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Take A Tour Of The Chevy Equinox EV Door Handles: Video

The Chevy Equinox EV is Chevrolet’s budget-friendly all-electric crossover, offering modern GM Ultium propulsion technology but at an affordable price point. Interestingly, the Equinox EV exterior design reflects the Bow Tie brand’s latest all-electric styling cues, plus a set of flush-mounted door handles. Now, GM Authority is getting hands-on with the following video overview, providing a quick rundown on how the 2024 Chevy Equinox EV door handles operate.

A door handle on the 2024 Chevy Equinox EV.

Hosted by GM Authority Executive Editor Alex Luft, the video highlights the particulars of the Equinox EV’s door handles, which offer a blend of aesthetics and functionality. During normal operation, the 2024 Chevy Equinox EV door handles sit flush with the body. However, when the vehicle key fob is placed near the doors, the door handles pop out, folding outwards and presenting a lever that the user can then physically grab.

However, another step is required to actually unlock the door. As Luft points out, users are required to touch a specific part of the back of the door handle to unlock the doors. The front door handles unlock the vehicle with a touch, while the rear door handles do not have this feature. Notably, the handles can also be deployed manually by pressing them or using the key fob to unlock or lock the vehicle, once again, as Luft demonstrates in the video.

Check out the full video right here:

Per previous GM Authority coverage, deliveries of the 2024 Chevy Equinox EV are underway now, with 2LT, 3LT, and 3RS variants expected to arrive in dealers first. The 1LT trim level is expected in dealers later this year. Both front-wheel drive and all-wheel drive configurations will be offered, with pricing for the 1LT starting at under $35,000.

As a reminder, the Chevy Equinox EV rides on the GM BEV3 platform, while production takes place at the GM Ramos Arizpe plant in Mexico.

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Jonathan is an automotive journalist based out of Southern California. He loves anything and everything on four wheels.

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  1. Good luck in an ice storm

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    1. So you haver never had the other handle types freeze up? Yep!

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  2. Another brilliant oddity that no one asked for. Will do nothing but break.

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  3. what a load of crap. the way it’s going with ev’s makes me think that it’s the tail wagging the dog. i want nothing to do with ev . it just doesn’t interest me. there are not enough charging stations in my mind. and what will happen with all the future dead battery carcasses when these vehicles come to their end of the line?

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    1. The batteries can be recycled to some extent.

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  4. It seems a much better dedign than what the Tesla cars have. There are too many naysayers here that are envious.

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  5. I like the design but would I buy one now…I don’t know if GM was still installing the charging station in your house for a small fee then probably but like Stanley said there aren’t enough charging stations to go on a long trip back and forth to work for a half hour each day fine but the what do in the winter? There are to many questions yet it’s not like an ICE car where you can get in it in the winter warm it up and go I would rather see the hybrid equinox being built here that I would definitely seriously consider.

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  6. Chasing Tesla with silly gimmicks is a waste. Use off the shelf handles and lower the price.

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    1. Your a waste everything you comment is negative maybe people like these door handles I do it’s something different how much lower should it it almost matches a ICE equinox price… unless your talking about the Chinese slave labor yeah their cars are cheap but those poor people work all kinds of crazy hours and I was reading the other that their national pension plan might dry up for future generations. First it was Korean now Chinese we will give in watch they even undercut the Korean cars but how good is the quality!? Don’t worry your right to work BS states will give them land to build a plant and screw over everybody Japanese, Americans, European if Korean cars…that’s ok you can pick up your Chinese food in your egg roll car lol!

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  7. Just something else to break. Probably not a good idea in the northern part of the country. Where shi-t freezes.

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  8. True Ken I didn’t think of that well that could be heated. I don’t know in the 50s and 60s car companies tried all kinds of different things yeah some it didn’t work but at least they got an A for effort. If we want new technology we have to give it a chance heck I would even like regular door handles heated so the snow just melts off also you don’t risk damage because ice get in between the two sections of regular door handles it’s happened to me. I’m saying this could be done mirrors are heated so why not the door handles it can work with the heat system in the car. Maybe it’s because I am 45 or maybe it’s because I like new technology I want to see new things being it on. Anyway they said Tesla style we don’t even know how they work or if this even making it to production models it could be a tease.

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  9. Ok I finally watched the video that different then a Tesla door handle on the Tesla the whole handle pops out this just kind of turns it’s neat. But if you can’t get over a door handle you have issues.

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    1. BELLO: That isn’t quite true. The Model 3 Tesla has similar handles to this. I just looked at one in the Tesla store at the mall tonight. But other Tesla’s do have slightly different ones. Either way, it’s all stupid overkill.

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  10. These door handles are silly at best and total overkill to try and be cool. Like several others have brought up, cold and snowy/icey climates may not be kind to these. On top of that, good luck in those same cold climates where people are wearing mittens or heavier gloves. On top of that, good luck getting any real type of hold on these if the vehicle is in an accident and you need to pull hard on the door handles. I know, I’ve been there and had to do that as a police officer. No only would you not be able to get a true grip on these, but they look as if they would break off and then what? On top of that, you now have one more mechanical function that is just one more (or 4 more) things to go wrong. Finally, when this vehicle is off and sitting but not locked, the handles stick out. At least that what they were doing on the one I saw at the dealership showroom floor last week and the sales guy told me that they stay out if not locked.

    Totally stupid and something I would not like. The handles on the Blazer EV and Bolt EV are much better.

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  11. I would buy an EV but the little things turn me off. For one it is the handles. Try it with winter gloves on? As others stated during an ice storm it’ll be glazed over. In an accident, how will rescue workers open the door? Current handles on ICE vehicles work just fine. Grab the handle push the button to unlock, pull.

    Another is why mostly black interiors. Those up north have no idea how hot the interior gets during summer days in the sunbelt. So hot that you can barely touch the steering wheel. It takes a huge amount of power to cool it down thereby shortening the range. Ok for northern states in the winter for heat.

    Why most have 19″ wheels? Hard to fine and expensive.

    EV’s seem to have given designers a free hand to do what they love, but form over function never works in the real world.

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  12. What happens when and if the battery is dead…12v I suppose it what it runs off of…how does one unlock the card manually? Did not see a key hole and if so where is it?

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  13. Just another thing I don’t like about EV’s. Not only are these an answer to a question no one asked they also dull down the side appearance of the vehicle, add unnecessary complexity and require power to function and worse will be an issue in freezing temps just like the Tesla’s. If these car manufacturers would concentrate on making reliable designs instead of trying to wow 18 year olds we would have so many more satisfied customers and higher reliability scores.

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  14. Tesla has strange door handles and their stock is work a lot, we want our stock to be worth a lot so we will also do strange door handles….

    If Tesla started installing a fresh hot deuce on the dash of the model 3……GM would be getting ready to squat.

    Hard to imagine this was the biggest industrial enterprise on the face of the planet at one point….

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