{"id":183993,"date":"2024-02-29T11:23:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T17:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/gm-says-its-new-chevy-bolt-ev-will-save-billions-with-more-affordable-lfp-batteries"},"modified":"2024-02-29T11:23:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T17:23:38","slug":"gm-says-its-new-chevy-bolt-ev-will-save-billions-with-more-affordable-lfp-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/gm-says-its-new-chevy-bolt-ev-will-save-billions-with-more-affordable-lfp-batteries","title":{"rendered":"GM says its new Chevy Bolt EV will save billions with more affordable LFP batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gm-says-its-new-chevy-bolt-ev-will-save-billions-with-more-affordable-lfp-batteries2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next-gen <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/guides\/chevy-bolt\/\">Chevy Bolt EV<\/a> is due out next year after GM ended production of its top-selling electric model at the end of 2023. GM\u2019s CFO Paul Jacobson says the new Bolt EV will save the company billions by becoming North America\u2019s first Ultium-based model to use LFP batteries.<\/p>\n<p>After EV enthusiasts like myself were disappointed to learn GM planned to discontinue the electric Chevy Bolt EV last year, GM\u2019s CEO Mary Barra revealed a next-gen model was in the works.<\/p>\n<p>During a media call last July, Barra revealed the <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2023\/07\/25\/gm-confirms-ultium-based-bolt-ev-is-coming-beats-q2-estimates\/\">Bolt EV will live on<\/a> as an Ultium-based model, claiming it will streamline production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next-gen Chevy Bolt EV is due out next year after GM ended production of its top-selling electric model at the end of 2023. GM\u2019s CFO Paul Jacobson says the new Bolt EV will save the company billions by becoming North America\u2019s first Ultium-based model to use LFP batteries. After EV enthusiasts like myself were [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183993","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}