NOT Your Typical Electric Car...

Let's see if I can, what happens if I switch drive modes

Oh, oh, oh yes, okay. This is the new Corvette E-Ray. It is the fastest accelerating Corvette ever

because it's helped by the fact that it's a hybrid. It has a little bit of electric going on, slight

You still got that big old motor in the back. then you've got this electric kind of filling in the gaps giving you that buzz that little

extra burst it is a marriage of the old and the new and i have to say it's a little bit fun

like to get all that and all you got to do is press you know all you gotta do is press and hold

You press, you hold. It's not an electric car by any means

It's only an enhanced version. Now, there are other versions. Some might be faster around a racetrack, but in a straight line, that electric component

is the fastest accelerating ever. When they rolled it in, you're like, this thing was made for these lights, for this studio

Look at all the angles and stuff. It sort of looks like far more expensive cars

And arguably, the performance is similar to far more expensive cars as well

Big carbon ceramic brakes and you have the mid-engine setup so everything feels so planted

Plus it's four-wheel drive unlike most Corvettes which are going to be rear-wheel drive and be a little bit squirrelier

So this one just feels extremely planted. Like the way you open the door, like this whole aerodynamic piece just becomes the door handle

Plus that's a solid closure there. And I don't know, I don't know which angle I like best when I'm looking at this vehicle

I might actually like the back. There's a lot going on. It's just it's jet fighter feeling back

here. You can see the black accents along the bottom. For me what this does is it just sort of

makes the whole thing look more slim because your eyes kind of cancel out this section. It just looks

really slim and quick. We have the Stingray emblem up on top and this does open up. Now it's important

to note this is not like a plug-in hybrid. There's no charging this battery without driving it. You

just drive it for a short period of time. It charges up really quickly. It's not a huge battery

it's just ready when you need a boost you can drive around on electric only in like a stealth

mode but only for very low speeds it's not really an intended use it's more like hey i want to exit

my neighborhood without waking everybody up because you can hear this thing look at this

look at this how beautiful this giant piece is you can also see the camera on the back there

not a tremendous amount of visibility out of the glass but because of that camera and the rear view

mirror setup, which you can flip down in order to see a video feed out from that camera, you really

don't lose very much visibility. Every time you open up your trunk, you get to appreciate your

engine. How cool is that? Every single time that you access this, you get to say, wow, look at this

beautiful motor. This is your trunk. And for a car like this, I mean, that's still pretty good

Luggage and golf clubs. Yeah, they're in there in a moment. Now, let me show you the soft close

here. I just bring this down to this point and it squeezes itself shut. Now that's one thing on the

back but I was surprised to find it on the front as well. Some nice engineering. No little weird

latch to grab. You just lift it right up. Nothing crazy. No massive objects. The only other thing

you're going to see here is your windshield washer fluid. Look I love this like ripple on the front

too. Look at that thing. That's like Batman style. If this thing was in black. Look at the shape on that

squeezes itself shut. You never have to slam it. You've got a beautiful car like this

and then it kind of smoothly closes things so you don't need to slam them

You appreciate that. You love it. Now, the other thing I should mention on the exterior

this roof panel means you don't even need to buy a convertible

This piece comes off and it's meant to store in the trunk securely

So you just pull back like this and like that. And I guess there's one more like there

And then the whole thing lifts up. And because this one's four wheel drive, I really think this could be a year round Corvette

It's possible. They do sell a typical convertible also. But I think this is kind of the nicest mix because when you're driving around with this top on, it looks like a coupe

And then you pull it off and you've got a convertible. Like that is wonderful engineering

This thing is super secure now and if it starts to rain you have the rest of your roof and you not worried about it banging around in the back So even in a car that this tight and put together they have managed to figure out a way to be modular And I love pretty much anything that modular And this is a modular roof

Soft close. This is the new ZT3 Pro. And since we're talking about electric motors

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built into this extremely rugged body. Look at those tires, tubeless, and they're 11 inches

It's actually got suspension in the front and back, and you can see it has disc brakes

It's going to help to soften up that rough trail a little bit. Look at this X light on the front

Got this really nice headlight built in there. Even look at this charge port right here

That thing has a massive rubber door on it. Now, the whole thing also folds down

just clips in like that, so it shrinks, and you can put it in your trunk. So the ZT3 Pro can travel up to 24.9 miles per hour with a maximum range of 43.5 miles

It's also got quite a bit of ground clearance. When you step on this thing, you realize you can travel over some stuff

Six inches of ground clearance. Look at that thing. We got this really nice display on the front

You can control the entire thing from here. It's got a built-in bell

Let people know you're coming. And with the built-in app, you can track this thing down if it happens to go missing

Like it actually has Apple Find My capability. Not just Find My, but it also has auto lock

So if I walk away from the scooter with my phone in my pocket, it'll lock up on its own

So no one can just like jump on and ride it away. So the entire unit comes in at 65.5 pounds, but you can be up to 265 pounds

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She still drinks. It's really a unique experience. I've driven fast electric cars, fast gas powered cars, not so many fast hybrids

When you have the two things kind of pumping in at the same time, you've got the enhanced

sound from the electric. Then you get the real motor. It's you're all discombobulated in a good way

You're like, I don't know, power, all the kinds of power I've got inside. Getting in, we're greeted initially by the E-Ray branding here

We know we have the electric enhanced version of Corvette. We have a Bose sound system built

Everything is very tight and polished and everything is angled towards the driver

I mean, this is the same for any Corvette, but also is the case here on the E-Ray

And we have blue accent seatbelts, which is a nice touch. There's carbon fiber all throughout the seat construction

The steering wheel is one of my favorite aspects. Square circle design, E-Ray emblem here at the bottom

And the slick kind of polished carbon fiber on the top of bottom

which like normally you might have leather wrapped the whole way around but this i don't know this

was surprisingly i liked this as i was driving around this button here is really the key you hit

this z mode button and you dial in exactly whatever driving dynamics you want when it comes to opening

and closing the door right over here there's no handle that like you might be used to instead you

just press this button here and the door will open up you've also got controls here for the frunk

and the trunk sometimes i get a little bit worried when i'm in you know a sports car supercar whatever

that it's going to just feel too cramped or I'm not going to have enough adjustability to get

comfortable. That's not the case in here. Just look at how much leg room I can get. I'm six feet

A lot of people are going to be able to get comfortable in here. They've really configured it in such a way that I think people can get comfortable. I'm not too worried about that

Now we have heated and cooled seats. We have our wireless charger behind me. This is not

the best location ever and it works totally fine but it's just a little bit of a strained reach

to get over there although probably you shouldn't be fiddling with your phone when you're driving

anyway so this entire center column here is where they've actually fit the battery for the electric

system which is pretty wild so you haven't lost any storage capacity they just buried it in here

and it also adds to the the balance of the car and the rigidity almost no like center console

storage you do have a usb a and c port i mean you could charge something in there but beyond that

you're not storing a ton you have two cup holders you can close them off and cover them up if you

want now we still maintain a number of mechanical switches here heated cooled seats this is like

kind of quick access stuff it's a lot of buttons but i don't really mind it because i always want

to access these there's pretty much never a time that i'm driving that i don't want to access these

things and in other vehicles like my tycan for example there's almost no buttons you're inside

the menu and having to figure things out and oftentimes you clicking more times overall and it might not be as satisfying as physical buttons I talk a little bit more about this steering wheel I told you I really like the shape of it in the carbon fiber There other controls that

are on the steering wheel besides the Z button that I mentioned. We have our media controls for

volume. You actually click these from the back side of the steering wheel and same goes for

skipping tracks or moving between radio stations. Plus the paddle shifters which are super responsive

and also made out of carbon fiber. Towards the center, this is our drive selector

and these are always kind of funky, but this one's easy enough to figure out. You flip this up for drive, park is at the top

reverse is here. These switches feel like jet fighter again. We also have our mode selector

which is hidden under this leather piece. Actually, we're noticing now that we have a few different modes we can select from

even with the car turned off. This uses the electric motor only for quiet operation at low speeds

The transition then from the electric motor to the engine power takes two to four seconds. If you get up early and you're not trying to make a

lot of noise, pulling out the driveway, whatever, I don't know, maybe you want to go with the stealth

mode. I've heard others refer to it as a neighborhood exit mode. The other thing to

mention in this position here is just how much everything is shifted over to the driver's point

of view. This car does that more than a lot of other vehicles that I've been in. I mean, the

entire infotainment system is all sort of tilted towards the driver and away from the passenger

All the controls, the cup holders, drive selector, everything is kind of just twisted to be at the

best reach for me, the driver. The passenger, on the other hand, it almost reminds you of those

motorcycles that have the little cab beside them. So this feels sort of like being in a sidecar

where you're just along for the ride. It's all about the driver. And for a car like this

it kind of should be. I'm not saying this is an uncomfortable spot. It's just everything is tilted

away from you on purpose to remind you that it's all about the driver. It's all this white leather

interior, but they have left some black with the deviated white stitching in key locations in the

dashboard to minimize reflections, which is good. Now, because the doors have that electronic release

there's also an override, a manual release down on the floor. You can see it down there. I'm

actually going to turn this on right now. I'm going to give you your first exposure to the way that it

sounds. Okay, this is not an electric car. That is not an electric car. Nobody is going to mistake

that for an electric car. Nobody's going to mistake that for an electric car

now i'm in stealth mode i'm on the ev motor and the engine's not running which is pretty cool so

i presume if i put it in drive i can actually start driving around i'm not going to do it right this second i will in a moment i have a whole different cluster here which is reflecting

the fact that i'm in this stealth mode i should also mention this time you have a very big and

crisp heads-up display. It has Android Auto, it has Apple CarPlay, and then it has Corvette E-Ray

specific performance options. I don't mind the interface. I use Android Auto pretty much

exclusively anyways, so as soon as I got in here, it was like any other car that I drive. But when

it comes to performance, I click the Z button. Oh, I can't click the Z button right now because I'm

in this stealth mode. Let's see if I can... What happens if I switch drive modes? Oh. Oh. Oh, yes

Okay. So if I change the mode via the mode dial, then it's going to start up the car, obviously, in order to be in those variety of modes

So those modes basically act as presets for different driving dynamics, tour mode, track mode, sports mode, etc

I think there's a winter mode on there. Now I'm going to try to drive this a little bit in stealth mode and just see what happens

I'm going to put it in drive. We have our electric sound

I mean, this is great for the studio. No exhaust. And it is truly silent

It's making that noise so that you can hear me. But other than that, it's silent

Like, you're not waking up any neighbors with that. This is only a pedestrian that you might hit

It's the bare minimum sound, you know? Very clear cameras, obviously a number of different views available as well

As I shift between reverse and drive, I mean this is one of my favorite views for a car

like this because it is so low to the ground. Anyway this is great like I will use this mode all the time honestly Now I could start the engine manually or i could just start driving it and as i hit a certain speed the engine just going to kick on synchronized with the electric and we going to be on our way actually yeah oh that kind of

it's nutty you should see the animation this doesn't use very much battery either i'm just

watching it hasn't gone down a percent just me moving around here so i think this is a feature

I would actually use, like pulling out of my house or moving a car around a garage

Or if I just don't want to be obnoxious at a certain point, like late at night, leaving a family member's house or something, they're already like, look at this guy with

the Corvette. And then I got to growl every time. Like, this is kind of useful, depending on the scenario

It's some kind of new type of etiquette. Although at the same time, it's a Corvette, let it growl

You know what I mean? Like, there's a point to that as well. I'm electric only Corvette right now at 28 kilometers an hour but I'm electric only

Corvette right now. In the heads-up display it shows a meter, a bar, and the amount that it's

full and it shows on the far end if I cross a certain line then I will activate the motor

the engine. It's easy to sort of control your acceleration so that you don't

Don't pass that threshold if you want to stay in electric or you want to keep the car quiet

Still super quiet. Ridiculously quiet. Now I presume if I depleted the battery completely to zero

that would be another way in which the engine would just give up

Stay glued here because you're going to see a cool animation when I flip over to the gas engine

It went from 38 to 39 just on the region. Oh, there we go

Why did we transition there? I don't know. I was just gliding. Maybe it can't go

below 40% or something. But did you see it kick on? It's pretty cool. And now we

can also show some of the different modes. So if I click the Z button, you'll

see I have manual configuration of steering suspension, engine response, sound. I can also just do the old-fashioned thing and just switch my

drive mode track obviously the most aggressive i mean it's a race car for sure it's a race car

obviously it's a race car feels great man feels so good like just so tight and so low and so planted all of a sudden it's

more in the handling and the stiffness you just feel so much more connected i don't know that

there's a lot of things that really compare at this particular price i mean you guys can let me

know if you're cross-shopping this but you're on a tight budget like this it's not a tight budget

this is expensive still but if you're on this budget what else are you looking at i'm curious

because it probably doesn't look like this whatever else you're looking at with this budget

it probably doesn't perform like this whatever you're looking at in this budget that thing is sick

Like, to get all that and all you got to do is press, you know, all you got to do is press and hold

You press, you hold. I mean, you can get it more involved if you want to start tapping your shifters

You got to assume like a Corvette buyer is a discerning type of buyer

They may have been dreaming about getting a Corvette or they may have had Corvettes in the past

and they still want it to be a Corvette. So I think this middle ground should satisfy some of those existing enthusiasts

and then also newcomers to the brand that like the tech and the fact that it has that hybrid component to it

And from an engineering perspective, it's extremely sophisticated. When you have a car that looks this good

You can just have a guy pointing a camera at it and people just walk past and you don't think there's anything weird about it

Of course he's just photographing that car. It's so obvious. Any other reason people would be like, what are you doing here

Any of these other cars were just standing around filming. They're like, what's this guy, what's this creepy dude doing

But then you see this bright blue Corvette and you're like, oh I get it, I know what he's doing

I know what he's doing