{"id":123866,"date":"2021-06-15T23:25:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T06:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/gm-reveals-new-ultium-batteries-and-a-flexible-global-platform-to-rapidly-grow-its-ev-portfolio"},"modified":"2021-06-15T23:25:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T06:25:03","slug":"gm-reveals-new-ultium-batteries-and-a-flexible-global-platform-to-rapidly-grow-its-ev-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/gm-reveals-new-ultium-batteries-and-a-flexible-global-platform-to-rapidly-grow-its-ev-portfolio","title":{"rendered":"GM Reveals New Ultium Batteries and a Flexible Global Platform to Rapidly Grow its EV Portfolio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gm-reveals-new-ultium-batteries-and-a-flexible-global-platform-to-rapidly-grow-its-ev-portfolio.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>WARREN, Mich.<\/b> \u2013 Starting today, General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) is gathering hundreds of employees, dealers, investors, analysts, media and policymakers to share details of its strategy to grow the company\u2019s electric vehicle (EV) sales quickly, efficiently and profitably.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur team accepted the challenge to transform product development at GM and position our company for an all-electric future,\u201d said Mary Barra, GM chairman and CEO. \u201cWhat we have done is build a multi-brand, multi-segment EV strategy with economies of scale that rival our full-size truck business with much less complexity and even more flexibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The heart of GM\u2019s strategy is a modular propulsion system and a highly flexible, third-generation global EV platform powered by proprietary Ultium batteries. They will allow the company to compete for nearly every customer in the market today, whether they are looking for affordable transportation, a luxury experience, work trucks or a high-performance machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WARREN, Mich. \u2013 Starting today, General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) is gathering hundreds of employees, dealers, investors, analysts, media and policymakers to share details of its strategy to grow the company\u2019s electric vehicle (EV) sales quickly, efficiently and profitably. \u201cOur team accepted the challenge to transform product development at GM and position our company for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,39,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}