Barrett-Jackson Collector Automotive Auctions featured the sale of the world’s first electrified Corvette throughout their 2023 Palm Seashore Public sale on Saturday. The 2024 Chevrolet Corvette E-Ray 3LZ First Retail Manufacturing VIN 001 offered for $1.1 million, with one hundred pc of the hammer value benefiting DonorsChoose, a nationwide non-profit whose mission is for anybody to assist a classroom in want, shifting us nearer to a nation the place college students in each neighborhood have the instruments and experiences they want for a terrific schooling. An extra $50,000 was donated to the charity from a beneficiant Barrett-Jackson VIP in attendance.

“The environment within the public sale area was supercharged through the bidding on the primary retail manufacturing 2024 Chevrolet Corvette E-Ray,” stated Craig Jackson, chairman and CEO of Barrett-Jackson. “The Corvette is ‘America’s Sports activities Automotive,’ and the sale of the primary electrified model ever produced was an iconic second as collectors coveted the possibility to personal a chunk of automotive historical past. Barrett-Jackson has an extended historical past of auctioning VIN 001 autos from Common Motors to profit deserving charities and we’re proud to have had the chance in the present day to assist elevate funds for our nation’s school rooms.”

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