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As a Camaro fan, it hurts me to acknowledge that the Camaro is getting a little stale. For starters, Chevrolet doesn’t offer a more powerful variant than the ZL1 with the 1LE track package. And secondly, both the Ford Mustang and Dodge Challenger are selling better, quater after quarter.
Chevrolet isn’t expected to roll out a 55th Anniversary Edition for the 2022 model year either, which is pretty sad for every Camaro diehard out there. GM is also expected to pull the plug on the Camaro for good after the sixth generation, but I wouldn’t bet on that scenario. Chevrolet simply cannot afford to phase out a storied name, and this brings us to Mark Reuss.
A long-time GM executive, Reuss was appointed director of the Performance Division in 2001. Now the president of the Detroit-based automaker, Reuss told Gary Gastelu of Fox News that an electric sports car may be under consideration. “Lots of things are being looked at, studied, designed, and engineered. I can tell you that the Ultium platform is absolutely capable of doing just about everything we want in our portfolio.”
Pretty good so far, but Reuss mentioned “across every segment” as well. Given the Corvette-styled electric utility vehicle we’ve covered in a previous article, an electric pony car is more than possible. The Camaro-like silhouette in the main photo adds fuel to the fire, and the same can be said about the strip-slaying eCOPO Concept from the 2018 SEMA Show.
An 800-volt system coming courtesy of four 200-volt battery modules, a couple of BorgWarner electric motors, and a race-prepped Turbo 400 automatic transmission help the eCOPO cover the quarter-mile in 9.51 seconds at 140 miles per hour (225 kilometers per hour). For reference, Tesla quotes 9.3 seconds for the triple-motor Model S known as the Plaid.
As to when is the e-Camaro going to launch, one can only wonder. Looking at the bigger picture, it will be a slow burn because General Motors still hasn’t delivered a single unit of the Hummer EV or Silverado 1500 Electric.
A long-time GM executive, Reuss was appointed director of the Performance Division in 2001. Now the president of the Detroit-based automaker, Reuss told Gary Gastelu of Fox News that an electric sports car may be under consideration. “Lots of things are being looked at, studied, designed, and engineered. I can tell you that the Ultium platform is absolutely capable of doing just about everything we want in our portfolio.”
Pretty good so far, but Reuss mentioned “across every segment” as well. Given the Corvette-styled electric utility vehicle we’ve covered in a previous article, an electric pony car is more than possible. The Camaro-like silhouette in the main photo adds fuel to the fire, and the same can be said about the strip-slaying eCOPO Concept from the 2018 SEMA Show.
An 800-volt system coming courtesy of four 200-volt battery modules, a couple of BorgWarner electric motors, and a race-prepped Turbo 400 automatic transmission help the eCOPO cover the quarter-mile in 9.51 seconds at 140 miles per hour (225 kilometers per hour). For reference, Tesla quotes 9.3 seconds for the triple-motor Model S known as the Plaid.
As to when is the e-Camaro going to launch, one can only wonder. Looking at the bigger picture, it will be a slow burn because General Motors still hasn’t delivered a single unit of the Hummer EV or Silverado 1500 Electric.
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