General Motors’ Ultium platform has been in the news lately, so let’s dive deeper into exactly what this “platform” consists of. Boiled down, it’s a shared modular battery system powering a family of related motor/drive units under the watchful eye and rigorous control of an Ultifi software operating system running on GM’s latest Vehicle Intelligence Platform electrical architecture.
Ultium is not a “skateboard,” per se, as the vehicles it’s scheduled to underpin will use vastly different suspensions and frames tailored to their very different use cases. But what Ultium really is (listen up if you’re a shareholder) is GM’s roadmap to profitably electrifying its fleet by sharing
