2025 Chevrolet Blazer EV AWD Review
2025 Chevrolet Blazer EV LT AWD
Base Price: $47,600
85 kWh battery pack
288 HP / 333 TQ
0-60 : 5.7 Seconds
Efficiency: 3.0 kWh as observed
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Guy who did stuff: Yousef Alvi
This is the 2025 Chevrolet Blazer EV and it’s what 90% of the general non-car loving public would ever want or neeed in a vehicle. It is spacious, it is a crossover, it is comfortable, it is well equipped-ish and it’s relatively affordable. I don’t want to hark on the Blazer EV, for what it is designed to do…it does so without an issue.
But it does so without a sense of emotion. There a sterility in the Blazer EV that doesn’t change with Drive Modes or aggressiveness. The 2025 Blazer EV just goes about it’s business of transporting living beings and their cargo without a fuss. I mean this in the best way possible:
“It’s like a really good fridge. You like the fridge, you depend on your fridge...but you don’t find yourself talking excitedly about it with your buddies”
That’s not a bad thing folks! Chances are, if you’re reading a review on this Blazer EV, a really good automotive appliance is what you need and want. Lateral accerelation, skid pad numbers and Nurburing track times is the furtherest thing from your mind…and thats where the Blazer EV shines. It’s just very good at being errrr….boringly good?
Let’s go ahead and break it down:
The Great
- Looks
Flying in the face of everything else…the Blazer EV looks fantastic! Shark-ish front end blends with an angular side profile and decent looking rear end. The Blazer EV stands out in the sea of dreary designs.
- Comfy
The Blazer EV may look like it could dance in the corners….and you would be wrong. It’s softy sprung and damped. Instead of flinging it a corner, you find yourself slowly sliding it in and slowly accerelating out. It’s just so darn comfortable that any inkling of your inner speed demon gets lulled to sleep.
- Supercruise!!
The best self driving system on the market today. GM’s Supercruise system works flawlessly! No bouncing between lanes, no swerving on to the shoulder…it’s just effing brilliant piece of engineering!
Oh and it changes lanes for you too! If the tool in front of you is hogging the left hand lane, the Supercruise system will activate the blinker, wait for an opening, change lanes and then signal itself back to the original lane.
The Good
- Brakes
Chevy has seemed to master the brake feel on the Blazer EV. Instead feeling artificial like most EVs on the road, the Blazer EV feels organic…like the pedal is actually attached to something and not a servo. Sure it’s not going to out brake a M3 but it feels better than most of it’s rivals
- Interior
I really hope Chevrolet has finally turned the page on it’s Lego-y interiors because this Blazer EV, definitely feels like it has. No it isn’t Mazda levels of refinement but it drops kick the heck out of the VW ID.4 interior. In other words, the Blazer EV’s interior is squishy where it should be squishy. Nothing looks or feels like it came from a 1992 parts bin….everything just feels…nice!
- Sexy Buttons and Knobs
Buttons and Knobs galore!! There is a freakin’ knob or button for everything you touch on the daily basis! From setting the temperature to turning off the lane keep assist…there is a physical thing to turn, push or pull.
How refreshing!
- Space
Space for everything and everyone. The 2025 Blazer EV gives nothing but airy roominess to every passenger on board and their junk in the back. It’s not just big on the inside…it’s perfectly packaged. The second row seating has enough legroom to make a Tahoe jealous.
The Bad
- Except for turning it off or on
The Blazer EV is designed for you to get in and go. You don’t have to fiddle with a start button to turn on or even off! When you’re done driving, you just get out and lock the car and it turns itself off.
Yes it’s a bit unnerving. To placate the neurotics, like me, there is a start button but it’s an icon on the infotainment screen.
It’s a two step and annoying process. You push the vehicle button and then the submenu populates and you push ‘vehicle off’. Really? Just give me a freakin’ off/on switch!
The Ugly
-CarPlay
It doesn’t have it. No you can’t pay to have it either…GM has stubbornly crossed it’s arms and stomped its feet on anything related to the CarPlay ecosystem.
- Seating Position
Seating position is atrocious. Can’t sit low enough to be comfortable or high enough to actually see anything but you have move precariously closer to the wheel to see anything.
- Visibility
Can’t see out of the damn thing. The front A pillars are huge and the side B pillars are equally obtrusive. The squared off hood doesn’t help matters since you can’t really see where it ends.
- Feels gigantic
The stupid seating position paired with the lousy visibility and add some vague suspension around turns…the Blazer feels bigger to drive than a Tahoe. It’s unwieldy at it’s best and annoying at it’s worst.
The Overall
Do you not give a flying frack about steering feel, 0-60 and cornering grip? Do you just want an EV that goes from A to B in comfort, style and relative efficiency? Welp the 2025 Chevrolet Blazer EV is here for you…even with it’s annoyances.
