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GM is ditching its one-size-fits-all Ultium battery system and adopting other cell formats

GM's much-touted Ultium system hasn't worked out as the company had hoped. As such, it's adopting other battery cell chemistries and physical formats.

The company is dropping that standardized approach in favor of a wider range of battery cell chemistries and physical formats. The automaker had hoped that, by adopting a unified system across all of its EVs as well as other products, it would be able to reduce costs and ship them faster. The automaker hopes that switching from Ultium's nickel cobalt manganese chemistry to lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery tech will lower the cost of its EVs by as much as $6,000.

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