The 2025 Chevy Blazer EV SS Is A Performance Crossover For Normies

It's not an enthusiast special like the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N, and that's ok. I just wish it wasn't so fat.

The 2025 Chevy Blazer EV SS isn’t the drifty, playful performance EV of our dreams. Chevy made that clear before I even got in the driver’s seat.

“One more spoiler for you: I will tell you, if you decide to explore the outer limits of the vehicle on the track today, no surprise, you will experience a bit of understeer in the vehicle,” Blazer EV Product Marketing Manager Chris Boman said during the introduction presentation. “That’s a characteristic of the vehicle. It’s the safe way to tune the vehicle for normal customers that we’re going to be selling this vehicle to.”

Understeer—the tendency of a vehicle to push wide when you go too fast in a corner—is the opposite of oversteer, the drifty sliding action that looks feels incredible but carries a high risk of spinning. It’s the kind of thing that looks great in a commercial for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 N, with its drift mode. But this isn’t that car, and that’s ok.

It’s a performance electric SUV designed for the people who buy them. That means it’s not the most exciting car in its class, but it’ll probably dust the Hyundai on the sales charts. 

(Full Disclosure: Chevy flew me to Charlotte, North Carolina to drive the Blazer E...
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