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WARREN, Mich.—If you've been following General Motors' development of electric vehicles on its Ultium platform, you'd be forgiven for thinking that it hasn't gone entirely smoothly. While plagued by some initial hiccups, GM has worked through those issues and now has a total of 12 EVs on the road. By my count, that's nine more than Ford, the crosstown rival that had a significant lead in this generation of EVs.
Furthering GM's advancement is the development of new battery technologies. Kurt Kelty, the company's newest head of batteries (after spending 12 years at Tesla), told me that new technology is a way to get to mass adoption of EVs.
"There needs to be price parity between gasoline and electric," he told me. "Without the tax credit."
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WARREN, Mich.—If you've been following General Motors' development of electric vehicles on its Ultium platform, you'd be forgiven for thinking that it hasn't gone entirely smoothly. While plagued by some initial hiccups, GM has worked through those issues and now has a total of 12 EVs on the road. By my count, that's nine more than Ford, the crosstown rival that had a significant lead in this generation of EVs.
Furthering GM's advancement is the development of new battery technologies. Kurt Kelty, the company's newest head of batteries (after spending 12 years at Tesla), told me that new technology is a way to get to mass adoption of EVs.
"There needs to be price parity between gasoline and electric," he told me. "Without the tax credit."
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