Chevrolet isn’t waiting for the Equinox EV to get old. The current generation only arrived for the 2024 model year, yet its successor could show up as early as late 2028 or the very start of 2029. According to GM Authority, the second generation will be a 2029 model and will move off the BEV3 architecture onto the new BEV-N platform. If that timing holds, the first Equinox EV gets barely four or five years on the market.
And that comes right after a year in the spotlight. In 2025 Chevrolet sold 57,945 electric Equinoxes in the US — the best-selling EV in the country that didn’t wear a Tesla badge. Then the chart fell off a cliff. Between January and June 2026 dealers moved 16,249 cars against 27,749 a year earlier: down 41.4%, and the model slid to fifth place in the American ranking.
You would think this is the moment to quietly bury the project. Instead, GM is building a new technical foundation for its relatively affordable electric crossover. Only nobody has revealed a single BEV-N specification: the talk of better efficiency, a cheaper battery and faster charging is still guesswork. A Chevrolet spokesperson kept it short for Car and Driver: “We cannot comment on future product plans.”
For now the current car stays on sale from $34,995. The front-wheel-drive version is rated at up to 319 miles on the EPA cycle, the all-wheel-drive one at up to 307 miles. The switch to BEV-N should either hold that price or add capability without a noticeable premium. GM has promised nothing of the sort.
The next checkpoint isn’t a prototype’s styling but official confirmation of the architecture and the production schedule. Until then the second-generation Equinox EV exists only in the accounts of sources familiar with the automaker’s plans.
