The Chevrolet Spark EV Is Back, But There’s Some Explaining To Do

CHIME with comments on the article.

The dissatisfied Chevrolet Spark EV is the first adequate battery car of General Motors of this century. Although it is a little more than a car in accordance and the sale of less than 8,000 sets in the United States, it is a decent urban EV.

It was discontinued stateside in 2016 and its successor, the Chevrolet Bolt EV, fared much better in every respect. But now that the Bolt is no longer being offered (a new generation is on the way, though), the Spark EV is making a comeback.

That said, the story is a little more complicated than it seems at first glance. The car you see in the photos below is indeed called the Chevrolet Spark EUV, and it’s a small electric crossover, as opposed to the five-door hatchback of the 2014 model. This should help GM attract buyers who are attracted to crossover-shaped vehicles, and that’s a good thing if the end goal is to put as many zero-emissions cars on the road as possible.

But the name is just a remnant of the past because the new Spark EUV is pretending to be a Chevrolet. That’s because the battery-powered urban crossover is just a badge-engineering job. Under the shiny bowtie badges, the EV is the same Chinese-made Baojun Yep Plus, a four-door, rear-wheel drive urban crossover built by the SAIC-GM-Wuling joint venture. 

It debuted in China last year with a 75-kilowatt (101-horsepower) rear electric motor and a 41. 9-kilowatt-hour (LFP) lithium-phosphate battery that makes for a CLTC-rated diversity of 249 miles (401 kilometers).

It should not be had with the protection of the four wheels or the lower protection of the body, and a reviewer in China that led the two -door edition said that “uncomfortable, narrow, but fun. ” Your house market, and that is the price. It begins with the equivalent of approximately $ 12,000, which is used for cars in the United States

For this kind of money, consumers get two 10. 25-inch screens for the virtual tool cluster and infotainment formula. In China, the YEP Plus is delivered with a complex driving assistance formula (ADAS) evolved through DJI DJI drones including Automobile Park and a 360-degree camera formula, among others. The car is 157 inches (3. 9 meters) long, 69 inches (1. 7 m) wide, and has a wheelbase of one hundred inches (2. 5 m).

It is a cheap and cheap EV that can bring 4 adults for relatively short trips. As for the Chevrolet Spark EUV, you have doubts that you will ever reach the US. UU. – Rates and everything. At all times, his first market will be Brazil where General Motors revealed him as a component of the Chevrolet centenary in the South American country. EUV’s spark made a wonderful appearance on stage, but GM did not say a word about specifications, prices or availability. All we know is that it is that it is that it will be among the 10 new cars introduced in Brazil this year, but that does not say much.

CHIME with comments on the article.

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