GM’s New Electric Car Battery Betters Tesla’s

Published On 05-Mar-2020 12:33:15By Anand Priyadarshi

The new battery cells will hold enough energy to potentially power a car for 400 miles or more on a single charge.

GM EV Battery

General Motors announced that it has created a new electric vehicle battery that offers up to 400 miles of range and will be cheaper to produce than today’s batteries. The new battery cells will hold enough energy to potentially power a car for 400 miles or more on a single charge.

The driving range offered by GM is slightly more than any Tesla car offers. Tesla claims a range of 390 miles for the latest version of its Model S Long Range sedan.

GM’s new battery cells will be used in several of its new fully electric models which also includes a recently launched self-driving electric car, the Cruise Origin, and a future Cadillac luxury SUV. GM also hopes to licence its battery technology to other companies.

“Our team accepted the challenge to transform product development at GM and position our company for an all-electric future,” said Mary Barra, GM chairman and CEO. “What we have done is build a multi-brand, multi-segment EV strategy with economies of scale that rival our full-size truck business with much less complexity and even more flexibility.”

The new battery cell named Ultium, are soft, flat pouches cells lined up horizontally with pouches standing on edge like books in a bookshelf (Electric vehicle batteries can have different forms. Tesla battery cells, for instance, are hard cylinders.) This gives car designers more flexibility because it allows the battery pack, which is made up of lots of these cells, to have a greater variety of shapes.

The Ultium battery cell uses a minimal amount of cobalt, an expensive ingredient for electric vehicle batteries, and that factor, combined with continuing manufacturing improvements, will drive prices down, the company said.

“Thousands of GM scientists, engineers and designers are working to execute an historic reinvention of the company,” said GM President Mark Reuss. “They are on the cusp of delivering a profitable EV business that can satisfy millions of customers.

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