The 2025 Chevrolet Equinox debuts an all-new fourth generation for the compact crossover nameplate, bringing with it a long list of changes and updates. Chief among these is new styling, including a completely reworked exterior design and more truck-like attitude. Even so, the 2025 Equinox actually shares its door handles with completely different Chevy crossover.
2025 Chevrolet Equinox door handle
Chevy Blazer EV door handle
As it turns out, the 2025 Chevrolet Equinox uses the same door handles as the all-electric Chevy Blazer EV. That might come as something of a surprise given just how different these two models actually are, from the powertrain, to the sizing differences. It’s also somewhat ironic, as the ICE-powered 2025 Equinox shares a name with the all-electric Equinox EV, but not the door handles, with the battery-powered Equinox equipped with deployable door handles, while the ICE-based Equinox isn’t.
Interestingly, the deployable door handles equipped by the Equinox EV, as well as the non-deployable door handles on the ICE-based Equinox and battery-powered Blazer EV, are new additions to the Chevy lineup, presenting a new shape that differs from the handles typically equipped across Chevy’s model lineup previously.
2025 Chevrolet Equinox
As for the door handles on the ICE-based 2025 Chevrolet Equinox, the front handles incorporate a lock and unlock button, whereas the rear door handles do not.
As for the rest of updates, the all-new ICE-based 2025 Equinox shows off a completely overhauled exterior design that lends a more truck-like attitude. Standout features include squared wheel wells, a shark-fin-style C-pillar, and LED lighting at both ends. The cabin is all-new as well, and offers an 11-inch diagonal driver information center, 11.3-inch diagonal infotainment screen, standard six-speaker audio, and available wireless device charging.
A total of three trim levels are offered, including the entry-level LT, the outdoorsy Activ, and the sporty RS. All three variants utilize the turbocharged 1.5L I4 LSD gasoline engine, while under the skin, the 2025 ‘Nox rides on an updated version of the GM D2 platform. Production takes place at the GM San Luis Potosi plant in Mexico.
Check out our exclusive video for a hand-on exterior design tour of the new 2025 Equinox:
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Big deal. Except for the idiocy of “me too” deployable ones, door handles are hardly something to ponder one’s life away about. I actually thought the answer was Trax, seeing the massive cost cutting being undertaken to pay for yet MORE idiotic EVs. But I’m also sure “Terrain” is a correct answer.
Some ppl will share any kind of minutiae they can grab to try to normalize EV. Kind of funny really.
So What.
EV door handles are as close as I get to ever buying an EV.
GM continues to do stupid things. They could have made the new Equinox the leader of the pack! But all the money went into the EV’s. The EV Equinox is beautiful, but I won’t buy it. This is what happens when there’s too much government and not enough freedom of choice.
That’s odd, I see all kinds of vehicles for sale and tons and tons of choice.
GM has a long history of sharing door handles.
In the 50’s to early 70’s they mostly used the same handle.