Buick Electra E5 2024.
Buick Electra E5 2024: Chinese brother of the Chevrolet Equinox EV is shown in the first photos.
The SAIC-GM joint venture has unveiled the first electric Buick model of the new wave — the five-seat Electra E5 crossover based on the Ultium modular platform.
It will go on sale in the first half of 2023.
Chinese Buick has been rich in new products lately, with the brand trying to get back to the happy pre-Soviet days, when it managed to sell more than a million cars a year in the Middle Kingdom (Buick has not even been close to such figures in the U.S. this century).
From January to October of this year, Buick sales in China, according to CarSalesBase, totaled 538,428 vehicles, down 18% from the same period in 2021.
Buick already has two electric cars in Chinese range — the compact Velite 6 station wagon and subcompact Velite 7 crossover, but they are outdated; soon they will be replaced by a new electric lineup, combined with the Electra name from Buick’s American archive (until 1990 inclusively it was used for large and well-equipped passenger cars).