2026 Chevrolet Equinox EV LT front-wheel drive: A no-bells, no-whistles EV test.

Price: $36,495 as tested. No options on test vehicle; price is up by $1,500 from the 2025 model tested.

The all-wheel-drive model starts $5,000 higher and sacrifices about 10 miles of range.

Conventional wisdom: Car and Driver likes that it has “more range than rivals, competitively priced,” and is “available with Super Cruise and other tech.” They didn’t love the “underpowered front-drive model, less cargo space than the gas model, no Apple CarPlay or Android Auto.”

Marketer’s pitch: “America’s most affordable 315+ mile-range EV.”

Reality: Definitely affordable. Will it be worth the trade-offs?

Plug them in: Mr. Driver’s Seat has compiled a few EVs for comparison. So over the next two weeks you’ll see

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