Walter Raulerson

Do you folks think the electric model will sell and or be available more than the base C8?

AORoads

Yes, I think there'll be a lot of buyers for it. Availability depends on many factors that, right now, don't look so good. Just remember tho that GM and all the automakers are making really big plans for EV, and the date is approaching. If you look at the number of new EV coming out, even tho it may seem a trickle right now, someone's going to buy them Or, the whatever company it is will be bought out or closed. And closing is not an option. jmo

Avanti

There is a section of the C8 Forum expressly for such issues.

Kevin A Jones

Yep, there is: https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...iscussion-188/

Vetteman Jack

Moving this to the appropriate section.

lt4obsesses

I think there will be a fair order rate for it. While judging from the conversations here, it seems that most of the Corvette enthusiasts are less than enthused about the lack of the ICE, GM does have a huge opportunity to steal a little thunder from Tesla. Of course, that is if/when the BEV Corvette comes around.

In the meantime, it looks like we'll see a hybrid version first. The take rate of this one is really going to depend upon what it offers compared the current car. If it offers AWD, and possibly more power without a huge jump in the msrp, it may sell pretty well.

The bottom line, however, is that automotive industry is going electric. The manufacturers are married to the agenda, for better or worse. For myself, I just don't see it as solving enough problems to cover the problems it creates, at least with the current technology and infrastructure we have and are likely to have within the next dozen years. But hey, if there untold technologies that can solve the power grid issue, the charging issues (especially for the millions that don't have home charging access) and the use of rare earth materials that far less abundant than petroleum. If they can solve all that by 2035 when the ICE is scheduled to be obsolete, great. I just don't see that happening.

Walter Raulerson

I just read CAR AND DRIVER'S 40,000 mile take on the Tesla 3 overall it doesn't sound so good unless there are a lot of extra stuff from third party companies to make it better. A friend has a Model S and frankly it's kinda sparse and I just don't like that big ole computer screen

Michael A

If a Corvette can't be used for running laps at the track or taking it on a spirited drive on back roads without running out of energy in 15 minutes, it's no longer a Corvette.

jimmyb

You guys know that the eRay/GS is a hybrid, right? It doesn't "run out of energy in 15 minutes" but it will run out of gas, driven long enough.

jimmyb

I would offer that if the price difference is close to what the C7 Stingray/C7 GS was, it will be a HUGE hit.

lt4obsesses

The original question asked if the "electric" Corvette would sell. I'm assuming he meant the BEV rather than the PHEV.

jimmyb

^^^
Sorry.
Now my answer is that the fully electric Corvette is 6-8 years away (IMO) so hazarding a guess on how it will sell is silly.

Warp Ten

I will never buy a 2 seat all electric sports car from any car company, no matter what the price is.

lostsoul

EVEN IF:

1) They make lighter, faster, longer lasting batteries?
2) Get the cost average to ICE?
3) Fill up at home for allot cheaper then gas(minus the swamps complete manipulation)
4) Much less maintenance costs to ICE (electric motors lasting longer then engines)

Its difficult people and as I said before I get the hate and how unfair this stuff was pushed, but tech is getting much better to just write it all off. Yes, the car will lose some of the special feelings, but you have that already with no manual options and even steering which why so many like the Lotus. Get an older car you like and have something of the future that reliable at if they can meet this list I have up there soon the better we will be. The E-Ray is a step to that but is the perfect mix of both worlds.. It like the Z06 will be special. I cant wait.. The feeling from a high powered AWD launch gives me goose bumps. Driving safe at 90mph in the rain excites me..lol

Soon my friends...

Racer X

Some of us are old enough that we won’t live long enough to see all 4 of those things(hopefully I will, but…..). I am still waiting for the 1970 promise of flying cars for the average family by 2000………. It has been a vey long and unfruitful wait. So please excuse my skepticism based on that, and the current state of technology and how long it takes it come to price efficient production.

jimmyb

So..."Popular Mechanics" writes an article about flying cars in 1970 and you thought: "Cool, I can't wait for the flying car to come out"?
What are your thoughts on the 80MPG carb. that the oil companies squashed about the same time...

Kodiak Bear

IMO the hybrid will sell very well.

I expect a pricing less than the Z06. Think the old GS pricing model. I expect it to out sell the base model to the extent that the it will be considered the more desirable Corvette. It will out perform the base model is all performance measurables that are usually published by the media. Definitely in all accelerations tests and stop light to stop light street "tests". And it has a "virtue signaling" advantage over the base model for the boulevard cruiser folks. .That means convertible sales will be good. I also expect the styling to be via the GS model, more aggressive than the base model therefore "outlook" the base model.

Racer X

I believe it was Popular Science. It is just one example of many technology promises that were not delivered. Physics is really hard to deny. And politicians ignore reality all the time. And many people on this board.

jimmyb

I'm not sure a magazine article equates to a "technology promise". I have no memory of GM or Ford ever showing any kind of "flying" car...Now, a mid-engine Corvette...

Racer X

The articles were not written by Science Fiction writers. They were based on information from “experts” (engineers, scientists, and inventors of the time). Just the like the “coming ice age” articles in Time based on predictions of climatologists of the time. Saying ice would cover much of Northern Europe and North America by now.

GM has been working on “skateboard” electrics(with exchangeable bodies for decades. Have you seen one yet?