What’s the definition of insanity again? Edmunds.com is among the few automotive publications that actually buys its longterm test vehicles (Autoblog is not among them), which gives them a greater selection of vehicles from which to test (not all car companies give out year-long loans). That includes many new-to-the-market electric vehicles
, including multiple
Teslas,
Lucid Air and the original
Chevy Bolt EV, that they have been among the first to own as well as test. It has historically not gone well. I worked there when the original
Tesla Model S
were rife with problems, too. The Bolt was hardly trouble-free, albeit to a lesser extent. One could therefore deduce, albeit from this small sample size, that being among the earliest adopters of a new EV model isn’t the wisest move. Nevertheless, Edmunds is among the first owners of a 2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV , and it is not going well.
You can find the full post here, Our Chevy Blazer EV has 23 problems after only 2 months
, but the headline does a pretty bang-up job of summarizing the unfortunate situation. In short, the car erupted with error messages during a drive from Los Angeles to San Diego. When they took it to a
dealer, they received “the single longest list of major faults we at
Edmunds have ever seen on a
new car.”
Edmunds includes the entirety of its list in its post along with a full rundown of what happened.
One hopes that th is is a rare occurrence, and that it’s a good thing a car publication got what seems like a bad apple rather than a regular buyer excited about their cool new purchase … but time will tell on that front. For the record, Edmunds
