2024 Corvette E-Ray Rips off 2.1-Second 0-60 Pass, Albeit With Some Caveats

This 0-60 run from a brand new 2024 Corvette E-Ray is undoubtedly impressive, but there are some valid reasons for skepticism.

The 2024 Corvette E-Ray is finally beginning to reach customer hands following a bit of a wait that ensued after its electrifying debut last year. The first-ever hybrid Corvette has seemingly lived up to its billing as a super-quick grand touring machine, one that provides a bit more comfort than the Z06 and more straight-line performance than both it and the base Stingray, to boot. In fact, YouTuber Drive 615 recently ripped off a shocking quick 0-60 run of 2.1 seconds in a 2024 Corvette E-Ray, though there are a few asterisks/caveats that accompany that result.

In this recent video, our host gives us a nice in-depth look at a 2024 Corvette E-Ray, showing off Stealth Mode, talking about its hybrid system, going over basic first driving impressions, and taking it to the track. However, the most interesting takeaway from the clip is his 0-60 run, which he achieves after engaging launch control and simply taking off – pretty simple to do, and clearly quite effective.

However, before Z06 owners head on down to the dealership and trade in their track weapons for a new E-Ray, it’s worth picking apart this result in more ways than one. For starters, our host used the car’s Performance Data Recorder (PDR) to record this acceleration test and provide its results, which means that it’s already a bit off. In this thread at CorvetteForum, member CRUZ1NN points out that the C8’s PDR is typically “understated by 0.136 to 0.221 seconds,” adding that “the Dashboard and PDR Video displayed times are closer to the 0-60 one-foot rollout times but still not accurate and are almost always understated.”

While in the old days we used to measure 0-60 runs in a more basic manner, over the past few years, some car rags have begun using one-foot rollouts when conducting the same acceleration test, which means that the timer doesn’t start until the car has moved one foot. “I have found statistically that on average you need to add somewhere between 0.144 and 0.221 seconds to the Dashboard time, and somewhere between 0.136 and 0.211 seconds to the PDR Video displayed time to come closer to the actual 0-60 with the one-foot rollout time,” CRUZ1NN noted.

This practice isn’t just something that car magazines came up with to make cars appear quicker than they are, of course. Rather, the inspiration for this change came from the world of drag racing, where a car can typically travel a foot or more before tripping the lights and starting the clock, and thus, a few years ago, the world of car reviewers largely changed this practice – and many automakers have followed suit.

Such a change can actually make a big difference in terms of 0-60 times, and in fact, this came to light a few years ago with the launch of the Tesla Model S Plaid. Many couldn’t replicate Tesla’s stated 0-60 times of less than two seconds in the car, after which we learned that it indeed used the one-foot rollout when measuring acceleration. Thus, while this 2024 Corvette E-Ray did indeed manage to rocket to 60 in a truly impressive time, we’ll also have to wait and see how it fares with more accurate testing equipment onboard, too.

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