GM Authority has exclusively obtained what could be the first-ever photos of an upcoming new model from Chevrolet in developing markets. The small electric crossover you see here is the Chevy Spark EUV, which is essentially a badge-engineered version of the Baojun Yep Plus.
SAIC-GM-Wuling (SGMW) officially announced the all-new Baojun Yep Plus in January 2024. It’s an extended five-door version of the Yep EV, and it’s exclusively for the Chinese market. The Chevy Spark EUV appears almost identical to the Baojun Yep Plus, with the obvious differences of black Chevy emblems and “Spark EUV Activ” badging.
Chevy Bolt EUV Activ
Judging by the powertrain of the Baojun Yep Plus, we believe the Chevy Spark EUV will be powered by a single rear-mounted electric motor with a 100 horsepower output. The Baojun version of the same crossover has an estimated range of 401 km.
The Chevy Spark EUV follows the Chevy Groove and Chevy Captiva in being a Baojun-developed and produced model sold under the Chevy brand in developing markets. The Groove is a rebadged Baojun 510 subcompact crossover and the Captiva is based on the Baojun 530 compact crossover.
Baojun Yep Plus
As for where exactly the Chevy Spark EUV will be sold, we reported in July that GM trademarked the name “Spark EUV” in Laos. When we reported on the trademark filing at the time, the Baojun Yep Plus was on our list of possible candidates to wear the Spark EUV nameplate.
The rest of the Chevy lineup in Laos is more similar to the Bowtie brand’s U.S. lineup than you might expect. A few offerings include the Trax, Trailblazer, Tahoe, and Suburban, but there’s also the Sail, Cruze, Captiva, Tracker, and the international version of the Colorado.
Baojun Yep Plus
It’s hard to make specific predictions on which other markets will get the Chevy Spark EUV, but it’s unlikely that it will be offered in the U.S. Coming exclusively with rear-wheel drive with only 100 horsepower makes it unsuitable to American tastes. However, we look forward to GM’s next USDM EV, the 2026 Chevy Bolt EV, arriving soon as The General’s most affordable electric offering in the States.
Comments
Wow!! Amazing!! Once more super ugly, boring box with ugly black plastic all over it. Looks like every SUV on the market already.
The automotive world is so depressing any more. No good designers. No visionaries. Just a bunch of lazy designers who think everyone wants to drive these things.
These boxes may be ugly but they are super roomy which is what many people in developing countries need. Look at how hot the new Hyundai Santa Fe is selling. I find it to be the most polarizing Santa Fe out of all the generations of the model with its awkward abrupt squared rear but people love its roominess for its small footprint. That is key for cars like this.
The box is the most efficient shape to maximize interior volume. Which is important in the subcompacts.
Looks ok, but Chinese and electric, hard pass.
If they put a V-6 in it it would sell very well in N.A.
Another wanna-be Land Rover with those absurd plastic things on the rear side windows. Hysterical.
That front end really works as a Chevrolet. Has GMT400 vibes.
I wouldn’t mind if this came to the U.S. a nice small, cheap EV with good range! the US needs more of these.
Chinese garbage, less of that, please
It’s definitively a no-go in North America with the 100% tariff.
Needs the 3.6
In ducking deeeeed!!!! We need power and enjoyment… a small engine does NOT cut it.
Looks like a micro sized Land Rover, but it looks good.
Another UGLY looking shoe-box sports utility van, SUV, boy, GM is really scrapping the bottom of the barrel now, how discusting.
It’s not for us so who cares?
Don’t need any dang EV.
Chevy has dropped the ball again look like a cheap Chinese bronco sport aka no real effort to stand out or build.on what Chevy was known for. If your gonna copy something go back in the history books and copy some of your better designs
They would sell only 20,000 of these in the US. Besides, with the tariffs coming it won’t see the light of day in the US.
I think it’s cute. It’s definitely got land rover/bronco sport elements to it. But it’s also got Chevy Tracker vibes. If they brought that back to the US, they’d sell some.
Most likely the US is never going to see this, Possibly this is going to be sold here in Mexico, And to be honest, Looks pretty cool, And here in Mexico we are loving cheap EV runabouts for City driving, Possibly a good seller here
I love my 23 bolt euv, it would be better to have more range . Gm is doing a great job!!
Great job sticking a bowtie on Chinese garbage!
The dummies at GM don’t get that this thing WOULD do well in the US market with old people. They bought a lot of Honda Elements, Kia Souls and Nissan Cubes. Why wouldn’t they want this? Compact. Easy in-easy out. Roomy inside. Quirky enough to be frisky (looking) but not too dangerous. They only wouldn’t like the lack of physical buttons, but would get used to it. I say bring it to the US and see what happens.
Because it’s like half the size of those and has even less hp than they did/do?
It probably doesn’t meet US safety standards, being a rebadged Chinese car.
It makes the Pontiac Aztec look absolutely gorgeous. You know, car stylists in past years worked for hours sculpturing clay models for beautiful car designs, now days auto designers get it so easy, all they have to do is draw pictures of head lights and tail lights on paper, cut them out and paste them on shoe-boxes.
OK so, every vehicle has an intended purpose. This Spark is not intended to be the second coming of the ’67 GTO. UTILITY is this vehicle’s middle name. I like it, actually, for its looks, but what lies beneath turns me off when I think about it. Two very bad words in my book are “Chinese” and EV”, so I leave it on the table for someone else.
Why does it look like Bronco? Did GM & Ford do a collab? Just wondering…
I thought it looked like an even earlier brick … the jeep renegade
All i can say, is i pray to god, these SUV designers never get employment at Airbus or Boeing, i just can not imagine a square plane. Second thoughts, could make great cargo planes.
It could be the answer for GM in Nascar now there is no Camaro. GM should use the Bolt in Nascar, but then again i can not see Larson or Byron driving this toy car.
I think a similar vehicle using the skateboard from a $35K Equinox EV or from the upcoming 2026 Bolt EV, add the $3K Ultium AWD assist motor to make it AWD and put a Bronco like body and sell it for under $40K would sell well.
Most terrible cars I’ve ever seen. The Spark that people remember is ‘Reliable Korean’, not the ‘Chinese POS’!