Is my Blazer EV RS RWD now a unicorn?

[LarryC]

GM just announced that the RWD version will be discontinued at end of this year. On paper this looks great, also in person. I love the longer range and extra punch but I guess GM didn’t feel it was feeling the love from buyers.

We haven’t put many miles on it but it really is a dream to drive, and the RS red interior is spectacular. I expect to own it for at least 3 or 4 years and I expect it might be a favored version when it goes up for sale. But I bought it for my enjoyment so that really doesn’t matter.

One last thought, probably worthy of a new thread. Why isn’t anyone pushing used EVs as a second car in 2 car families? The two most important issues stopping people from buying EVs seem to be price and range. Having an EV as a second car, and purchased as used, would address that. And as most of us know, once an EV owner then you are generally sold on the idea.


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[insightman]

GM just announced that the RWD version will be discontinued at end of this year. On paper this looks great, also in person. I love the longer range and extra punch but I guess GM didn’t feel it was feeling the love from buyers.

We haven’t put many miles on it but it really is a dream to drive, and the RS red interior is spectacular. I expect to own it for at least 3 or 4 years and I expect it might be a favored version when it goes up for sale. But I bought it for my enjoyment so that really doesn’t matter.

One last thought, probably worthy of a new thread. Why isn’t anyone pushing used EVs as a second car in 2 car families? The two most important issues stopping people from buying EVs seem to be price and range. Having an EV as a second car, and purchased as used, would address that. And as most of us know, once an EV owner then you are generally sold on the idea.

I googled "0-60 rwd blazer ev" and Google's AI got really confused, claiming that 0-60 in 5.7 seconds is slower than 0-60 in 6 seconds:

"The 2025 Chevrolet Blazer EV RS RWD accelerates from 0 to 60 mph in 5.7 seconds. The rear-wheel-drive Blazer EV is a bit slower to 60 mph than the AWD variant (which does it in 6.0 seconds), according to MotorTrend."

The RWD Blazer EV has Chevy's 105 kWh battery so it can go further on a charge than the 85 kWh (non-SS) AWD Blazer EV. I didn't know it had more punch. The Motor Trend article I found says the 105 kWh battery in the RWD Blazer EV brings that model up to the same weight as the (non-SS) AWD Blazer EV, but 85 kWh AWD has more torque.

Now I'm confused.

 

[brianc35]

One last thought, probably worthy of a new thread. Why isn’t anyone pushing used EVs as a second car in 2 car families? The two most important issues stopping people from buying EVs seem to be price and range. Having an EV as a second car, and purchased as used, would address that. And as most of us know, once an EV owner then you are generally sold on the idea.

I think we got into this a bit here:
https://www.insideevsforum.com/community/index.php?threads/why-no-buy-ev.20338/
While it is posed as a new buy topic, i think the same things apply to the used market as well.
Perhaps added on the used side, the battery life expectancy and replacement costs.