The 2025 Chevy Equinox EV debuts the all-electric crossover’s second model year, introducing a few important updates and changes. Interestingly, the 2025-model-year Equinox EV also marks the move to an Average Day Supply (ADS) dealer allocation model, GM Authority has learned. Deliveries for the all-electric Equinox began in the second quarter of this year.
For anyone who may be unfamiliar, the ADS dealer allocation model determines the number of vehicle units which a dealer will receive based on the number of days that said dealer takes to sell a given number of vehicles. If a dealer is able to quickly sell a particular model, the greater that dealer’s allocation from GM.
This differs from other allocation models, such as a model based on historic volume. As one may guess, the historic dealer allocation model is based on the volume of units which the dealer has sold – the higher the volume, the higher the allocation, with the pace in which those units sold not neccessarily playing a factor in the allocation as it does in an ADS model.
Notably, the ADS model is particularly beneficial for smaller dealers who may not have the capacity to sell a large volume of vehicles, but nonetheless manage to quickly sell units.
Sales for the Chevy Equinox EV are ramping up now, with a total of 1,013 units sold during Q2 of the 2024 calendar year. Deliveries for the 2024 Chevy Equinox EV began in May. The first new units to arrive were the 2RS and 2RS Launch Edition, with 2LT, 3LT, and 3RS models following later. The 1LT variant is expected later this year.
GM boasts that pricing for the new 2025 Chevy Equinox EV starts under $35,000, or, more specifically, $34,995 for the base-model LT FWD variant set to arrive later this year. Check out our previous coverage for more in-depth Chevy Equinox EV pricing information.
Under the skin, the Equinox EV rides on the GM BEV3 platform, with GM Ultium batteries and GM Ultium Drive motors providing motivation. Production takes place at the GM Ramos Arizpe plant in Mexico.
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Since they now only expect to sell one or two total.
They sold 2093 last quarter, with deliveries starting in the end of May, and they produced 20,067 of them through June.
It is not unthinkable they will top 10k sales this coming quarter.
Mines on order, so make that 3!!
Oh boy!
Maybe now dealers can actually make orders without having to “take” all the other vehicles GM is trying to ram down their throats. I went to the only 2 dealers near me and neither could order a 2025 (tried to order 4 times) because they don’t have room for all the other low-end models they’re forced to take before being “allowed” to order a vehicle that a paying customer actually wants. I wonder if Cadillac works the same. I’m done with Chevy now, but the Optiq is looking pretty promising, if it ever starts getting delivered.
Tom: I’m in my 28 the year in the auto business. Most of those were in actual sales and the last 8 in the fleet department where I work. In other words, I have experience in numerous different brands ways of allocations. I’ve personally experienced the woes of the “turn to earn” system where you only get vehicles if you sell. The idea behind it is fine, but the execution is terrible. Not all dealers in all locations can or will sell the same models in the same numbers or ways. I recall the Buick, Cadillac, GMC and Honda dealer I was at for nearly 13 years total. That dealer hated the GMC Canyon and refused to take any. Same with the 1992 to 1998 Buick Skylarks. Because of that, we didn’t sell many at all. So when it came time for a more popular model, we had trouble getting any since we didn’t sell enough of the others. And yet, a Buick/GMC dealer down the road sold a ton of those same models and they were much smaller than us. So customers were able to go into that tiny dealership and buy/order a very popular model when they came out.
Anyhow, no system if perfect, but there’s several different allocation systems out there and it depends on the brand as to how it works. For me, it’s gotten to where I just go online and find the dealer that has the car I want and then I reach out to the fleet or internet department to get my deal. I think this is a large part of why “dealer loyalty” is not like it used to be many years ago.
I always assumed cadillac worked on a ratio of 4-cylinder CT4s and XT4s per escalade, but I would think getting any EV would be just a matter of production capacity.
Funny we haven’t seen any articles from GMA on ultium battery and overall EV units. I did see that Honda is selling more Prologues than Chevy is selling blazers, so maybe you just need to get a Honda built by gm.
I was going to do that after GM jacked up the price of my reserved Blazer EV $10K and took CarPlay away, but then when I finally got to sit in a Prologue it was extremely uninspiring and uncomfortable. I hate the interior colors (especially accents) being forced on the Equinox EV, so I’m thinking the Optiq is going to be the next thing in my driveway. Lyriq is too big, too inefficient, and too expensive, but the dark interiors are quite nice. So far the Optiq looks very similar so should be a really nice environment. Was really considering a Lyriq hard because of the bigger battery (to help with home backup) and because it still supports CarPlay.
Lyriq also still has a button to turn it on and off, instead of that stupid automatic starting garbage and leaving the car on while you walk away, just assuming it will turn itself off and keep anyone else out of your car before it locks itself.
Yeah Bill, Agreed !
The Lyriq is nice…. Everyone seems to like the Lyriq (especially my family) better than I do, and I like it. It is somewhat inefficient, and they could have made the FRUNK (front-trunk area) usable – especially the rarely chosen RWD model – but seeing as to how many people like the CAR and the high VALUE for the price, my complaint is a bit of a nit-pick. On the positive side, the current 2 year unlimited fast charging offer makes it charge at EVGO’s about triple the speed of the old Bolts, or roughly double the number of miles per hour when factoring the inefficiency of a much larger vehicle.
Looks like no freebees anymore from GM at all with ANY ELECTRIC. The 2024 LYRIQ looks like the last Caddy that will get the unlimited 2 year free charging at EVGO, in lieu of the $1,500 electric installation (which, in itself is of limited usefulness since there are so many stipulations – for instance my home is disqualified without me spending $thousands). Chevy also no longer does the $500 EVGO / ChargePoint credit, or $1,250 installation).
This no doubt explains the $2,000 reduction in price of the basic 2025 Luxury 1 LYRIQ – something I think most people would agree is an acceptable tradeoff.
My wife got a loaner Lyriq when her XT5 was serviced recently. I was super excited to get to ride around in it for a day, but that quickly wore off. Neither of us liked it at all. The super cruise was very cool, and the display was impressive, but we both felt that the interior felt like an old man’s car, and it didn’t feel as useful as the XT5. I’m hoping the next try will be better.
I’ll bet you had the beige/band-aid color interior. I test drove one with the Juniper interior and it was fantastic looking, then the sales guy was trying to work numbers for me and could only find those beige interiors on their lot. I just looked in the window and said, “No way.”
I think the Phantom Blue interior on the Optiq is going to be pretty much like the Juniper on the Lyriq and, so far, what I’m planning on getting (then I’m going to complain non-stop to GM that they need to support CarPlay just like the Lyriq does).
Yeah Hi Bob –
I got my 2023 ‘Luxury Lyriq’ finally in April ’23; out of 6 people ordering it 11 months earlier on an ‘order day’ I was the only one at my dealership since I ordered the 2wd version which none of the 5 others did. A friend has an AWD model – he says it drives funny sometimes so there might be an issue with synchronizing the front and rear drive trains in his vehicle.
Prior to ordering this – they had 2 GM ‘Big Experts’ from Detroit bragging about a sample LYRIQ, which no one could drive…. I complained about *NOT* being able to shut off the tacky (to me childish) Lighting display when you approached or left the car, seeing it as a BIG SECURITY ISSUE when in a bad neighborhood. They said they’d change it if enough people complained but no one did.
The Obtuse Dashboard is a big problem for me, as is the very bad blind spot over your left shoulder.
But other than these 3 things, I rather like the car – but my view is in the minority. Every one else seems to absolutely love it…
I was also at a point given an XT5 for a recall on the LYRIQ… I guess it was OKAY for a gasoline car. But to me nothing memorable. The cylinder deactivation (it was a naturally aspirated optional V-6) gave it pretty good gas mileage. More electrical information on the dashboard than you can ever get with any GM electric.
A plus with that XT5 is apparently that V-6 doesn’t suffer from lifter trouble that all the GM V-8’s do, or at least I haven’t heard anything about it.
Ya, but Lyriq doesn’t even have rear seat heating on an $81,000 car, does it?
Bill: My Bolt EV has the start/stop button and I love it. There are many times (like yesterday) where my 11 and 13 year old kids don’t want to run into the store with me real quick, but it’s very hot where we live at this time. With my Bolt, I can just leave the kids sitting in back with the car running (although others wouldn’t know it), get out, lock the doors with my key fob and run into the store. Simple, easy and everyone is happy.
But with this stupid system where you sit on the seat and the car “starts”, you can’t do that. If there’s not a butt on the drivers seat, the vehicle won’t stay on. Where I work, we have Volvo and they use that stupid system on the EX and EX40’s. I hate it.
Don’t they have a “pet mode” or “keep climate” setting?
That’s because GM only releases results on a quarterly basis, while Honda does monthly.
We won’t know for certain if Prologue is outselling the Blazer until the third quarter numbers come out, but production numbers from the Mexico Auto Industry Association claim that they produced 33,366 Blazer EVs through June of this year. Sales through June totaled 9,763, and Chevrolet claims there are currently 11,139 in inventory between the United States and Canada, which leaves 12,811 units unaccounted (and that doesn’t account any additional production in the intervening months; they averaged ~ 3900 a month last quarter).
That suggests to me that Blazer sales could match or exceed the Prologue, and similar data exists to suggest strong sales of the Equinox as well. Hard to say for certain though, as it is not known for sure how long after production a vehicle is considered to be in inventory.
Wish Honda would do a version of Equinox/Optiq on the Ultium platform so I could get CarPlay.
Or that Rivian and GM would just reverse their decisions about CarPlay.
Looking for something smaller than the Blazer/Prologue.
It’s mind blowing, how GM lets sold orders sit in limbo without processing them. That’s right, GM doesn’t care about the customer. It’s obvious!