From Muscle Coupe to EV Sedan: Next Chevy Camaro might be a 4-door EV

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Gird your loins, bowtie fans. A report out of Detroit from the industry insiders at Automotive News suggests the next Camaro could be all-electric and — gasp! — might sprout a couple of extra doors.

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The news of an EV drivetrain should surprise no one, since the market is moving in that direction and GM has earmarked eleventy gazillion dollars ( US$35 billion , actually) towards the development and production of new electric vehicles. Some of their brands, such as Cadillac, are even saying they will “exit this decade” solely as a purveyor of electrified automobiles . It’s also worth noting that, deployed properly, an EV can produce world-destroying power and acceleration, a trait very much in line with the Camaro ethos.

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But a Camaro sedan ? That’s a bridge too far.

Of course, we’ve been down this road before. Ford has appended the mighty Mustang name onto an all-electric four-door crossover, after all. Once all the wailing and gnashing of teeth settled down, most of us found the Mach-E to be a lot more entertaining than its body style might suggest. After all, the mighty GT Performance can apparently accelerate to highway speeds in eyeball-flattening 3.5 seconds. If an all-electric Camaro ZL1 1LE sedan can do the same, who are we to argue with progress? Also, recall the eCOPO Camaro shown above.

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Aiding these rumours is the fact that GM hasn’t imbued the Camaro with any significant updates in far too long, leading to a drop in sales. This isn’t the first time the company has let Camaro wither on the vine, with the fourth-gen car enduring a decade-long run before having its plug pulled just in time for Dearborn to trot out an all-new Mustang of which they then went on to sell hand-over-fist.

None of this is confirmed, since the future product plans of a major automaker tend to be more fluid than the weather forecast.