What was Chevrolet’s first production electric vehicle, introduced in 1997?

Chevrolet’s first production electric vehicle, introduced in 1997, was the Chevrolet S-10 EV.

The S-10 EV was an electric version of Chevrolet’s compact S-10 pickup truck. It used a lead-acid battery pack and an electric motor, with the batteries mounted beneath the truck bed. Chevrolet developed it primarily for fleet customers and limited public sales rather than as a high-volume consumer vehicle.

The S-10 EV arrived decades before Chevrolet’s better-known Volt and Bolt EV. The Volt, launched for the 2011 model year, was a plug-in hybrid with a gasoline engine used as a generator, while the Bolt EV was a fully electric hatchback introduced for the 2017 model year. The Spark EV followed the Volt in the 2010s, making it another commonly confused model when identifying Chevrolet’s earliest production EV.