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The Chevy Blazer EV Launch Has Gone From Rough to Worse As GM Issues
Stop-Sale

Customers, dealerships, and journalists alike are having issues with
the Bowtie's newest electric vehicle.

byNico DeMattia| PUBLISHED Dec 24, 2023 10:00 AM EST
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The Chevy Blazer EV has had a rough couple of months. Since the
Bowtie's newest electric vehicle has been on sale, it's been giving
customers, dealerships, and even journalists issues. It's even left
people stranded, due to bricked software. It's a mess right now and
all of its issues have added up, leading Chevrolet to put a stop-sale
on the Blazer EV until it can get its software sorted out.

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Chevy's public problems with the Blazer EV began when Edmunds started
having issues with their long-term test car. In less than two months,
and fewer than 2,000 miles, Edmunds' Blazer EV--which they bought and
wasn't provided by Chevy--has had 23 different issues and has been at
the dealership for two straight weeks. First, it was just
intermittently faulty window switches and odd navigation glitches.
Then the car gave off high-voltage battery warnings and would refuse
to charge, among many others.

Edmunds' scribes aren't the only journalists having issues with the
Blazer EV, though. InsideEV staff writer Kevin Williams was left
stranded in Virginia by the Blazer EV during a road test, due to
charging issues. He also saw glitches that rendered the infotainment
screen useless.

Customers are having issues, too. After Williams reported being
stranded, a Blazer EV owner emailed him to say that their car had
similar infotainment issues. When the owner brought their car to the
dealer to fix its infotainment glitches, the dealer installed a
software update that rendered the car useless after it bricked both
the infotainment screen and digital gauge cluster.

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Even dealerships are claiming to have issues with the Blazer EVs on
their lots. Redditor Whole_Tart3159 claims to work for a Chevy
dealership that has two Blazer EVs in their inventory but neither can
be sold because they're both in the shop. Both are reportedly having
software issues but one will go into limp mode and the other will
randomly open and close its charge port door.

All of these issues are why Chevy is putting a stop-sale on the
Blazer EV but it's unclear how serious the issues are and how long it
will take to fix them. However, a GM spokesperson told The Drive that
the Blazer issues have affected a "limited" number of owners and that
they "are not safety related nor related to Ultium or Google
Built-In."

Here's GM's official statement: "We are aware that a limited number
of Blazer EV owners have experienced some software quality issues. To
ensure our customers have a great experience with their vehicles, we
are temporarily pausing sales of Blazer EVs. Our team is working
quickly to roll out a fix, and owners will be contacted with further
information on how to schedule their update. We apologize for the
inconvenience."

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