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Chevy C8 Corvette PHEV spied in winter testing with its plug showing - Autoblog
A plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Corvette C8 coupe was spotted by spy photographers while performing cold-weather testing. Beyond a plug hanging out of the car's front trunk area, we don't have many details.
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Sometimes a set of spy photos drops onto our digital desks that leave us scratching our heads trying to figure out what we're looking at. This is not one of those times. What you're looking at above quite clearly looks like a plug-in hybrid Chevy Corvette. As you can see from the images in the gallery, there's a charging harness dangling out of an opening in the car's front trunk along with a big red electric kill switch.
Now, even though we think we know what this car is, that doesn't mean we have all the salient details. For instance, beyond the fact that there's surely an internal combustion engine mounted in the middle and, assuming this is indeed a hybrid, at least one electric motor contributing thrust, we don't know what the gas engine's displacement may be or even how many cylinders that engine contains. The spy shooters who witnessed the car drive by say they thought it sounded like a V6, but that's not a lot to go on. Speculation on an electrified Corvette in the past has also included talk of all-wheel drive with an electric motor powering the front wheels and a traditional engine sending ponies to the rear.
Back when the mid-engine C8 was first unveiled, GM President Mark Reuss suggested this latest Corvette worked into GM's "strategy of 0-0-0: zero emissions, zero crashes, zero congestion." Reading between those lines, we wouldn't be surprised if a plug-in 'Vette would be able to travel solely on electric power for short jaunts. But we'd also expect any electrification to contribute to the car's overall acceleration, considering the Corvette's role as GM's high-performance flagship.
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We are placing our next 10 cars into the system be the end of the day. It will be our first 36 cars.
The whole VIN piece blows my mind. You are telling me car #1 means more than car #3,578? It is crazy collector mentality. When I turned it on over the weekend my head almost exploded hearing that the last C7 to ever be produced went for some crazy shit like $2.7 million.
I'm sure down the line the first mid engine vette ever made will worth something. Not 3M but more than car 3,578.The whole VIN piece blows my mind. You are telling me car #1 means more than car #3,578? It is crazy collector mentality. When I turned it on over the weekend my head almost exploded hearing that the last C7 to ever be produced went for some crazy shit like $2.7 million.
It's because it is for charity. Those cars wouldn't go as high if the funds weren't going to a charity. But hey, that is great these guys are happy to bid these cars up to get a lot of money to these charities.
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