Jump behind the wheel of the all-new 2024 Chevy Corvette E-Ray, the company’s first all-wheel-drive and electrified Corvette. There’s no big shock here.
for decades. Sure, those voices largely belong to boomers who want to drive their cars in the snow, but the sentiment still carries. Now, conveniently, the auto industry's electric revolution combines with the C8 team's understanding that AWD would be a logical way to achieve another performance push for the.
While electric driving is not the primary function of the E-Ray's all-wheel-drive system, Chevy's engineers saw fit to equip the sports car with a pair of silent drive modes: Stealth and Shuttle. Stealth mode allows you to drive the car on battery power alone at speeds up to 40 mph. The relatively small 1.9-kWh battery will last for 3-4 miles, depending on terrain.
Wind and road noise remain, with the car's wide all-season tires increasing the volume over the Stingray's narrower rubber. The artificial touch of sci-fi whine added to the interior soundtrack was less than appreciated and eventually had us wondering if our tinnitus was flaring up. Interestingly, the interior seemed quieter at highway speeds with the convertible top retracted in a drop-top model.
The E-Ray is properly quick when it comes to straight-line speed. Using launch control produces repeatable mid-2-second blasts to 60 with very little brain power involved. A good bit of why the car is so quick comes from the all-wheel drive's added traction. Both the Stingray and Z06 exhibit a bit of wheel slip under hard acceleration, even with Corvette's exceptional traction control.
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