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Chevrolet’s desire to build an electric Corvette is dissipating. It’s been three years since General Motors President Mark Reuss teased a “fully electric, Ultium-based Corvette<\/a>,”\u00a0but Chevy isn’t in a rush to make that dream a reality.\u00a0As the\u00a0Corvette’s boss, Tony Roma, puts it bluntly in a recent interview: “Nobody wants that.”<\/p>\n Roma told\u00a0Autocar<\/em><\/a> that he would not build an electric Corvette that did not live up to the model’s heritage. “The badge means something to people,” he told the publication. Roma said that when people buy a Corvette<\/a>, they do it because they want “something special”\u2014they want to be “engaged in the art of driving.” He continued:<\/p>\n ‘I’m not gonna make an EV and put a Corvette badge [that isn’t worthy] of the brand\u2019s 70-plus years of history. Nobody wants that. Sorry, I will stand firm on that. The badge means something to people.’ \u2014 Tony Roma, Executive Chief Engineer of the Corvette<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n And there are plenty of engineering challenges that would hinder the Bowtie brand from making something that Corvette buyers want. According to Roma, an electric Corvette would need the proper power-to-weight ratio with the electric components, the right price, and the right range; and even then, there are other challenges beyond that.<\/p>\n Roma admits that soon, every car will be “incredibly fast<\/a>,” and that the Corvette would need to be “engaging” in new ways because speed and 0-60 mph times are becoming “meaningless” metrics with electric vehicles. Once Chevy<\/a> can “figure out” how to make an electric ‘Vette stand out, “we will,” he says, “but we’re not going to do an electric version of the car just to do it.”<\/p>\n He said the Corvette will become electric when an “all-electric car is better than what we have right now. And until then, we’ll continue to do what we’re doing right now.” He added that Chevy needs to get “that visceral connection, that personality that you want to engage with, in an electric car.”<\/p>\n It’s not an outright no, even if it won\u2019t happen soon. Roma told Autocar<\/em> that “we’ll get there when it’s time,” which echoes earlier statements he made after becoming the Corvette’s new boss last year. He said just months after taking over that Chevy wasn’t “going to apply electrification just for the sake of it<\/a>.”<\/p>\n GM CEO Mary Barra supported Roma, adding that the company would be “guided by the consumer,\u201d and an electric Corvette isn\u2019t something people want right now. That might change down the road, so one should “never say never<\/a>,” like\u00a0Corvette Chief Engineer Josh Holder.<\/p>\n The Corvette ZR1 Just Put Down a Crazy Number on a Dyno<\/a> Source: Autocar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chevrolet’s desire to build an electric Corvette is dissipating. It’s been three years since General Motors President Mark ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event-coverage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2748,"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions\/2748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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