General Motors will offer an electrified and a fully electric Ultium-based Corvette, the former as early as next year.
Details and names will come at a later date, GM president Mark Reuss confirms with CNBC and in a LinkedIn post.
“In addition, we also announced today Ultium Platform’s energy recovery system, a patented onboard system that takes the heat generated by EV batteries and uses it to warm the cabin, create more efficient charging conditions, and even increase vehicle acceleration,” say Reuss in the post. “And it can boost the vehicle’s range by about 10%. It’s a perfect example of how developing a ground-up EV platform like Ultium enables unique features not easily done with a retrofit.”
Reuss includes a link to GM’s Ultium announcement.
He reportedly says GM will continue to manufacture traditional models with internal combustion engines (ICE) alongside electrified models but doesn’t disclose when the electric Corvette will be released or whether the electrified model will be a hybrid or plug-in hybrid (PHEV).
