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CORVETTE TODAY EXTRA - Harlan Charles Talks Everything E-Ray!
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May 8, 2025
Corvette Marketing & Brand Manager, Harlan Charles returns to CORVETTE TODAY with your host, Steve Garrett, to talk about the new 2024 Corvette E-Ray. Harlan gives us an extensive overview is this revolutionary new Corvette and give us insight never heard before about the upcoming E-Ray. You don't want to miss this CORVETTE TODAY Extra. Harlan Charles and the new Corvette E-Ray, in detail, on CORVETTE TODAY!
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manager Harlan Charles is back on the show to give us an in-depth look at the new Corvette e-ray Harlan welcome back
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to Corvette today thanks Steve thanks for having me it's great to have you back buddy let's talk about everything
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e-ray it is so cool that you guys introduced the e-rate on the exact same day that the Corvette was introduced to
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the world back on January 17 1953. talk about some of the historical
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connections that you guys made there yeah so in New York City you know the world Astoria Hotel like you said
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January 17 1953 the original Corvette was introduced and actually we went back
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to New York to introduce the e-ray 70 years later now some connections actually if people who read up on
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Corvette history know about Zora R castanto that's when he first saw the Corvette as well in New York and decided
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he was going to apply to Chevrolet because being from Europe he saw hey here's an American sports car that I can
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get involved with and make this a competitor editor for the best of Europe he was really inspired by it and ultimately down the road actually if you
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go to 1964 Zora developed the serve two which was the first all-wheel drive
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mid-engine sports car of any type that was ever designed and now you go into
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the future which is now we have a mid-engine all-wheel drive sports car they're kind of neat things too you look
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at that 1953 Corvette it had 150 horsepower engine up front this car the
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new e-ray has 160 horsepower electric motor up front plus of course a 495
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horsepower v8 behind you right now let's talk about some of the origins of the name e-ray I like that name yes so who
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is looking at names for Corvette and you know you look at historical Corvette names like Stingray you know with rays
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and sharks so looking through online different types of rays and sharks and there actually is a creature called an
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electric ray saw that and back in 2015 mean we had that trademarked in
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anticipation of the future thinking that we would have electrification someday and some form with Corvette I thought
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that was a perfect name for this it is it really is now the e-ray represents firsts for many reason all-wheel drive
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we've got electric hybrid talk about some of the other firsts for the e-ray well like you said first all-wheel drive
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Corvette first with electrification some of the things in the car like the all-season tires for example are
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probably the widest all season tires ever created as far as I know the other thing that's interesting like when they
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say electrification simply so why don't you call it a hybrid well the difference is technically yes hybrid but we have
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the way it's separated out so it's two independent systems so the front wheels
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controlled by the electric motor are separate from the rear wheels controlled by the small block V8 and it's still
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clever software engineering that they are in sync and connected and able to
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function as a unit you get the torque cell you get the all-wheel drive where a lot of our competitors they had to go to
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a V6 to make room for their electric motor and some of their cars so we look at Ferrari McLaren their V6 rear drive
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rear a V8 with all-wheel drive so I think we have the better overall solution to adding electrification to a
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sports car I would agree now the e-rate configuration is very special we've got the wide body of the Z06 the lt2 engine
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with 495 horsepower and we've got carbon ceramic brakes with larger wheels and
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tires as a matter of fact these all-season michelins are a first as well aren't they yeah they're all performance
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all season and that's something early on we worked with Michelin to do because we really wanted to take advantage of the
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all-wheel drive performance and make this if you desire a year-round sports car that you can drive in all conditions
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so it is the same tire size as the Z06 and then you can also option up if you
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live enough warmer climate or you just want even higher grip performance you can what we call the Zer package which
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gets you the PS4s tires which are the Z06 tires on this car very nice now we
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have new colors as well Harlan we have Riptide blue cacti green and the one I love is the sea wolf gray with the
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Artemis interior talk about some of the new colors yeah so we introduced in our
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show cars for the e-ray some of the new 2024 colors that will be on all the
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Corvettes so the riptide blue with metallic is of course a really rich bright blue a Seawolf gray is actually a
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tri-coat a lot of people are excited about that gives it kind of a Sinister look and you get back into the Green
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Space a little with this cacti green it's a little bit of a green gray but that Artemis interior mentioned is
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really designed to go with it it also has kind of a subtle green leather appearance and even the seat belts match
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so that's one of the show cars has that combination and a lot of people actually are surprised how well that comes off
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together that sounds really cool I'm anxious to see a cacti green e-ray coming out with the interior I'm really
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looking forward to that now the horsepower is amazing with the lt2 engine from the stingray combined with
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the electric motor in front with 160 horsepower and 125 pound-feet of torque by the way that gives us 655 horsepower
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it's an amazing setup talk about that and how it's different from some of the other competition yeah so like you said
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655 total horsepower I didn't mention that before a little bit different because we maintained the V8 and the
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all-wheel drive where a lot of the competitors in the high performance supercars did V6 and rear drive we
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actually have the only V8 all-wheel drive in our immediate competitors you actually have to go to like that Ferrari
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sf90 which is it's an 800 000 car to get a V8 all-wheel drive until electrification in a high performance
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sports car you get the 655 horsepower you also get 125 pound-feet of torque in
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the front and 4 470 in the rear combined and you can't really add them exactly but because it's different Source front
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wheels rear wheels what that does is something you really feel on the road because that enables at 0 to 60 and 2.5
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which is amazing you know it's the fastest 0-60 time we've ever had and you
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get that because of that instant torque you get with the electric motor and then it gets you started and then as the V8
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kicks in and adds that together for a perfect launch it's got that feeling where your stomach is a couple blocks
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behind you as you get going it's really accelerates like nothing I've ever felt before that's crazy 2.5 seconds zero to
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60. that's amazing oh yeah and 10.5 in the quarter mile as well so again this
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is the quickest accelerating Corvette of all time just narrowly ahead of the Z06 the e-ray is a car that really does a
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lot of things well from acceleration to all weather to comfortable road trips I
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think a lot of people are going to appreciate that absolutely right well buddy let's take our first break when we
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come back we'll talk more about some e-ray specs Harlan Charles the marketing and brand manager for Corvette is here
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833-840-5334 I'm your host Steve Garrett with me is Corvette marketing and brand manager Harlan Charles we're talking
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everything e-ray in the second segment we're going to get into more specific specs on the car we have two new driving
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modes for the e-rate we have stealth mode and shuttle mode talk about those two modes and the differences between
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them and what you see on the DIC the driver information center and also the nav screen for those modes yeah so let's
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talk about stealth mode first and that's the one I think people will use a lot you start it and you put it in stealth
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mode it's really in like the E front will drive only so this is like a front-wheel drive electric Corvette and
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a V8 stays off and you can drive you can use that to exit your house or your neighborhood quietly or if there's a lot
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of traffic or things like that and it'll stay there until either you go over 45
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miles an hour or you go over a certain throttle like you need that acceleration right now or you know it could go for
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several miles until the state of charge it's low enough and then what happens is you look it has a special gauge display
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in the cluster in front of you when it is in the stealth mode and then it'll tell you so you can monitor it if you're
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trying to stay there you know how fast you can go and then when the V8 kicks on it switches over and transforms into
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your traditional Corvette gauge cluster and it kind of celebrates the Awakening of the small block V8 so it's a lot of
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fun to use and I think people are going to enjoy that as well as demonstrates what the technology can do the shuttle
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mode is a little bit different the shuttle mode was kind of a side benefit where it's not used for the Street at
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all you ever been in a situation where you just want to move your car around a little bit you don't really want to
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start it up maybe it's the winner or maybe it's just in the garage or you just want to keep it quiet you want to
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move it around the garage or a paddock or maybe you're taking pictures so this is a EV mode like the stealth mode but
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it just goes up to about 15 miles an hour and it's just used to temporarily move or position your car around either
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garage or for scenery or taking pictures or something like that where you don't want to start the engine nice it's kind
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of a neat additional feature that you can do yeah now engine output and electric output are shown differently on
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the navigation screen that's pretty cool too talk about that yeah so we have what we call it the e-ray app it's on the
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center screen you know like you said where you see your navigation and it has several displays and it's really a great
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way to see this technology in action so there's a gauge display and it'll show the front electric power and the rear
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power in either horsepower or you can put it in kilowatts and then there's a dino screen where you can see over time
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a graphical representation of the power flow and there's an additional data
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display too it'll show you how much charge is used how much boost you use how much fuel you save by having the
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Electric System it really is kind of a fun thing to watch you know to see these displays in the car and see the
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technology in action that's really cool now the batteries are stored in the center spine of the e-ray let's talk
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about how the front engine regenerates power and how the batteries are stored within that spine yeah so you know when
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we were developing the eighth generation architecture you know going to mid-engine early on this was one of the
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ideas that we discussed was that we could take advantage of this unlike with the previous Prime engine architecture
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to do a car like this where we still have the structural tunnel in the car but now it's mostly basically was empty
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we thought we could use that for the batteries and then the electric motor we could position behind the front storage
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area area and kind of an empty space and that really helps maintain both trunks
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front and rear so the car is still a great travel car a lot of people were concerned that you know when the rumors
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of this came out oh it's not going to have the front storage it's only going to have the rear but no you still get
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the large front trunk and rear it's really a clever packaging enabled by the 8th generation mid-engine architecture I
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think so too I was so excited to see that you basically don't lose any space in the front storage area in the front
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how much does that engine in the front weigh well overall it's pretty light and
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compact as much as we could I compared to the Z06 it's probably a little over
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about 150 kilograms I'd say about 250 pounds for the batteries and the engine
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put together got it in that range so it does add some weight but it more than pays for itself with this incredible
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performance and attributes that the car now has so it may seem a little heavy for a Corvette for what we're used to
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but but it really makes the car more efficient and higher performance definitely
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the Magnetic Ride is the fe5 let's talk about why the fe5 Magnetic Ride is
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perfect for this car we developed a new chassis for this car fe5 again thinking
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about the Persona of this car a little bit more luxury sport where the Z06 is
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more like the closest thing to a street legal race car but this would be a little bit more for touring so it's a
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little more comfortable using the Magnetic Ride system and then also we made standard the carbon ceramic brakes
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because that saves about 30 pounds of unsprung mass and it's also if you compare to a Z06 it's a 8 500 option on
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the Z06 a lot of people are looking at the pricing thinking oh the erase almost as much but if you look at that and you
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look at the standard body color accents hopefully no gas closer attacks and things like that anticipated there's a
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lot of value in there believe it or not definitely let's also talk about the ceramic brakes for the e-rate because
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that's a big deal yeah so like I said standard ceramic brake saves about 30 pounds you can get all the brake caliper
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color options similar to the Z06 it really fits this car well because of the
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weight we wanted to keep the weight down as much as we could and then also you have the increased longevity of it a lot
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of people note that less brake dust and things like that yeah that's a big thing that's a big deal amongst all of us
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Corvette drivers is the brake dust situation also we are returning to the side mounted dual exhaust which is nice
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as well it looks like the stingray exhaust yeah it has the exhaust similar to this thing right but it is the
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performance exhaust where a lot of people know the code the NPP exhaust is standard on the e-ray so that's why you
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get 4.95 for the V8 added to the 160 for the 655 horsepower and then you get the
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different sound modes as well you know towards Sport and track and things like that excellent and the thing that I like
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most about this car you don't have to plug it in that's outstanding right you
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don't have to actually you can't there is no plug there's nothing like that a lot of people are worried about that oh
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do I have to install a special thing in my garage or do I have to find charging stations the car is totally
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self-charging it charges mostly when braking or it can even charge when you're coasting and so it's something
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you don't even have to think about you can drive it you know that's one thing when we talk to a lot of our customers
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and other sports cars for this segment people who want high performance sports cars they really saw this as The Best of
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Both Worlds where you're combining the legendary small block V8 The Sounds the experience the feels that people want in
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a sports car and we're using electrification to add to the performance add to the capability and
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things like that so it's not replacing it's adding excellent that's outstanding buddy let's take our final break and
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when we come back we're going to talk more about the e-ray and the specs I've got Corvette marketing and brand manager
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833-840-5334 I'm your host Steve Garrett with me is Corvette marketing and brand manager Harlan Charles we are talking
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everything e-ray in this final segment we're going to talk about some of the little particulars that make a big
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difference first of all Harlan we do have a lot of first like we talked about in segment one let's talk more about the
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two buttons on the side of the center console let's talk about what they do okay so we have two new buttons like you
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said on the console one is charge plus and one is stop start so the charge plus
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is really if you want to make sure you have a full state of charge in the battery it'll optimize the driving to
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keep that charge full and you might want to do that if you're doing a lot of laps on the track maybe you're doing a lot of
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snow driving or something like that where you want to make sure you have all-wheel drive the car will do that on
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its own but if you just want to make sure you can push that stop start is really a feature it's really the first
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time we've had that on Corvette in order to take advantage of some of this technology so it'll only be functional
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in the tour mode just like a lot of cars you've been in it'll stop if you're waiting for the traffic light stop the engine and things like that if you don't
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like that you want to defeat it it's basically a defeat button for that feature so the driver can select if they
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like it or not excellent also we have nice wheel options too talk about the different wheel options and here's
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another question are the carbon fiber Wheels an option for this e-ray yes so we have four new aluminum wheel options
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for finishes this is a unique five spoke aluminum wheel that was designed specifically for e-ray only I think it's
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one of the best wheels we've had ever done it comes standard in Pearl nickel you can get it in carbon flash with the
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machined Edge there's a full gloss Black version and a bright polish and I know a
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lot of people have asked for brighter wheels and this is probably the brightest wheel we've done on the 8th
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generation car it looks beautiful nice and then on carbon fiber we've made the
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carbon fiber Wheels available for the e-ray we'll have the painted carbon flash of course the visible carbon weave
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and of course new fur 2024 will be a visible carbon with a red stripe one of
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the early cars we've done for show and display has that on there so it's really a cool very nice yeah I'd like to see
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that carbon fiber wheel with red trim you know me and carbon fiber right also I'd love the special Racing Stripes
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let's talk about the racing stripes and the updated Stingray logo for e-ray yeah
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so we have a new specific electric blue stripe which is on our silver reveal
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card the other color Stripes will also be available on the e-ray that we've had but you may notice it's a little bit
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different design a little bit wider yeah and they have a subtle outlined Edge to them which helps them pop a little bit
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more and then on the badging like I mentioned before there really is a electric ray creature that we named this
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after so we kind of modified the stingray on the trunk to be a little bit newer it has two vents on it you can see
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the body color come through and there's also e-ray badges on the quarters as well we've got a lot of compliments that
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people like the way that looks the new era badge design yeah I'd like them as well talk about ground effects for this
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e-ray so it'll have the standard Arrow package it has the Rockers and the
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spoiler and the front splitter similar to Z06 and you can option up for the carbon fiber ground effects the larger
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front splitter and rockers and either painted carbon flash or visible carbon fiber gotcha will a larger Wing be
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available for the e-ray or will it be that standard Wing that's on the launch edition cars well you'll have to stay
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standard Wing if you get the Zer package with the higher performance tires you'll
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get the taller Wickers for track use on there and then we'll also have an accessory carbon fiber spoiler available
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for the e-ray very nice now can you still get front end lift on this e-ray yes of course you can still get front
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lift as an option just like on the other Corvettes that sounds great now the torque is amazing we talked a little bit
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about that in the first segment and the engine noise is a lot different too isn't it well first of all the takeoff
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and tour like I was mentioned before you get that instant torque with the electric motor and then the V8 kicks in
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so you get that incredible launch now the noise is pretty similar I mean it is still in the small block V8 that we love
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with the standard performance exhaust but you do hear a little bit of the electric motor too kicking in sometimes
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so it really is fun to have the combination of both sounds and of course with coordinates we love are V8 engine
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sound and of course that is there you know when rumors of this car came out you hear oh I want to hear it so you can
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hear it definitely and you can hear that in our videos as well fantastic now in a perfect world Harlan when would you like
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to see this e-ray be available for customer delivery well it's a 2024 model year car so we'll be out you know later
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this calendar year and the perfect world be out the same time as all our new 24 models so we'll have Stingray ZO6 and
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e-ray and the Corvette family now very nice now the e-rate customer is going to be different than a Z06 customer and I
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heard Aaron Link in a video congratulate you and give you credit for saying the Z06 is like a switchblade and the e-ray
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is like the Swiss army knife was that your idea your analogy yeah because the e-ray is a car that does a lot of things
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well so it's like you know you can pull out the right tool for the job whether it's acceleration whether it's all-wheel
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drive whether it's carving up your favorite Mountain Road driving in different weather conditions decent fuel
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efficiency relatively with a zero six like he's saying yeah is the scalpel it's really racing technology for the
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street it's for someone that I want the closest thing to that c8r race car experience in a street legal car and for
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track days and track times and things like that so again if you look at the sports car Continuum everything from the
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street legal race car to the luxury GT with a Z06 of course is the racing Focus this car although vast in its own right
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has all the performance you could want in a Corvette it comes in a little bit more sophisticated way and makes the car
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maybe a better all-around long distance driver use for all four seasons can
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drive it anywhere on road and I think there may be some customers who wanted to move up from Stingray but didn't want
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to go so track focused or maybe some customers from some of the imported luxury sports cars you look at Aston
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Martin BMW Audi things like that that may have thought the Corvette was a little too raw for them even though we
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know those are the thoughts who drive Corvettes there are very comfortable to drive and in all conditions this may be the ticket with its advanced technology
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to attract some of them to the Corvette family and we'll welcome them in because they're going to get a great experience
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obviously definitely it is the Swiss army knife for sure well buddy thank you so much for being back on Corvette today
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congratulations on the e-ray can't wait to see it at an upcoming show and get it
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out on the streets with everybody else thanks and once again you do a great job on your podcast and really appreciate
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