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- What's up you guys?

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I'm sitting in a 2024
Chevrolet Equinox EV.

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This is the 2LT
front wheel drive model.

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It starts around $45,000.

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The pricing and trim structure
is gonna change for 2025,

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so this is the 2024 model.

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All you need to know is it is the LT model

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and it is front wheel drive.

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That means it has a 319 mile range,

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which Chevrolet says is
incredibly accurate from

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what I understand.

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319 miles at this price point

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for what you get in the Chevy Equinox EV,

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I'm really excited to drive this car.

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And Chevrolet's doing
an activation with Erewhon

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where they give you juice,

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an Erewhon juice called
EV Electric Juice.

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It's blue, which is mildly concerning,

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but it contains almond milk, coconut milk,

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plant-based protein powder, maple syrup,

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blue spirulina powder, vanilla extract,

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and Himalayan pink salt.

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I've never had an Erewhon juice

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before, so I don't even know how it opens.

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If you're unfamiliar Erewhon is this

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incredibly fancy bougie grocery store in

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LA and I'm gonna give it a shot.

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They're known for like
juices and smoothies

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and stuff that are exorbitantly expensive.

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But Chevrolet is currently
giving away free EV Juice

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with a test drive

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of the New Equinox EV, which
is what I'm doing now.

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So, cheers. Here's the electric juice.

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It smells like almond milk,

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it tastes like cereal milk,
a little like Fruit Loops,

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a little cereal milk after if
you had a bowl of Fruit Loops.

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It tastes like that
afterward, but it's not bad.

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Wouldn't pay 20 bucks for
it. But I'm a cheapskate.

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But that is to say

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that the Equinox EV is really affordable

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and it's entirely eligible for
the full federal tax credit,

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which means you get $7,500
off the price of this vehicle

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that's already affordable.

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The one LT model starts at $35,000.

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This just has a few
more options than that,

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but it is the same
drivetrain, front wheel drive.

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This has more options.

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This has Super Cruise and
a couple other things.

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I've only had a quick moment
to drive it since I'm kind

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of stealing it from Chevy as
they're doing this activation,

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which I wore my my heartbeat

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of America hat today to celebrate.

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But let's get moving in the

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Equinox EV and see what we think.

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First thing I'm gonna say is
there is horrific glare on the

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windshield from whatever
the dashboard design is.

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I'm in the hills right
now and it's a narrow road

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and I need to be able to see
everything in this really

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gnarly glare, which is not ideal.

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But so far I have only
driven it a little bit

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and I'm super impressed with everything.

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It's quiet, it has enough power.

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It's not like crazy power
that's gonna, you know,

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knock your socks off or anything,

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but this is not a vehicle
that's really intended

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to do any of that kind of stuff.

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It's an affordable family sized crossover

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vehicle that's happens to be electric

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and it's really impressive in

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achieving that task.

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The Blazer EV I've
driven previously feels,

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I don't know, it's, it's kind
of a little fancier I feel,

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but this honestly has the
same quality on the interior

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and I really enjoy it in
this a lot more than I

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did in the Blazer.

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You do get some torque
steer if you step on the

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accelerator too hard, but
it's not unreasonable.

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It's nothing you wouldn't
see in any other front

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wheel drive vehicle.

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The interior's incredibly spacious.

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I'm 6ft 8in as I
say in every freaking video,

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and I have plenty of room up
front and I sat behind myself

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and it's not necessarily
the most spacious,

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but I will say I fit behind myself.

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I feel like I have the same amount of room

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behind my comfortable driving
position in the second row

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of seats that I did in the Lexus GX,

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which is a much larger three row vehicle.

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I like the looks of this
thing, it looks really sharp.

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I don't know if it's going
to appeal to everyone.

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I chose to drive the 2LT trim today

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because I think it looks
cooler than the RS trim.

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The 2LT trim has a body color kind

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of grill, faux grill section
that the RS is painted black,

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and it's an EV, it doesn't need a grill.

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I say paint a body color and
let it look futuristic and,

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and this succeeds in that
very much.

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I feel like it's, it's
pretty standard GM seats,

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which is not a bad thing.

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They're comfortable, they're

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spacious, they're, they're great.

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The material in here, I don't
know, it's probably not real,

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but it's comfortable

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and it's actually squishier than I've

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experienced in other GM product.

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So I'm a, I really like this.

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I'm excited to recommend
the Equinox EV to people

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because it's affordable

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and you get good range over
300 miles in this front wheel

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drive configuration.

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This has Super Cruise as well,

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so you get some lu