General Motors has given the keys to its new Ultium Recovery Energy technology. A system that, according to the company, is crucial to improve the autonomy and reduce the charging times of electric cars. This technology has become a standard in electric vehicles with Ultium technology. It is available for current and future models.
It’s been a long time since General Motors pressed the accelerator in its transition process towards electric mobility. This colossus of the North American auto industry is working on an ambitious product offensive. On the agenda is the launch of a long list of new generation electric cars. Some models that will be accompanied by newly developed technologies.
General Motors has introduced the Ultium Recovery Energy technology. A technology that we can define as key to improving several of the determining issues of a battery electric car. And it is that, in addition to reducing charging times, it is crucial to increase autonomy. The system Ultium Recovery Energy will be available in current and future GM electric cars based on the Ultium architecture. The key component is a GM-patented heat pump.
Ultium Recovery Energy, the new technology from General Motors
The system Ultium Recovery Energy captures and reuses residual battery energy. A process that is carried out through the energy recovery system of the Ultium platform. This wasted energy can be used to improve autonomy, reduce heating energy consumption and even increase charging speed.
Electric vehicle batteries, power electronics and other components related to the propulsion system produce heat. Ultium Recovery Energy technology has the ability to recover and store such waste heat. It can also capture and use moisture from both inside and outside the vehicle, including body heat from passengers.
Among the main benefits is, as has been previously pointed out, an improvement in autonomy. Energy recovery capabilities reduce the need to power the heating system and other functions from energy stored in the battery, which provides General Motors electric vehicles with up to 10% more autonomy.
Ultium Recovery Energy improves the autonomy of GM electric
Active heating capacity, Ultium vehicles can also potentially charge more efficiently by heating the batteries before charging. Ultium’s energy recovery system even enables the GMC Hummer EV’s “Watts to Freedom” feature. Energy recovery pre-cools the powertrain to help give this huge pick-up a ton of performance.
Doug Parks, Executive Vice President of Global Product Development, Purchasing and Supply Chain of General Motors, has pointed out that the use of an architecture for electrical own and created from scratch allows us to implement all kinds of solutions: “Having an EV architecture from scratch gives us the freedom to incorporate standard features such as Ultium Recovery Energy capabilities. This helps us get more efficiency, performance and overall customer benefit from our electric vehicles.”
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