Chevrolet sold 4,427 Blazer EVs in the United States from January through the third quarter of 2026, down from 20,825 in the same stretch of 2025, according to Kelley Blue Book figures reported by Electrek on Oct. 13. The drop of more than 16,000 vehicles works out to nearly 80 percent, and it landed in the same week that Chevrolet nudged the 2027 model’s price upward by $300.
Electrek attributed the slide to the end of the federal $7,500 tax credit, which expired in 2025. The credit’s disappearance reshaped the whole market, and the Blazer EV shows the effect in an unusually stark form.
4,427 against 20,825: what the Kelley Blue Book count shows
The comparison in Electrek’s Blazer EV report sets the first three quarters of 2026 against the first three quarters of 2025, so it is a like-for-like nine-month comparison and not a single bad quarter. Kelley Blue Book, the Cox Automotive pricing and research brand, supplied the numbers. Electrek credits them to Cox Automotive’s third-quarter EV sales commentary and reports that sales have fallen nearly 80 percent since the credit expired.
One caution applies to the base year. The 2025 comparison period includes the rush before the credit ended: Electrek’s separate report on Kelley Blue Book pricing describes September 2025 as the last month before the $7,500 credit expired, and national coverage at the time described a surge in EV sales ahead of the Sept. 30 deadline. A 2025 base inflated by buyers pulling purchases forward makes 2026’s decline look steeper, though it does not explain a four-fifths drop on its own.
Spread across the nine months, the arithmetic is blunt. A total of 4,427 sales averages roughly 490 vehicles a month, where 20,825 averaged a little over 2,300. At 2025’s pace the Blazer EV was one of the more visible electric crossovers on dealer lots; at the 2026 pace it is a far smaller presence, which is a difficult position for a vehicle that Chevrolet has just given a new charging port, a refreshed option list and a higher price.
The gap of 16,398 sales is also not a measure of lost demand alone. Some of the 2025 total was buyers who would have purchased later and bought early to claim the credit, while the 2026 total comes from a market where average EV discounts fell to 11 percent of the transaction price in September from 14.2 percent a year earlier. Electrek’s account does not split those effects, and neither does the Kelley Blue Book data it cites, so the accurate reading is that sales fell sharply, and that the tax credit’s expiry is the cause the reporting names.
A cheaper car, a harder sell
The Blazer EV is not priced out of line with the market. Kelley Blue Book put the average new EV at $55,879 in September, according to Electrek’s report on September EV prices, and the 2027 Blazer EV LT FWD starts at $46,795 with destination. That puts the entry model roughly $9,000 under the category average, and the same report notes that discounts averaged 11 percent of the transaction price in September, the lowest of 2026 and down from 14.2 percent a year earlier.
That second figure may matter more than the sticker. Electrek notes that the best Blazer EV deals now sit on outgoing 2026 models, so a buyer looking at a 2026 leftover may pay less than the 2027 starting price implies. A shrinking discount pool on the whole market, combined with a missing federal credit, takes about $7,500 plus a larger share of dealer incentives out of what a shopper pays relative to a year ago.
The product changes for 2027 are meant to counter that. The new model swaps the old CCS connector for a native NACS port, as Electrek reported in April, which gives owners access to Tesla Superchargers without an adapter. Range is rated up to 312 miles on the front-wheel-drive LT and RS, and an eight-speaker Bose system is now optional on those trims.
Blazer EV pricing against its 2026 sticker
An earlier Electrek report on the 2027 lineup listed the LT FWD at $44,700 before destination, and the October table lists it at $45,000. Both numbers are higher than many shoppers expected a year ago, and both sit above the Tesla Model Y at $41,380, the Hyundai Ioniq 5 at $36,900 and the Toyota bZ at $36,575, the rivals Electrek lists in its October comparison.
Electrek’s reporting frames the sales figure as GM’s total for the model through the third quarter, which means the 2027 price increase will be tested against a buyer pool that has already shrunk. The sales slump leaves a real question about the model’s volume plan: whether a $300 increase, a charging-port change and a Bose speaker option can lift a model from 4,427 sales in nine months, on a car whose entry price is now higher than it was a few months ago. Buyers can check current pricing on Kelley Blue Book’s 2027 Blazer EV page.
This article was produced with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Morning Overview editors prior to publication.
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