2025 Chevrolet Blazer EV RS Review: Stylish Design and Advanced Tech

Theres something to be said about never showing your hand. Take our yearlong review 2025 Chevrolet Blazer EV RS for example. From the outside, it looks like something an agent in the United States Secret Service would drive. Its black paint and black badging give the electric SUV a subtle yet sleek appearance, with lighting signatures emphasizing its on-road presence.

The 2025 Chevrolet Blazer EV RS impresses with its Adrenaline Red interior, contrasting its sleek black exterior. It offers upscale materials, ample space, and advanced tech, but has minor issues with build quality and user interface. Overall, it's a stylish and well-equipped electric SUV.

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What We Like

Whenever someone new goes for a ride in the Blazer EV, they invariably remark on how much they love the red seats. The Adrenaline Red elements of the interior use Chevys Evotex material and extend to the armrests, door panels, center console, dashboard, and center console corners. All-red chairs can look gaudy, but Chevy does a good job breaking up the visuals with its perforated suede inlays and headrests.

Compare the quality of the interior materials on our Blazer EV RS with the gasoline-only Blazer RS, and the difference is astounding. Although the cockpits both use the Camaro-style round vents (RIP), our long-termer has a lot more soft-touch surfaces and a far more attractive center stack. Chevy has struggled to make its interiors look premium for some time, but the Blazer EVs cabin is convincingly upscale.

Chevy takes the appropriate measures to ensure the Blazer EVs occupants dont get too hot or too cold. The RS RWD trim comes standard with dual-zone climate control, with physical temperature control knobs for the driver and passenger side. Up front, the seats are heated and ventilated. In the second row, the outboard seats are heated. Chevy also bundles in a heated steering wheel.

Once youre situated in the Blazer EV RS after youve used the power controls to adjust your seat and the memory functions to save your settings, your attention inevitably turns to the massive displays ahead of you. The driver display measures 11.0 inches, and the 17.7-inch infotainment screen runs a Google built-in operating system; Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are not offered.

Chevy offers five different cluster views: single gauge, dual gauge, map, driver assistance, and clean. Single gauge is our favorite of the lot. It consolidates range, speed, and power flow into a single central pod while allowing other driving information, navigation, or entertainment information to be displayed on its flanks. Chevy makes the most of this space and does so with attractive graphics.

The Google built-in suite performs well, especially if youve logged into your Google account. In the pre-installed Google Maps app, you have access to your pinned or favorited locations with Google Assistant voice commands. Speaking of Google Assistant, weve enjoyed the softwares snappy responsiveness. We frequently use voice commands to request songs to play on Spotify or YouTube Music, allowing us to keep our eyes on the road while driving.

Chevy also did a solid job providing charging options throughout the Blazer EVs cabin. Up front, there are two USB-C ports under the center consoles sliding storage bin. Rear-seat passengers also have access to dual USB-C ports below the air vents.

RS models come standard with wireless phone charging, which is conveniently positioned between the driver and passenger at the end of the armrest. Our only gripe with this feature is that theres nothing to indicate exactly where your phone should be positioned aside from an error icon that appears at the top of the infotainment display. You have to keep nudging your device back and forth until the icon changes to show the charge is working.

If you want to charge your phone with a cable, Chevy includes a shelf deep under the infotainment display where you can stash it. Storage solutions like this make for great daily usability. There are wide door pockets, two bins between the driver and passenger, and front cupholders that can accommodate larger vessels.

The final praiseworthy aspect of our long-term Blazer EVs cabin is its generous interior space. The front row feels wide, giving lots of shoulder room for the driver and passenger to feel relaxed, though some of our staff think the seats need more bolstering. The same goes for the second row, which feels particularly roomy. Our passengers have also loved the amount of legroom they get.

We put our Blazer EVs cargo volume to the test by moving a pre-assembled bookshelf measuring 5 feet, 8 inches tall that we found on Facebook Marketplace. We flipped down the right rear seat, passed the shelves through, and fit the entire piece of furniture behind the front passenger seat. My wife could still sit comfortably in that seat with room to spare.

Underneath the floor of the trunk, the Blazer EV has a secondary storage area with a shelf for the charging-cable carrying bag and other emergency equipment. The rest of the space is left open with a wide plastic bin that can easily hold several bags of groceries. If you want to keep stuff hidden, this is the place for it.

What Could Be Better

While we overwhelmingly find our 2025 Chevrolet Blazer EV RS interior to be a nice place, weve noted some negatives over the last few months. Our nitpicks begin with the cheap-feeling turn signal and column shifting stalks: Theres a very weak click when you move them into place. The stalks in our Blazer EV tend to wiggle about, as well.

Weve also detected some build quality shortcomings. Songs with more bass than average tend to rattle interior plastics. This problem seems to be more related to audio frequency than volume, but its annoying to hear a buzz coming from what sounds like the door panel. Driving over bigger bumps or rougher surfaces can produce squeaks and rattles from the interior, as well.

Our final complaint is about the number of commonly used features that have been scattered throughout the main infotainment displays menus. Although our Blazer EV has a lot of physical controls for the HVAC settings, Chevy has taken other important functions like the headlights and made them adjustable via the touchscreen. Fortunately, theres a physical knob for volume adjustment and a capacitive touch button on the ridge of the display above.

Our car has no power button and turns on when you put a foot on the brake pedal. It turns off when you shift it to park, open the door, and take your foot off the brake pedal. However, if you put a foot back on the brake pedal with the door open, the Blazer EV turns back on. It wont turn off unless you hit the power off button on the touchscreen and then confirm that you do in fact want to power down. Its especially inconvenient if youre already outside the car and realize that youve accidentally turned it on again.

A Royal Flush?

While our 2025 Blazer EV RS RWD certainly has a poker face with its somewhat conservative exterior colorway, the vibrant interior has been a pleasant surprise. Chevy has made leaps forward when it comes to designing interiors that both look cool and feel special. Like all cars, our Blazer EV has its quirks, but these weaknesses are largely offset by thoughtful packaging and slick software. The Blazer EVs cabin may not be a royal flush, but our long-term SUV certainly has a few cards up its sleeve.