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General Motors Launches New Electric Platform
GM unveils affordable EV platform with 20% more range.
In brief
GM unveils affordable EV platform with 20% more range. GM will launch a new electric vehicle platform with 20% more range per kilowatt-hour using advanced battery technology. Originally reported by Road & Track.
GM Announces Electric Platform
General Motors unveiled a new electric vehicle platform targeting affordable EV ownership across its customer base.
New Battery Chemistry
GM's lithium manganese-rich batteries will be 33 percent more energy-dense than lithium iron phosphate with 20 percent more range per kilowatt-hour.
Battery Production Speed
GM engineers tested 300,000 battery designs using computer modeling before building a single prototype.
Faster Battery Development
GM's battery development timeline was reduced from years to one month for the first prototype.
Simplified EV Architecture
New electric motors and power electronics reduce parts by 40 percent with 30 percent less wiring.
Central Compute Unit
GM will consolidate perception, propulsion, active safety, and chassis controls into a single high-speed unit.
PlantBrAIn System
Factory intelligence platform PlantBrAIn improves quality by testing production steps before hardware installation.
Two-Year Development Cycle
GM aims to develop vehicles in two years instead of the current five-year timeline using ai-driven concurrent engineering.
What it means
GM will launch a new electric vehicle platform with 20% more range per kilowatt-hour using advanced battery technology.
