Ultium

In an NPR interview before the news of the big GM move to NACS charging, CEO Mary Barra hinted at something we here at Electrek have been jonesin’ for – a Chevy Bolt with an Ultium battery. A Boltium?! Let’s discuss… The little nugget of info happened about 10 minutes into a Marketplace podcast released yesterday right before the announcement on GM’s choice to follow Ford into Tesla’s NACS charging. The whole thing is worth a listen, but our ears perked up at the following: Barra: So I’ve…

Reverend Raphael Warnock, Democratic Senator for Georgia, speaks during his final midterm runoff election campaign rally in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., December 5, 2022. REUTERS/Cheney OrrThe U.S. Energy Department said it had finalised a $2.5 billion low-cost loan to a joint venture of General Motors Co and LG Energy Solution to help pay for three new lithium-ion battery cell manufacturing facilities.Reuters first reported in July the planned loan to Ultium Cells LLC from the government's Advanced Technology Vehicles…

GM’s first Ultium battery plant in Lordstown, Ohio has voted to join the United Auto Workers, with 98% of workers voting in favor of union representation. Ultium is GM’s battery joint venture with LG Energy. GM will establish at least four factories in the US to build the batteries for their upcoming EVs. Just today, GM announced an additional $275 million investment in the second plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee. The Lordstown/Warren plant in Ohio is already up and running, though, and…

Ultium Cells will invest $275 million in its Spring Hill, Tennessee, battery plant to expand EV battery cell output by 40%. The new expansion will help fuel GM’s aggressive EV strategy as it ramps production. Ultium Cells was formed through a joint venture between GM and LG Energy Solutions. The Spring Hill, Tennessee, location is the second battery cell factory established through the partnership. In April 2021, GM CEO Mary Barra confirmed that “the addition of our second all-new Ultium…

<!----> Posco Chemical Company said it had signed a binding agreement to supply Ultium Cells with key materials used in the production of electric vehicle (EV) batteries. Posco said artificial graphite anode materials offer faster battery charging and increased battery life compared…

General Motors has been in business for more than a century, but in its 112 years, the company has never faced such challenges as it does in today's rapidly electrifying and automating industry. The assembly line jobs from Detroit's heyday have been replaced by legions of automated industrial arms, almost as quickly as the era of internal combustion engines has been supplanted by EVs. Since 2014, it's been Mary Barra's job as CEO of GM to help guide America's largest automaker into the 21st century.  In Charging Ahead:…

I wasn't kidding when I told you that GM is going all-in on Ultium, the battery technology behind the company's electrification efforts, not to mention an entire generation of Chevy and GMC EVs. On Tuesday, the automaker announced that it is expanding its portfolio into energy management services — think big stationary batteries to store rooftop-generated solar power on a home or business — with its new spin-off business, GM Energy. The new venture will be comprised of three smaller ones: Ultium Home, Ultium Commercial…

General Motors, through its GM Defense subsidiary, will build a battery pack prototype for the Department of Defense to test and analyze. The agency's Defense Innovation Unit is seeking a scalable design that can be used in electrified versions of tactical military vehicles. The battery pack will be based on GM's Ultium platform, which it's using to power its own electric vehicles. Due to the type of battery cells it employs, Ultium is billed as a modular and scalable system that can be adapted to different needs, so it…

GM has officially begun Ultium EV battery production in the US as part of its $2.3 billion joint venture with LG Energy Solution. The JV’s 2.8-million square foot facility in Ohio is now assembling battery packs for the GMC Hummer EV, but remains hush on what other EVs in the GM family will receive them. Meanwhile, the American automaker continues to work through disputes as its battery factory employees look to unionize. GM announced news of its own battery manufacturing facility in the US alongside LG, all the…

GM's Ultium EV platform A General Motors and LG Energy Solution $2.3 billion joint venture battery production plant in Ohio has begun production, a media report said. The 2.8 million square foot Ultium Cells plant is the first of at least four planned in the US by the joint venture to supply GM electric vehicles, Reuters reported. The Warren plant, announced in 2019, has 800 employees and is preparing to…