Chevrolet Corvette E-Ray caught completely undisguised tooling around Detroit

We know that a hybrid version of the C8 Corvette is coming, and our spy photographers just today caught a glimpse of a prototype on the streets of Detroit wearing no camouflage to hide any body bits.

Wearing a Z06 with the Z07 package body, the E-Ray doesn’t have too many giveaways that it’s something special. The most visual giveaway that this is NOT a Z06 is the rear exhaust, which resembles the base C8 and not the Z06.

Additionally, our spy photographers had a chance to follow the car for 5 miles and can confirm that it doesn’t sound like a Z06 with its raspy, rev-happy, flat plane crank V8.

Hopefully this all means that we’ll see a production version of the car soon. We expect it to be a hybrid version of the 6.2-liter V8 that comes in the standard car. We should see it sometime in 2022 as a new model or C8 for 2023.

By Chad Kirchner

Chad is the VP of Content for EV Pulse, and other Wrecked Media Group properties. He has years of experience covering the automotive industry and has been featured in Truck Trend, The Drive, Overland Journal, AutoGuide, Automotive Map, and other places.