GM Defense Provides Commercial Battery Electric Technology For Future Military Platforms

RTTNews | 113 days ago
GM Defense Provides Commercial Battery Electric Technology For Future Military Platforms

(RTTNews) - GM Defense LLC, a subsidiary of General Motors Co. (GM), said Tuesday it is providing commercial battery electric technology in support of the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) Pulsed Power and Energy Laboratory (PPEL) and Naval Surface Warfare Center Philadelphia Division (NSWCPD).

The project, Evaluation of Electric Vehicle Batteries to Enable Directed Energy (EEVBEDE), is funded by the Operational Energy Innovation office of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), through its Operational Energy Capability Improvement Fund (OECIF).

UTA PPEL will evaluate the technology to understand current capabilities of commercial automotive batteries under dynamic discharge and charge scenarios. The team's evaluation of the technology will help provide pathways and options for domestically supplied energy storage for future use in military platforms.

GM Defense is leveraging GM's Ultium Platform propulsion architecture, for evaluation and testing. The Ultium Platform can deliver power, range and scale beyond any previous GM hybrid or extended range EV technology.

Utilizing the battery technologies of its parent company, GM Defense can help solve the DoD's energy and energy storage challenges.

OECIF support will play a key role in the development of new power and energy technologies, which provide the DoD with advanced capabilities and help prevent power and energy from being a limiting factor.

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