ERay Deposit Series #7: Shipping & Delivery

Administrative note: I moved this March 5th post from the previous page because it's a great way to quickly bring everyone up to speed on what's been happening.

March 5, 2024 Update:

ERay assembly complete... √
Window sticker created.... √
GM invoiced dealership... √
$ transfers in progress... √

Trucked to dealer soon... !

March 8, 2024 Update:

I went to the Chevrolet dealership today where I buy my Corvettes, and it was a truly epic day!

One of the people I waited in line with at MacMulkin to get a low number on their official deposit list was there taking delivery of his new ERay — the first ERay delivery ever at MacMulkin so, of course, I got some photos and video of it. I spent about an hour outside with his car before he got there. In fact, I met some other Corvette enthusiasts and some of MacMulkin's great employees, and I was outside for about 4 hours before I even went inside to do my paperwork for my own ERay purchase.

I was extremely happy to learn that my ERay is on a Jack Cooper Transport truck headed to New Hampshire. At this point, I don't think there's really any doubt. I'll have my new Corvette ERay next week!

In general Corvette news, from what I've seen, there were quite a few Stingray and Z06 allocations from GM this week, but I haven't seen any for ERay Corvettes. That's surprising, but maybe there are some ERay allocations coming later in the month.

March 10, 2024 Update:

Did I mention that I love the look of the standard (no extra charge) Pearl Nickel forged aluminum wheels and carbon ceramic brakes on the ERay? Look at this six-piston Brembo caliper on the 15.7" (398 mm) carbon ceramic front rotor!

That's one of my new friends' Corvettes at his ERay delivery two days ago.

The fact that the wheel is in a position that allows reading all the print — on both wheel and brake caliper — was just a fortunate coincidence. That's the way it was parked in MacMulkin's delivery zone... exactly the same place I waited overnight in cold weather 13 months ago to place a deposit on my Corvette ERay. I also like the light reflection off the wheels in this photo, and that was the shady side of the car!

March 11, 2024 Update:

A couple of us are using the myChevrolet app to track the car carrier that has our Corvettes. I thought you might like to see what that looks like.

March 13, 2024 Update:

My 2024 Corvette ERay was dropped off at MacMulkin Chevrolet, where I'm taking delivery. It traveled all the way to the Canadian border on top of the truck cab, and it was the last C8 Corvette unloaded, so there was a long way to back up!

March 15, 2024 Update:

I took delivery yesterday! Too busy driving, photographing, and admiring my new Corvette to post an update until now! If it weren't raining today, I'd probably still be too busy to post. lol

It might have been hard to hear, but the beautiful girl with me commented that Hypersonic Gray Metallic has green undertones in the sun, and she likes that. The temporary plate I mentioned was just something MacMulkin evidently needed to put on to legally do the state inspection. They put my temporary plate on before I left. It's a vanity plate with the URL of this website!

March 19, 2024 Update:

I've got a couple hundred miles on my ERay, and it's fantastic! I'll be reorganizing this website a bit to make room in the top menu for ERay photos, test results, and reviews about different aspects of the car. I'm also working on a couple of new YouTube videos that will be longer than the ones above. I know people want to hear what Stealth Mode and the electric motor accelerating quickly sounds like. The former, I can do soon, and the later will have to wait until I at least get 500 miles on the car. Right now, I'm keeping it below 4000 RPM and doing everything else to break it in properly. I just posted a Stealth Mode preview reel here: Barry (@awdcorvette) • Instagram photos and videos

Maybe someone reading this can help me. If so, I'd be grateful! If you've followed this story from the beginning, which was chronicled in "ERay Deposit Series #1: Waiting Overnight", then you know I waited in a line outside the Corvette dealership to secure one of the early allocations. I was involved from very early on in helping keep the list of people who arrived to place an ERay deposit, so I met a lot of people in passing throughout the day, and I became friends with the other six people at the head of the line, but rarely did I learn anybody else's name or what state they were from. Just in the first seven, we had people from Massachusetts, Indiana, New York, and California. Out of the 120 people who showed up that night/day/night, I never became aware of anyone else (besides myself) from New Hampshire — the state we were in at the time!

Later online, someone said that someone else from NH was there, and I'd like to find him. My recollection is that he was further back in the line, but I don't know how far back. They've still only been building an average of 4 ERay Corvettes per day (over the last month). I expect that number to be increasing very soon, and it does look it went up slightly last week, but who knows? Apparently, only 2 were assembled yesterday! We also don't know when the '24 model year will end. It could be that very few 2024 ERays will ever get produced. Will the 2025 ERays be different? There are rumors, but nobody outside of GM knows, and they aren't talking.

As it stands now, I expect that I'll be the only ERay owner in NH for the foreseeable future. I know the two guys in MA who have also taken delivery of theirs, but we are the only three in New England to have done so. I'm quite sure that no other NH dealership has gotten an allocation, and for sure none of them have received an ERay for delivery. I've verified that.

Having the only ERay in northern New England (NH, ME, and VT) is kind of cool, but I would like to locate the other NH resident who was interested enough in getting an early production ERay to show up and wait outside in the cold. If you're reading this, or if anyone else knows who that is, please have him email me at awdcorvette@gmail.com or ask him to come to this website. My email address is on the bottom of every page. Thanks!

April 12, 2024 Update:

Sorry, guys, I wish I had better news. Corvette ERay production continues to be very slow, and there haven't been any further allocations — including yesterday, which was allocation day. Stingray and Z06 allocations, yes, but none for ERay.

May 11, 2024 Update:

Crossing from April into May saw the 300th ERay built, and there is good news in that some dealerships got ERay allocations this week! The number seems to be small, and they're scattered around (MacMulkin did get some), but it's better than nothing and hopefully an indication that GM is getting a handle on ERay production. If I learn any definitive facts about numbers (or anything else related to Corvette ERay allocations), I'll come back and update this post.

In fact, even though I've had my ERay for two months, I'll continue updating this post through the end of the 2024 model year. Hopefully, there are still some people following the news here! Apparently, Chevrolet announced that the end of 2024 production will be July 12, 2024. Corvette model year 2025 is due to start on July 15th! Sorry, I know some of you were hoping for a longer model year... maybe they'll extend it? If 2024 orders that haven't been accepted yet get pushed to 2025, there will be a price increase, of course.

There's other news! Hypersonic Gray Metallic, the color of my ERay, is going away and won't be available for 2025 Corvettes. Very few of the 327 ERays that have been built are Hypersonic Gray Metallic (only 10 so far), so the fact that that's a one-year color for ERay Corvettes will make my car even rarer. Of course, being one of the handful built on February 29th makes it one of the rarest, but I doubt many people really care about that from a collectable standpoint.

More good news I can share is that the other person from New Hampshire who waited outside MacMulkin Chevrolet in the January cold to place an ERay deposit has been located. He did not see my appeal above to email me, but when I pulled into a car show recently, I guess word got around that an ERay was there, so he came up and introduced himself. We don't live far away from each other, and we grew up in neighboring towns! It's a small world, indeed.