General Motors announces new battery platform, claims $100/kWh soon
GM again promises a raft of 22 new US-bound EVs—but only by 2023. …
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This is one of the potential layouts for GM’s new Ultium battery platform and BEV3 vehicle architecture. You can tell from the tires it’s a truck frame, and if you click on the image to enlarge it, you might be able to see that the cells are aligned vertically, which GM says allows for better energy density at the cost of a taller pack.
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This is one of the two pack designs that uses horizontally stacked cells within each module (i.e., the cells are laid flat, one on top of the other).
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This is the slimmest Ultium battery-pack design.
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By contrast, this is what the 2017 Bolt EV battery pack looks like. An Ultium pack of the same capacity weighs 25 percent less and has 88 percent less wiring.
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One of GM’s new electric motors for use with the BEV3 architecture.
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Drive Unit Testing in the Dyno Chamber at General Motors Global Propulsion Systems Center in Pontiac, Michigan. I don’t think the blue lighting is normal, but it makes for a good picture.
On Wednesday afternoon in Warren, Michigan, General Motors announced it has developed a new, third-generation battery electric vehicle platform (called BEV3) and a new flexible battery architecture—called Ultium—that will underpin a wide range of new BEVs across the Chevrolet,
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