As it turns out, the 2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV that stranded InsideEVs’ Kevin Williams in Virginia isn’t the only Blazer EV with problems. This time around, it isn’t a press car. Instead, it’s a Blazer EV that Edmunds bought with its own money less than two months ago. With only 1,600 miles on the odometer, it’s now been at the dealership for two weeks with numerous issues.
According to Edmunds, its Blazer EV worked just fine in the beginning. As it should have considering it’s a brand new car, and you shouldn’t have to worry about having problems with a car that’s barely broken in. Ironically, the problems all started on a road trip from Los Angeles to San Diego for a Blazer EV event.
The first things to go were the window switches. Then the infotainment system crashed and kept turning off and on again, similar to the problem Williams experienced. Restarting the car initially fixed the infotainment issue, but only for an hour.
Then things got worse. Closer to home, numerous errors messages popped up: “service vehicle soon,” “service high-voltage system” and “service 12-volt system.” Cool. Later that day, after shutting off the Blazer EV and letting it chill out for a while, we started the Chevy and were greeted with a blank infotainment screen (again), and yet another error that read, “unable to charge — service charging system.” This, despite the fact that the car wasn’t plugged in. At that point, the Blazer displayed a little turtle icon and showed, “reduced acceleration — drive with care.” Then one-pedal driving stopped working, and auto hold was no longer available.
Yeah, that sounds bad. The next day, though, the warning lights were all back off again. Still, Edmunds took the Blazer EV to a nearby dealer to make sure it wasn’t a fluke. After checking out the car, the dealer gave them “the single longest list of major faults we at Edmunds have ever seen on a new car.” So far, there are 23 issues, and after two weeks at the dealer, they still have no idea when it will all be fixed.
Edmunds has the breakdown of every single thing that’s wrong with its Blazer EV, so head over there and give the whole thing a read.
