Corvette Brand To Expand To Electric Sedan, Crossover In 2025
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The Corvette is destined to go electric – that much should be obvious given GM’s plans to go full EV across its passenger vehicle lineup by 2035, as well as comments made by GM President Mark Reuss earlier this year. Now, new details on the upcoming all-electric Corvette products have come to light.
Let’s start by briefly summarizing the story thus far. As GM Authority reported in August, GM is considering the development of a new all-electric Corvette sedan to rival sporty models like the Porsche Taycan and Tesla Model S, most likely with the GM BEV3 architecture providing the underpinnings, as well as next-generation GM Ultium batteries and GM Ultium drive motors for motivation. GM Authority even went so far as to render what this forthcoming battery-powered Corvette might look like.
Corvette EV sedan rendering
What’s more, GM Authority reported over the summer that GM was also considering the development of a new all-electric Corvette crossover, a model which would rival products like the Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo, as well as the upcoming all-electric Porsche flagship set to slot in above the Porsche Caynne and Porsche Macan.
So then, the current situation is as follows – at this point, it should be more than obvious that the C8 Corvette Stingray is nothing short of a runaway success. What’s more, demand for the C8 Corvette Z06 is so high, GM will be filling orders for many years to come. Further C8 variants like the E-Ray, ZR1, and Zora are all on the way, and while an all-electric replacement for the C8 is coming, it won’t arrive until much later than anything else mentioned here.
Corvette EV sedan rendering
Once the new C8 variants are rolled out, GM is expected to launch a new Corvette sub-brand around the 2025 calendar year. The new sub-brand will consist of a coupe-like four-door Corvette sedan model, as well as a new Corvette crossover, both of which will utilize GM Ultium batteries and GM Ultium drive motor tech.
These new Corvette EV products will stay true to the nameplate by offering sexy styling and a high-performance driving experience. What’s more, the switch to EVs (and likely the BEV3 platform) will enable designers to rethink Corvette’s proportions. After all, BEV3 is high flexible, as evidenced by BEV3-based products like the Cadillac Lyriq, Cadillac Celestiq, and Chevy Equinox EV – all very different vehicle indeed.
Corvette crossover rendering
Additionally, Car and Driver now reports that the upcoming Corvette EV products will incorporate a patented cooling system for the batteries, ultra-efficient inverters, an 800-volt electrical system with 350-kW charging capabilities, a two-speed transmission, four-wheel steering, and a torque vectoring system.
While the purists are undoubtedly squirming at the though of an all-electric sedan or crossover bearing the Corvette nameplate, the motivation behind the strategy is simple – it’s all about money. The Porsche Cayenne, for example, proved just how profitable a sports car brand could be when applied to another segment, and now, even Ferrari is getting in on the action.
All told, we want to know – do you welcome these upcoming changes for the Corvette brand? Let us know your thoughts by voting in the poll below, and remember to subscribe to GM Authority for more Chevy Corvette news, Chevy news, GM electric vehicle news, and around-the-clock GM news coverage.
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To Compete with Lamborghini Urus .. it will sell a lot, it is what USA next generations people wants, Corvette Brand
The more Important is… we all know GM duplicated all Design Studios over the world, asked several new designers
Today received a negative attempt with Advanced California Design Studio, they said there are a lot of people better than me… well, of course for us California is like going to Planet Mars, at other side of Planet Earth.. but it is ok. Tried also to find out where is the new Design Studio at the England Moon, very far also, but ok, this negative note has to come yet. Most here in those digital magazines complain about the products, but GM decided, sorry, I can not help the products to be with better shapes, it was the north american decision, your administrations, it is your way
Hope all of you who applied at a position as designer with car companies like GM to have better luck than me. We continue to stay in Germany appreciating your world of cars, ships, vehicles, aircrafts, and all of projects which are still to come . Me, Wife & Cat continues to be happy, easy life and small comparing but ok, we have our fun
Please do the dislikes as usual !
Word.
Is this an AI or just someone writing using nothing but keyboard suggestions?
By Yoda, dee Corvette ESL here introduced.
Succeeding and destroying the Corvette name and Marquee I guess I’ll be looking elsewhere for my next car inst been great having a C6 Z06 last true American made Corvette since then more European anyway of course continuing the pipe dream of electric vehicles good luck you’re going to need it plus the things hideous on top of that
I mostly understood this after a second reading. Apologies….I now believe you are a real person.
So in essence the C7 will really be the last true corvette. Yes I understand the mid engine was always the vision. However, the writing is on the wall. This is not part of the true genuine evolution of the car. This is pure greed.
If anything, this opens the door to a cab rearward GT returning to the lineup.
The mid engine was the only,y way to make the car perform better. They ran out of electronic tricks.
The sedan and Su is a cheap money grab by fooling some with using the Corvette name.
If any of these models are done correctly they would do just fine with a Chevelle or Nomad name.
Lambo and Porsche needs the volume as they are brands with low volume sports cars. Chevy is a large volume mfg with a sports car.
To me this is like Olds clapping Cutlass on three different models and it fooled no one.
Even the Mach E is really not a Mustang.
To me this is just a risk to name equity.
But as the mid engine goes it was no more a change as the C1 to the C2. Guys back then complained no truck.
$100k Chevrolet Chevelle? I’m not seeing that at all. Keep those names handy if cars become more popular in the mainstream.
If it is a $100K sedan it should be a Cadillac.
Keep in mind Corvette is a Model of a car not a brand. Porsche is a brand not a model of a car. They do not call their SUV a 911 do they. The Lambo SUV is not a Sian Is it?
“Corvette” is whatever Chevrolet/GM says it is. It’s been a model. Now, it’s going to be a sub-brand. We can debate whether we like it, not if it’s going to happen or not.
Corvette is an American Legacy, assaulting this is blasphemy…. EV is the trinket of this generation and America or the world for that matter will not be able to support 10% Electric cars and trucks with the grid plans of the next 50 years.
Really mid engine was the only way to make it faster look who’s at the top of the Nuremberg ring records front engine rear wheel drive car don’t blame the layout blame the engineering
Porsche is the fastest and if memory serves it is a mid engine.
Indeed…the C7 will be remembered as the last of the old generation But, we said the same when the C1 morphed, etc, etc. Yes, money is at the root of this “evil.” However, if the brand can find avenues to earn more money to further America’s sports car, so be it.
If GM follows the current naming trend of competitors, we will see the brand adopt appropriate names differentiating the electric boxes from the real sports car. I never look at a Cayman and think it is a real Porsche…it is what it is, a quick transport box with a well known brand name that suggests it is a “real” Porsche.
We are thankful that GM kept the brand alive long enough to envision and actually build the C8 which is not only the best value in the “super car” field, but the only moderately attainable mid-engine that can be a daily driver…almost.
A Corvette EV Sedan and a Corvette Crossover? The last great name plate for GM that will go to sh!t. First the Nova, next the Impala, then the Monte Carlo, then the Blazer, next up Camaro and now Corvette. Sad!!!
Oh boy…. Another tesla Gm that’s very ugly
Read an article about this 2 days ago online from Car and Driver. Again on carscoops yesterday. Why is GMA so late for this one?
Anyhow, I don’t care one bit what many will say about GM needing to have a Corvette “brand” just like Porsche and others. NO THEY DON”T! Porsche doesn’t have a full line of vehicles within 4 different brands. I’d love for someone to help me understand how producing a 4 dr sedan under the Corvette banner makes any sense when they won’t give true sedan brands like Buick a single freeking car. How many of them will they sell per year, 10 or 20,000? At least the rendering of the 4 dr Vette looks nice, but they could easily produce a nice looking sedan for Chevrolet just like that without whoring out the Corvette name. No matter, the final straw is sticking a Corvette name on an SUV. Totally stupid.
From what it sounds like, GM isn’t going to build a sedan and SUV that have Corvette styling. They are going to build serious high performance vehicle$. They believe can’t do that under Chevrolet or Buick, and I agree. Could under Cadillac V, but that doesn’t seem to be their focus right now. The two speed transmission scoop made me feel a lot less skeptical of this plan.
100%
I own a V-series Cadillac, but after peaking around 2009+ with the world beating CTS-V sedan/coupe/wagon, V-series has become a throwback to RWD, manual, track-ready vehicles. Fun cars, but easily outclassed on the street by other performance brands and $50K EVs that pass you like you’re standing still at a stoplight.
GM simply needs a dedicated performance brand for more than just 2-seaters. Chevrolet isn’t it and Cadillac is focused on luxury and a bit slow-moving on performance.
Corvette works — and to those thinking a broader lineup will kill the brand, I say yes, the same way it killed Porsche, who can offer over a dozen more varieties of 911s than it used to.
N400: “and to those thinking a broader lineup will kill the brand”
It’s not the Corvette “brand” that will be at stake. It will erode yet more sales from other GM brands/models. Just another case of GM cutting off it’s nose in spite of it’s face. But I will say this. If this move means Cadillac will abandon the performance market and go back to being a luxury brand with it’s focus on smooth, quiet, isolated rides and a more luxury interior, then that will be a good thing.
Exactly right.
Cadillac lacks a strong mission to build performance vehicles and is a brand known for luxury. Move high performance vehicles to a brand focused on performance. In the end there will be more money to build more of what everyone posting here wants instead of begging and borrowing.
You can bet that Corvette development is reliant on Chevrolet truck sales today, which means the next gen of bean counters, who don’t see its halo value, might easily kill it.
These Corvette models aren’t going to steal from existing GM brands. They’re going to build a Taycan, not a Tesla.
I agree with you on Cadillac. I’m sure GM will throw some money at the V-team eventually, but I’d prefer they aim for BMW Alpina rather than BMW M.
Yeh that’s what GM needs, another brand.
Harley Earl never intended it to be a committee car. Yeah, I know that was pre- 1953.
Bill Mitchell and Zora Arkus- Duntov fought the ” hands -off- it” fight with GM brass and bean counters for decades
They’re likely all rolling in their graves.
Read the comments above from the purists … knew the inertia is great, but we are entering new times, forget the auto industry we had we know… it is a new pioneers times … we really do not care here to where auto industry goes. As the same Auto Industry do not care to us, So Remember some 7 years ago in 2014, this or your GM went Bankruptcy, so what disappears now, it is totally a bonus some things survived. Ok, go Polish Apple, Marry Barra, you are the greatest ever, never saw a so intelligent and smart woman like you with a great team, funny kkkkk love you
The design teams have been on point as of late so I have faith we will get the best looking models possible.
What about a Corvette Pick Up ? Maybe GMAuthority can cut this yellow off and revert into a Corvette El Camino
i really don’t see the point in getting mad at this point.
I agree, its a stupid AF idea, but I don’t run GM, the idiots do….
gm seems so directionless these days…
I think the SUV will be competing with the future Porsche Macan EV rather than their future flagship SUV. My understanding is that the latter will be rather large and maybe unPorsche looking.
As a GM Performance enthusiast and owner of such vehicles, I would have no problem with a Corvette CUV if it were ICE. Porsche and Lamborghini have both done it. Ferrari is even joining the party.
However, EV Corvette products don’t do anything for me. Sorry GM, you can keep them.
An electric Buick sedan would make more sense, revive the brand ?
I’m fine with a Corvette brand if it means Cadillacs will become truly roomy and comfortable again instead of imitating cramped BMWs. But I don’t know what gives GM the confidence they can sell EVs in large enough numbers to make money.
They can NOT call them a CORVETTE. Call them something else. As a previous person said they will be watering down the name of the iconic 2 seat SPORTS CAR. VERY SAD.
What’s next, hatchback or wagon?? LOL.
Once Ferrari did it, it was inevitable. As legendary GM CEO Alfred P. Sloan said, “we’re not in business to make cars, we’re in business to make money.”
Just keep pumping out and improving the remarkable sports car that offers supercar performance at a price a successful working guy can afford. As to the rest of the cars under that name, we’ll let those who don’t care buy them, while the rest of us ignore them.
No wonder the prices of C-6 and C-7s have sky-rocketed. Enthusiasts know these are the LAST real corvettes.
Yeah, the mid-engine Vettes are not real…honest. If Zora had his way, we would have seen a mid-engine “CERV” back in 1960. Would that mean only Blue Flame/Power Glides & C2’s were “real” Vettes?
Truth be known, every generation Corvette was/is at the top of the attainable sports car field. The C 6 & C7 are wonderful examples which earned the title. The new de facto title-holder is the C8. It also justly holds the “legitimacy” title as it can actually go head to head with the world’s best at triple the price…Just try to catch one with previous generations…. Happy Motoring!
Just like the new electric Mustang, the electric Corvette is in the same category. UGLY and has lost the true essence of a Corvette. I have a brand new (2023) Corvette, and you can bet your bottom dollar, that I will be keeping mine, and not purchasing another new one.
Bwa-ha-ha-ha ! Really ???? What GM moron made this decision ? One person or one of their “committees ?
598, it all passes over Mary’s desk…..
Regardless, this would be an eye-opening way to reintroduce the Pontiac brand.