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How Ford And GM Are Plotting A Battery Breakup With China

Ford and General Motors are racing to develop a new type of electric vehicle battery. One engineer labeled it as “LFP of the West.”

GM Says These EV Batteries Are 'Critical' For Its Future

GM Says These EV Batteries Are 'Critical' For Its Future

General Motors on Tuesday said it’s planning to become the world’s first automaker to use lithium-manganese-rich (LMR) batteries in production trucks and full-size SUVs starting in 2028. The new chemistry marks a major pivot, not just from today’s nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC) and lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) batteries, but also from pouch cells GM…

GM’s Next-Gen EV Truck Battery Promises More Range, Lower Cost

GM’s Next-Gen EV Truck Battery Promises More Range, Lower Cost

General Motors and Korean battery giant LG Energy Solution have jointly developed a new lithium manganese rich (LMR) battery chemistry that promises to extend driving range and lower the cost of electric trucks. The new batteries will debut on GM’s models in 2028.

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General Motors Just Hired Tesla's Former Head Of Autopilot

Another day, another Tesla defector heads to Detroit. This time, it's none other than Sterling Anderson, one of the OGs who headed up Tesla's early Autopilot program until he left in 2016 to co-found the autonomous trucking company, Aurora.

General Motors’ EV Battery Cell Production Overtakes Tesla: Report

In many ways, the lithium-ion battery is the combustion-engine equivalent for EVs. It defines how EVs are built, sold and driven. But unlike gas engines, which take years and billions of dollars to develop for each new vehicle, a well-designed battery platform can do a lot more with a lot…

Chevy Silverado EV, New Chevy Bolt Will Get Cheaper LFP Batteries

Unlike most other so-called "traditional" automakers who are trying to go electric, General Motors seems to have figured out the secret sauce: whoever controls the batteries controls the future. And two promising electric models are about to benefit from GM's battery advancements that should make cars cheaper to buy.

Elon Musk Will Not Get A $100 Billion Pay Package For Christmas

Remember Elon Musk's $56 billion payday? I know what you're thinking: not this news again. But, yes, this news again—Musk's multi-billion-dollar pay package is once again a topic of debate. More than five months after it fell off the news cycle, things aren't looking great for ol' Elon despite the…

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GM Will Dump 'Ultium' Branding, Rethink How It Does Batteries

GM Will Dump 'Ultium' Branding, Rethink How It Does Batteries

GM is changing how it incorporates batteries into its EVs. They will no longer be all the same, but be tailored for individual EVs.

GM Just Poached Tesla's All-Time-Great Battery Chief

GM Just Poached Tesla's All-Time-Great Battery Chief

Today on Critical Materials: GM poaches Tesla's battery chief, China will help EV manufacturers despite sanctions, and the UAW calls for higher import tariffs.

Joe Biden’s climate bill has the US battery industry revved up

While Joe Biden was busy throttling the latest Corvette with car executives at the Detroit auto show last week, much of the rest of the industry filed into a jam-packed convention center about 30 miles west for a forum the president also managed to rev up.

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