General Motors has a It has just been announced its latest and potential piece, which now shows a three -dimensional cell chemistry strategy to strengthen a dozen EV lineup of GM during the end of the decade and beyond.
GM has said today that it will construct a low -cost lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cells at Tennessee’s Spring Hill, starting at the end of 2027. The cell lines will begin to change later this year to create this chemistry. The Spring Hill Complex is owned by the GM Joint Venture Battery Company, Altim Sales, with a cell plant LG energy solution. In the same complex, the GM Assembly plant builds Cadellic Lariq and Acura ZDX Electric SUV.
Under the battery, propolas and stability GM Vice President Kurt Kalty, the company has diversified its previous strategy of “a cell for all EVs”. Credit was hired in February 2024 after a stunt in Tesla and Panasonic, and they are widely respected in the industry.
It is expected that LFP cells made by Ultim will be used in the latest 2026 Chevrolet Bolt EV, which should be disclosed within two to three months. It will be in production at the Kansas plant before the end of this year. For its first two years, it will have to use LFP cells imported from another LGP plant – which is potentially one in South Korea. These imports allow GM to receive cheap iron phosphate batteries on US roads a whole three years before its next cell chemistry, which says it is not higher than LFP, but has high energy density.
Nevertheless, changing the plant to build LFP cells – on an uncontrollable cost, suggests that they will be used in lineup for a while.
LMR’s future promise
So far, all the GMEVS Chevrolet Bolt EV after 2017-2023 has used Nickel Mengani Cobalt-Elonemic (NMCA) cells. They have the most energy in a specific volume, but their nickel and cobalt content are also priced. The delay in the manufacture of ultim modules that holds these cells brought the supply of GMK EV lineup from the end of 2022 to 2024 for 12 to 18 months. (GMEV sales have increased permanently for three quarters, suggesting that this problem may occur in the past.)
This May, Altim announced another cell chemistry, which he calls the “lithium manganese” or LMR. It claims that LMR chemistry provides maximum energy density than lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cell volume. Those vehicles of Cadelic, Chevrolet, and GMC use 109 to 205 kWh Gargeonian Battery Pack.
The first LMR sales will descend from the pilot line in 2027. Ultam has not been disclosed at the plants set for 2028. With Spring Hill, now LFP cells are now designed to manufacture, it seems that the LMR cell will now come from another ultim cell plant that is now in production – Warren, Ohio.
Compact chemistry
Chemistry is likely to be used in its EVs in the early 2030s, adding lithium iron phosphate cycles outside GM Sweet. This applies at least to those born outside China. Various models made in China have long been added to LFP chemistry, which is the dominant chemistry in this country.
Most of the intellectual property around the LFP chemists is owned by Chinese firms, which has caused Ford to suffer because it tries to add LFP cells for future EV models. A GM spokesman told Wired that an intellectual property for LFP cells that will develop with his colleague LG energy solution is not owned by any Chinese institution.
