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GM's Ultium Batteries To Get a Massive Performance Boost Next Year With Help From CATL - autoevolution (www.autoevolution.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/43317959

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How about we just skip GM and bring in the most current tech so we can move on from ICE.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand what you mean?

Ultium is GMs new EV platform that it's sharing with Honda/Acura. Pretty much every new GM EV is on that platform.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

What I mean is take the Chinese tech directly instead of using GMs platform.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Avoiding GM and using the most current tech are both bad ideas, for the same reason: Tesla is owned by a horrible person.

After subtracting the expected quantity of deception in Chinese advertising, this new battery tech from China is still not as good as what Tesla has already been making for the last several years.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

Avoiding GM is always a good idea in my opinion. :)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You are comparing apples to oranges here since this is an LFP battery while the Tesla 4680 isn't.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

The battery's chemistry isn't important to the end user. Price, capacity, longevity, and charge time is. If we assume CATL inflates their stats by the amount that's standard for their market, we can infer their new battery is almost as good as Tesla's old battery in terms of mechanical utility to the end user - their only hope of competing is to win big on price.

I hope they can win that competition. I'd love to see GM produce an EV that's almost as good as a Tesla and a lot cheaper.