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January 17, 2023 09:00 AM

Chevy electrifies Corvette with $128,798 E-Ray awd hybrid

Chevrolet says the car, arriving later this year, will be the quickest Corvette yet, with a 0-60 mph time of just 2.5 seconds

Nick Bunkley
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    DETROIT — Chevrolet is giving the Corvette all-wheel drive and a hybrid powertrain for the first time, but it's not quite ready to make the famed sports car fully electric.

    The Corvette E-Ray, available later this year as a 2024 coupe model, will start at $128,798, Chevy said Tuesday. It will be available in removeable roof coupe and hardtop convertible models. Pricing includes shipping.

    The E-Ray will be the quickest Corvette yet, according to Chevy, capable of accelerating from zero to  60 mph (96 km/h) in 2.5 seconds. That's one-tenth of a second faster than the track-ready Corvette Z06, which costs several thousand dollars more.

    It features an eAWD system with a 160-hp electric motor over the front axle and a 495-hp, 6.2-litre small-block V-8 powering the rear wheels for a combined 655 hp — making the E-Ray the "Swiss Army knife" of Corvettes, said Bradford Franz, marketing director for Chevy cars and crossovers.

    "It can perform in all weather conditions," Franz said. "It's a bridge to the future, if you will. This is just a fantastic opportunity for us to take this and push this Corvette brand somewhere it's never been."

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    General Motors, which is rolling out electric versions of several popular nameplates this year, has confirmed it is developing a fully battery-powered Corvette as well. Officials wouldn't say when that car will arrive.

    "We're certainly on the road to that, but in the meantime we have a lot of technology bandwidth that we can still unpack with Corvette," said Steve Majoros, Chevy's marketing director.

    The E-Ray is 3.6 inches — or 9.1 centimetres — wider and about 200 pounds — or 90 kilograms — heavier than the standard Corvette Stingray. Its compact electric motor preserves space in the front storage compartment, Chevrolet said, while an active fuel management system can operate the V-8 engine in four-cylinder mode to boost efficiency. It channels the extra 160 hp and 125 pound-feet of torque through the front wheels via a 1.9-kilowatt-hour battery pack located between the seats.

    Drivers can start the car in Stealth Mode to silently exit their neighborhood on battery power at up to 45 mph.

    Chevy decided not to make the E-Ray a plug-in hybrid, instead designing it to recharge the battery mostly during coasting, braking and normal driving.

    "Plug-in hybrids are designed more for energy and range," said Mike Kutcher, lead development engineer for the Corvette. "The mission of this vehicle was performance, performance, performance. Every kilogram or pound and gram had to earn its way in from a mass standpoint."

    The E-Ray's battery pack is sourced from LG, though development of the car predates GM's Ultium Cells joint venture with LG. GM will build the car at its Corvette assembly plant in Bowling Green, Ky.

    PHOTO GALLERY: The Chevrolet Corvette through the years

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    When the Corvette was introduced at the 1953 Motorama, GM rushed to get it into production. It set up a temporary factory in Flint, Mich., and built 300 for the 1953 model year. The cars were put in the hands of celebrities and executives to build word-of-mouth enthusiasm.

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    The 1957 Corvette.

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    The 1960 Corvette. Styling evolved significantly during the first generation of the car but many design cues that would become synonymous with the Corvette were established, including the long dash-to-axle proportion, dual round taillamps and a dual-cockpit-style interior. All first-generation Corvettes were convertibles.

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    The 1963 Chevrolet Corvette. The second-generation Corvette – dubbed Sting Ray, after a concept race car that influenced its design – represented a revolution in design, engineering technology and performance. Where the first-generation Corvette was based on a modified passenger sedan platform, the second-generation was a clean-sheet redesign based on a dedicated architecture. It enabled a lower center of gravity and lower, sportier seating position, while supporting an all-new independent rear suspension that dramatically transformed the car's road-holding performance.

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    The 1965 Corvette

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    The third-generation Corvette -- beginning with the 1968 model -- was the longest and the car evolved significantly during an upheaval in the auto industry. It was introduced for 1968 as the Stingray -- one word vs. two words with the second generation. Aficionados generally call these cars “shark” models, for their aggressive styling. From a performance standpoint, the C3 generation was transitional. Big-block engines rated at 435 horsepower were initially popular but the auto industry's shift to unleaded fuel, tighter emissions standards and changing consumer attitudes affected output over time. In 1975, the standard 350 small-block was rated at only 165 horsepower -- about 20 percent less than the original 195-hp small-block from 1955.

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    The 1977 Chevrolet Corvette. The sports car set an annual U.S. sales record of 42,571 in 1977 that stands today.

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    The 1979 Corvette.

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    The 1984 Corvette.

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    Retired General Chuck Yeager poses with the 1986 C4 Corvette Indy pace car he drove for that year's 500-mile race.

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    The 1990 Chevrolet Corvette

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    The all-new 1997 Corvette was larger overall than the outgoing C4 yet weighed nearly 100 pounds less.

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    The 2003 50th Anniversary Chevrolet Corvette C5 was featured as the official pace car of the Indy 500.

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    The 2005 Corvette featured a return to fixed headlamps.

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    The Corvette vision concept was introduced at the Chicago Auto Show in 2009 and previewed the character Sideswipe in the movie "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen." The concept was the creation of Corvette designers at GM and heavily influenced by the original Sting Ray race car introduced in 1959.

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    The 2011 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport.

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    GM has standardized its information technology architecture at all of its plants worldwide, including the Chevrolet Corvette plant in Bowling Green, Ky.

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    The 2014 Corvette

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    The 2020 Corvette is equipped with Chevrolet's next-generation 6.2-liter small block V-8 LT2 engine. It is the only naturally aspirated V-8 in the segment and generates 495 hp and 470 lb.-ft. of torque when equipped with performance exhaust — the most horsepower and torque for any entry Corvette.

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