Chevrolet shelves electric Corvette SUV, sedan, sports car plans - report
Half a decade after the first reports of Chevrolet expanding the Corvette family first emerged, insiders claim the plans have been axed.
Chevrolet’s Corvette brand has been successful for more than 60 years despite offering just one model, and it appears it will continue to do so after plans for an expansion were reportedly shelved.
In 2021, business news outlet Bloomberg reported the Corvette nameplate would extend to a new electric SUV, with multiple US publications later saying in 2022 that a sedan would also be on the cards.
According to specialist publication GM Authority, the Corvette family expansion was to centre around the Ford Mustang Mach-E rivalling SUV as well as an electric sports car, however both models – as well as the less likely sedan – are now no longer expected to launch.
While no specific reason behind the decision has been given, GM Authority claims a lukewarm reception to existing General Motors SUVs is likely to be a contributing factor.
Though the expansion of the Corvette nameplate into a wider family of vehicles isn’t expected to go ahead, the publication claims an electric version of the sports car is still possible and even likely.
This has been signalled by GM executives many times in the past, starting with President Mark Reuss in 2022, who said a “fully electric” version of the nameplate would follow, though no such car has materialised in the years since.
In 2024 and 2025, two concepts - one from GM’s new UK design studio and another from its California team - have shown what the Corvette could look like in the future if it does go all-electric, providing even more freedom for its overall shape.
Last month, Corvette and GM performance cars executive chief engineer, Tony Roma, told The Drive the Corvette will inevitably become an EV, as will the rest of its cars.
“This is why we don’t talk about future products,” Roma joked on The Drivecast.
“Mark did make that statement, you’re not wrong, and the future – as we’ve said publicly – as a company involves electrification, heavier and heavier as we go.
“The electric cars are the end game, so someday there will be an electric Corvette, and I think that’s what Mark was trying to say.
“Right now we have electrification on Corvette (Grand Sport X, which replaced the E-Ray), so some day we will announce something to the world, but I’m not going to take anything away from Mark’s statement.
“Someday we will fully electrify the Corvette, but not today.”
Chevrolet has previously made clear both Corvette EV concepts won’t be put into production, however we’re now in fifth year of the C8 Corvette, which means it’s coming up on the limit for production of its predecessors, and a new ‘C9’ could be not too far away.
Reuss last year told the InsideEVs Podcast that the ingredients aren’t there yet to give the iconic model full battery power.
“It [a Corvette EV] can be done. We’ve shown a slew of concept cars that are electric based,” Reuss said in October 2025.
“I wouldn’t say the propulsion system was something that was true to form on those concept cars, but [it was] very interesting, allowed us to do a lot of different things, which electric vehicles do on form and design, and the aesthetic piece.
