# General Motors Launches New Electric Platform

> GM unveils affordable EV platform with 20% more range.
- Title: General Motors Launches New Electric Platform · Road & Track
- Summary: 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…
- Keywords: general motors, electric vehicle, battery technology, lithium manganese, gm forward, autonomous driving, central compute unit, cars, sports, General, Motors, Launches
- Source: Road & Track — https://roadandtrack.com/news/a74197096/general-motors-new-electric-vehicle-strategy-announcement
- Author: Emmet White
- Published: 2026-10-21T18:00:00+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: general motors, electric vehicle, battery technology, lithium manganese, gm forward, autonomous driving, central compute unit, cars, sports
## 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.
## Key takeaway

GM will launch a new electric vehicle platform with 20% more range per kilowatt-hour using advanced battery technology.