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Ultium architecture at Shenzhen Auto Show (June 2023), showing flat, underfloor battery module (between the wheels) and front and rear Ultium Drive units.. Ultium is an electric vehicle battery and motor architecture developed by General Motors. [1]
The GM BT1 platform, marketed under Ultium branding, is a dedicated electric vehicle architecture or platform developed by General Motors (GM). It underpins electric full-size pickup trucks and SUVs sold by GM, using battery and motor technology developed under its Ultium program; these are shared with third-generation GM electric vehicles on the BEV3 platform.
Honda announced it would partner with General Motors to develop "next-generation" batteries in 2018. [3] The BEV3 architecture was first announced by GM in January 2019, [4] with Cadillac announced as the lead marque, [5] and BEV3 was officially detailed on March 4, 2020, during the GM EV Day briefing in Warren, Michigan, and supports Ultium batteries and Ultium Drive motors.
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The Velite 6/Menlo have a different wheelbase and motor than the Bolt EV [30] [31] and do not use the BEV2 platform. In March 2019, GM announced its intentions to build another BEV2 platform-based vehicle very similar to the Bolt at Orion Assembly ; [ 32 ] [ 33 ] the new BEV2 vehicle was developed alongside the GMC Hummer EV . [ 34 ]
At the outset of the twenty-first century, General Motors' approach to platforms changed, [3] and so did the nomenclature they use. Platforms themselves are now referred to by GM as "architectures", [ 4 ] and are now named according to the English-language names of letters from the Greek alphabet , such as the subcompact Gamma platform . [ 5 ]
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The Volkswagen Group MQB platform is the company's strategy for shared modular design construction of its transverse, front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout (optional front-engine, four-wheel-drive layout) automobiles.