This is a huge weekend in the NASCAR racing world. The Daytona 500 starts the season. Chevy is unveiling a racing EV prototype that will help the company build better EVs.

The Chevrolet brand of General Motors Co. in Detroit unveiled its Blazer EV.R NASCAR prototype in the days leading up to Sunday’s Daytona 500, won by Chevrolet and Hendrick Motorsports driver William Byron for the second consecutive year.

Chevrolet unveils the Blazer EV.R, a 1,300-horsepower electric NASCAR prototype showcasing the future of electric motorsports.

Like the Ford, and like NASCAR's unbranded prototype, the three-motor setup makes the Blazer EV.R all-wheel drive. Those motors draw from a 78-kWh liquid-cooled battery, which is stored inside a modified Next Gen chassis. The car's suspension is also taken from that car, another common feature with the other two demonstrators.

Hot on the heels of Ford’s Mustang Mach-E NASCAR prototype, Chevrolet rolls out the Blazer-based EV.R. Electrification is shouldering its way into motorsports just as it has with our everyday new vehicles.

American carmaker Chevrolet pulled the wraps off an electric NASCAR racer prototype called Blazer EV.R, model to be shown at Daytona 500.

Chevrolet is bringing a first for the Daytona 500 with its Blazer EV SS as the first electric vehicle to lead the famous NASCAR race to the green flag.

Chevrolet tossed its cap into the NASCAR EV crossover stock car ring on Thursday with the unveiling of the Blazer EV.R prototype ahead of this weekend’s Daytona 500. Like the Ford Mustang Mach-E stock car unveiled in January,

Chevrolet's Blazer EV.R NASCAR prototype, boasting 1,300+ horsepower, is a cutting-edge electric car with plenty of performance.