The all-new, second-generation Chevy Trax made its formal introduction for the 2024 model year, with the latest 2025 Chevy Trax introducing a few important changes over the initial 2024 Chevy Trax. Now, GM Authority has learned that one of those changes is the adoption of flex fuel capability, with the 2025 Chevy Trax capable of running on E85 fuel. Interestingly, the 2025 Chevy Trax’s engine has a diffrent RPO code, but power and torque figures are unchanged compared to those of the 2024 Chevy Trax.
For those readers who may be unaware, E85 is essentially a fuel composed of a blend of gasoline and ethanol, with a high ethanol content ranging between roughly 51 and 83 percent. The percentage of ethanol to gasoline varies by time of year and location. “Regular” gasoline usually contains roughly 10 percent ethanol. Vehicles capable of running E85 fuel are known as flex fuel vehicles. E85 fuel is becoming more and more common the U.S., predominantly in the Midwest where corn is used as the primary source of ethanol in E85 fuel production.
Some of the advantages of E85 over standard gasoline includes a higher resistance to engine knock, less dependence on foreign oil, and potentially fewer air pollutants. However, it’s possible that E85 could also provide fewer miles per gallon, and make it more difficult for a vehicle to start in colder climates. To note, E85 fuel is not recommended for vehicles not equipped with flex fuel capability.
Now, GM Authority has learned that the 2025 Chevy Trax will gain an engine capable of running on E85 fuel. The engine is the same turbocharged 1.2L I3 LIH gasoline unit found under the hood of the 2024 Chevy Trax, while output figures remain the same at 137 horsepower at 5,000 rpm and 162 pound-feet of torque at 2,500 rpm. However, the new engine will also carry RPO code LBP, indicating its flex fuel capability. The new flex-fuel-capable engine will be equipped as standard across the 2025 Chevy Trax trim level lineup.
As a reminder, the second-generation Chevy Trax rides on the GM VSS-F vehicle set, while production takes place at the GM Changwon plant in South Korea.
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E85 needs to go away it’s hard on older engines and is not needed.
Trax probably will be the next mainstream fleet/government vehicle, thus adding the flex fuel option for them.
E85 can only be run in flex fuel vehicles or vehicles that have been set up to run E85 so added an alcohol sensor and stainless fuel lines and E85 rated injectors.
When you speak of “older vehicles” it sounds like you are more referring to ethanol in fuel period so E10 and E15 fuels.
Do not buy a trax there is no parts available been waiting 6 months for a windshield and General Motors does not give a damn about nobody so don’t buy a trax can’t drive it so it sit there please don’t buy it
Perhaps if this vehicle was built in the United States there would be less of an issue. Imports-even captive ones- have always had challenges with repair parts procurement.
If it was built here, it’d cost $30K, base. Thanks UAW!
So your bad experience should dictate what everyone else does? If that’s the way it works, no one would ever buy anything.
Chevrolet has a sales winner with Trax. It’s an affordable station wagon but called a crossover. Kinda funny. Reminds me of a reimagined 80s Caviar wagon.
They should of added the trailblazer 1.3 in it for a few more power
They should have added AWD and the 2.5LCV with VVL.
LCV is gone. They aren’t going to re-tool to produce an engine that hasn’t been used since 2016 in the Chevy Malibu and 2020 in the Buick Envision.
Didn’t gm have trouble with flex fuel engines before, something like don’t continuously use that fuel .
I love E85 as an option. It does a good job cleaning out your fuel system, for towing vehicles, it’s nieve having an extra 5% power, and the cost is enough that it doesn’t help or hurt.
E85 costs less, has less energy, and gets lower fuel mileage. There’s no advantage other than the minute amount of less oil needed. It does not save money, and alcohol production is subsidized by the federal government.
E85 and E15 are both cheaper than regular gas. E15 is a dollar less. You can’t tell me that doesn’t make a difference. I ordered a 3500HD PRO with the E85 option. It was an extra $100. A no brainer. Waited six months for it to come off of restriction. Interestingly, it’s only offered on the entry level model. Virtually nobody is offering E85 at this point. Doesn’t bother me. I’ll take a $30 savings on a fill-up any day, even if I lose a few mpg. Cleaner, cooler burning gas works for me.
A dollar less? Wow, that would make it $1.59 here. I haven’t seen E-85 here in years. I guess gas is too cheap and not enough E-85 vehicles here for it to make much difference. Mileage and power goes down so you have to fill up more often. Sounds like an inconvenient wash to me.
Never seen E-15. You must be in a state with super high gas prices.
I live in central Virginia. Prices recently:
Regular 87 – $3.03
E85 – $2.43
E15 – $1.99
I expect a savings of $0.60 to $1.00 more than offsets the lesser efficiency of regular gas. Will know soon. Truck is being delivered next week.
Someone apparently doesn’t understand ethanol at all. “Regular” gas at 87 octane is actually e10 nearly everywhere. It’s 90%gasoline and 10% ethanol to satisfy federal mandates. Compared to true pure gas, sold for off road uses as “rec gas”, your e10 pump gas is less energy dense and has a tendency to create water issues in the fuel systems. It does however provide some emissions benefit thanks to the oxygenation effect of ethanol. Not enough to offset the additional pollution emitted in producing the ethanol but……..
E15 is coming into use in several locations and is 85% gasoline. It takes all the problems of e10 “regular” and makes it 50%worse. No way is e15 priced below e85.
E85 is primarily ethanol. It generally returns horrendous mpg. Unless it is priced around 50% the cost of gasoline, most folks are losing money running e85 on a $/mile basis.
E85 does have potential for high performance in vehicles with an aftermarket tune optimized for the use of alcohol, but such vehicles do NOT give good fuel economy. They burn prodigious quantities of fuel, often requiring larger injectors and fuel pumps to deliver the needed flow. These vehicles are not flex fuel capable, they run ONLY on e85.
Ordering a hd pickup and expecting to save money using e85 is total folly. Claiming e15 is $1 less than e10 is baloney.
Yup, pretty much what I said, it’s not an economic savings. Just an inconvenience.
What’s to understand about ethanol mixed fuels? Anyone who bothers to look at the info on the pump can see the ethanol percentage. Don’t need some know-it-all pontificating on here. And yes, ethanol mix fuels are less efficient (15-25%), but they burn cleaner and cooler, neither of which is a bad thing. As for the price difference, Mr. Know-it-all obviously hasn’t bought gas at a Sheetz in central VA, where E15 is in fact currently $1.04 less than “regular” E10 87 octane. Happy to send a screen shot of the pump prices to anyone who doubts it. If it’s folly to spend $100 on the flex fuel option, so be it. Three tankfulls and it will have paid for itself. And the ability to run different fuels works for me too. To each their own. So save your hostility for someone who gives a crap about your opinion.
Had a 14 silvy when they all came E85 capable, when gas shot up to $4 E85 was half the price and that was the only time I used it. Fuel economy dropped 15 to 20%.
I have never noticed more than 20 cent difference between E10 and E15 and I live near the corn and ethanol plants.
E85 is popular as a cheap performance fuel in turbo ls swaps and high compression ratio engines.
Yeah, I live in the middle of the grain belt too where we grow tons of corn and produce lots of ethanol, but I can’t remember when I last saw ethanol gas for sale. I suppose no one here cares about it so we ship the ethanol to other states. With regular gas in the $2.50 range, the minute savings may not be worth the hassle of stopping more often to fill up.
What the Trax needs is the 1.3 liter engine. The 1.2 doesn’t make enough HP to motivate this size vehicle very well at speeds above 55 MPH.
Are you speaking from experience, or making assumptions? Asking for a friend…
20 million flex fuel vehicles were sold by GM, Ford & Chrysler and later they systematically
shut them down. These automakers are never interested in selling any alternative fueled car.
Just wondering why GM is reintroducing this. Also if MY-2024 is a FFV, why is it not advertised
as as FFV.
I am driving a non flex fuel vehicle in E50 for last 6 years and its running fine. In fact in Brazil
all gasoline sold has 27.5% Ethanol as standard.
Better buy a flex fuel vehicle and wherever E85 is 25% cheaper than gasoline, buy it as its home
made and clean.
https://fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=sbs&id=46450
I have not noticed E85 25% or more cheaper in a long time.
Tinkering already? It just left the gate.