General Motors’ GM Evolve division has just revealed its Police Pursuit Vehicle Package for the 2024 electric Blazer and its crammed with features designed to make life easy for police officers out in the field, and for their fleet managers who have to pay out every time they get damaged.
So while the PPV is based on the sporty
civilian Blazer SS package, it features special 20-inch steel wheels covering
its Brembo brake package, underbody skid plates and a certified speedometer.
There are standard power folding mirrors – but the liftgate is manual because
no cop has go time to wait for an electric version to cycle through its moves –
a rear camera mirror and a Protected Idle feature for the keyless entry system
that allows the emergency equipment to run for 20-50 hours with a full battery.
Standard equipment includes special
police-spec cloth-covered front seats built to work with duty belts and vests,
and a vinyl bench out back, but there are plenty of options available,
including a detective package that brings a retail center console, cloth rear
seats and carpeted flooring, a package to render the rear doors and windows
inoperative, wiring for siren speakers, Whelen ION light heads mounted on each
exterior corner, and even a DLR-delete option for extra stealthy stakeouts.
Like all Blazers, this one is built around
GM’s Ultium platform, and while the bi-motor, all-wheel drive powertrain’s 498
hp output doesn’t match the 557 hp of the civilian SS, it
should still make the 209 km/h cop Blazer reasonably punchy off the
line and the low center of gravity and near 50:50 weight distribution ought to
mean the handling is decent too. What’ll be equally important to police forces
thinking about investing in a fleet is the claimed 402 km range
(even loaded down with emergency equipment), ability to add 114 km of charge in 10 minutes, and GM’s 8-year, 160,000 km warranty.
Chevy announced last month that while the
Blazer RS will be available later this year, the hot Blazer SS has been delayed
until spring 2024, and we’d expect the PPV to arrive around the same time.
