{"id":3317,"date":"2026-04-08T03:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/?p=3317"},"modified":"2026-04-11T02:45:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T02:45:22","slug":"chevy-equinox-ev-sales-almost-hold-up-but-blazer-ev-sales-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/?p=3317","title":{"rendered":"Chevy Equinox EV Sales Almost Hold Up, But Blazer EV Sales Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As I wrote earlier today, Cadillac bucked the EV sales downtrend<\/a> and showed again that it\u2019s leading the EV transition among legacy automakers in the US, but sibling Chevrolet did not perform as well.<\/p>\n

Chevrolet\u2019s top selling electric vehicles, one of the best sellers in the country, is the Equinox EV. The good news is that the Equinox EV itself actually did quite well. What it offers at a highly affordable price is about as good as it gets if you\u2019re looking for a good deal. As a result, Chevrolet still sold 9,589 units in the first quarter of 2026 despite the loss of the $7,500 federal EV tax credit. That was down only 7.2% from the 10,329 delivered in Q1 2025. How many more units of the model will be sold in the rest of 2026 as gas prices sting and people shift to BEVs?<\/p>\n

The Chevrolet Blazer EV, unfortunately, didn\u2019t fare nearly as well. Its sales dropped 82.6% from 6,187 in Q1 2025 to 1,077 in Q1 2026. Not great. That\u2019s especially disappointing since we reviewed the SUV for a week last year<\/a> and found it to be a highly satisfactory overall vehicle that we could strongly recommend and didn\u2019t have any real complaints about.<\/p>\n

However, GM brought back the Chevrolet Bolt for the time being, and that did pick up some of the slack. The Bolt had only 13 sales in Q1 2025 but had 791 in Q1 2026. So, combining the Equinox EV and the Bolt, Chevrolet\u2019s EV sales would have been about level year over year. But the Blazer EV\u2019s poor results crashed that hope.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s also the Chevy Silverado EV. The electric pickup truck (Jennifer\u2019s new ride<\/a>) had 1,406 deliveries, down a bit from the 2,383 of Q1 last year. However, with Ford dropping the F-150 Lightning, I think we could see some good results from the Silverado EV as the year moves along. Also, remember that whole chaotic crisis in the Middle East caused by Trump and his goons.<\/p>\n

On the plus side, the BrightDrop 400 and BrightDrop 600, which are being dropped themselves, had better numbers in Q1 2026 than in Q1 2025 \u2014 496 versus 274. An 81% rise there doesn\u2019t counteract the higher-volume 41% loss from the Silverado EV, but it softens the blow.<\/p>\n

Down in GMC land, EV results weren\u2019t great either. The GMC Hummer EV had only 1,653 sales, down 52.5% from the 3,479 at this time last year. The GMC Sierra EV, though, was stable \u2014 1,249 last year, 1,288 this year.<\/p>\n

Chevrolet\u2019s sales were down overall by more than 35,000 units, while GMC\u2019s overall sales declined by a few hundred units.<\/p>\n

Expecting the first quarter to be a bad quarter for obvious reasons (most notably, the end of the $7,500 federal tax credit), Chevrolet and GMC figures don\u2019t look too<\/em> bad. I think one can hope for a bounceback in the second quarter and the remainder of the year, but we\u2019ll see. Considering that GM is still heavily backing Cadillac\u2019s EV business and seems to want to be a leader on EVs, I\u2019m more inclined to take an optimistic outlook on Chevrolet\u2019s and GMC\u2019s future US EV sales. They should be up, up, and up some more in coming quarters.<\/p>\n

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