Chevrolet Bolt Battery Cells To Damage Industry-Leading $145 Per Kwh

General Motors told Wall Street on Th that when it introduces the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt small-scale electrical auto adjacent year, it expects the terms of its battery cells to live on an "industry-leading" $145 per kWh.

GM goes on to dry reason that they aspect a lowering of the costs of EV battery cells to $100 per kilowatt-hour yesteryear 2022 which volition allow EVs to compete alongside vehicles fuelled yesteryear petroleum.

all indications cry for to LG Chem supplying the Bolt battery, GM practise bring other options.

In contest alongside firms similar Bosch together with Volkswagen, General Motors, via their GM Ventures subsidiary, bring made several strategic investments inward solid-state battery start-ups such every bit Sakti3 together with Envia Systems

GM considered Envia a rattling potent candidate to provide a adjacent generation battery for the Bolt, upward until the describe of piece of job solid James Dyson before this year, much less is known virtually their electrical flow Technology Readiness Level (TRL).

The automaker has produced 55 prototypes of the Bolt at plants inward Seoul, South Korea, together with Orion Township. They bring been driven difficult throughout GM's Milford Proving Grounds together with early on results are positive, engineers say.

The Bolt is expected to become on sale inward early on 2017 together with volition bring a hit betwixt charges of to a greater extent than than 320 km (200 miles). General Motors innovation to cause down edifice its novel Chevrolet Bolt electrical auto inward Oct 2016.

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