EV’s lololololol.
700-800 mile range ftw.
Yep, agree. I may not be able to out accelerate them or out run them but I’ll bet my 1500 diesel would win the pit maneuver trials. And before the flames REALLY get going, I’m not advocating any of these things, just stating an opinion.
I detailed a Chevy Volt today, what a boring golf cart feel when I drove it!
Is that actually the case though? Because everybody I know who have a Volt along with those who have reviewed that car have said otherwise.
The buyers were considering Priuses, so no point in making it any faster than what they’d buy otherwise.
Besides, a Volt is a hybrid, and in order to make it work, it has two separate electric motors and a transmission, so it loses a lot of the EV benefits. (The innovation with the Volt and the prior 2-mode hybrid is to use the electric motors in diesel-electric locomotive mode to act as a transmission for the gas engine.) The Volt, being a PHEV also has to drag around a complete gas and electric powertrain.
Did the owner put it in Valet mode? Maybe! Those cars are pretty quick to 100mph
did you bring your clubs?
If the police departments are going to use these Blazers, they should be built in the USA, not Mexico since they are purchased with tax payer money. I Believe all of the Blazers are made in Mexico?
Wrong, they are built in S Korea.
The Trailblazer is built in Korea, the Blazer is assembled in Mexico.
The Blazer EV will be assembled in the USA!
Memo to criminals…Before robbing a store, a bank, or stealing tools out of Home Depot, ensure your getaway vehicle is fully fueled so you can outlast a police E.V. in a chase…
So Dan, you like criminals. Who knew. Besides I don’t think criminals are reading GMauthority.
LMAOOOOO… i have family that are cops and 300 miles are eat up in a couple hours trolling our county’s. Going in to swamp EVs 3-4 times a shift is a sh_tty way to maintain order knowing you have so many miles to drive back to department to swap for charged EV before the battery is dead… Not like an ICE, pull into a gas station and refill in 5 mins rather than having to have enough battery to drive back to the station. Even if charging station exists, hiw much time is needed to charge the EV…oops, bad has an ICE get away car…buy buy cop in EV…
Stupid for big surveillance areas. Not bad for a small city where you can park on a street corner – eat your doughnuts and drink your coffee waiting for crime only for the DA to release the perk…in the same day. So why waste the EV energy while you eat doughnuts and sandwiches all day.
Stupid…
300 mi in a couple of hours? Do they Patrol at 150 mph. Not only can’t you spell or form a proper sentence you can’t do simple arithmetic either.
Not only that but his cop family has been outed that they eat doughnuts and sandwiches all day. When do they have time to troll around. He also doesn’t know that EVs don’t waste energy by idling.
Put DC fast chargers at the local donut shop! Problem solved.
Bill, Mexico buys all of their Police Pursuit vehicles from Canada or the US. Chargers and back in the time, Taurus Police Interceptors.
And I am sure they pay them with taxpayers money.
Why is it that this topic is brought up constantly? If that is an issue, then the Law Enforcement Offices should buy Lyriqs or $300K Celestiqs or Silverados EV, all made in the US. And the Canadians should be chasing bandits with Brightdrops 600.
C’mon. Turn the page.
The problem is the US is a far bigger market than Mexico. This causes a huge trade imbalance. It’s not just whether somebody is buying something, it’s how much.
This is exhausting. People who think they know what police need (EV’s) hate to listen from the people that do the job when they say those options WILL NOT WORK. First, let’s talk capital expense. You pay once for a vehicle and run it either until it miles out or ages out. Many places are 100K miles / 15 years. You know what you will need to do during that lifetime? Pay another CapEx to swap the batteries on these things. So have fun spending (Now) 30-40K for the vehicle, and then another 10-20K halfway through the life of the vehicle. Didn’t have to do that with a Crown Vic, and don’t have to do it with Tahoes and Chargers.
Let’s talk about low occurrence / high intensity operations. Days where the vehicle HAS to run 24/7 because that’s the mission. You WILL NOT have time to “charge” it and you CANNOT tell the public “we can’t respond because we got another two hours on the super charger.”
“It’ll just be for detective bureaus” Yeah because those people never have to run 24/7 during a major case.
“They can charge at their house overnight.” Works until those low occurrence / high intensity things occur. Also, you’re paying to install super chargers at people’s residences?
We haven’t even talked about natural disasters where resources are limited. Some people or jobs need ICE… stop trying to say otherwise.
I wonder if these will idle for an hour while the cop is in the donut shop.
You obviously know very little about EVs. Do research and educate yourself.
maybe some of these people this that an EV “idle” is the battery drain from all the added department accessories, including the air conditioning that would be on for the whole shift? We all know electric vehicles do not idle in the true sense but there is battery drain…
LOL, the bad guys will just wait until the end of the cop’s shift when the cruiser needs a charge to do the crime!