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GM takes aim at Tesla with ‘Ultium’ batteries and fleet of electric vehicles – Source Reuters Tech News

DETROIT (Reuters) – General Motors Co (GM.N) Chief Executive Mary Barra said Wednesday the Detroit automaker will invest $20 billion by 2025 in electric and automated vehicles as it races to catch up with Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) as vehicles go electric.

A new modular platform and battery system named Ultium is unveiled by General Motors at the Design Dome on the GM Tech Center campus in Warren, Michigan, U.S. in this handout photo provided March 4, 2020. Steve Fecht/General Motors/Handout via REUTERS

The previously undisclosed investment figure was part of detailed presentations Barra and other GM executives gave to reporters and investors, to show that GM can make the transition from an internal combustion world to a battery electric one.

“We’ll grow” as the company offers more electric vehicles (EVs), Barra said at GM’s design center in Warren, Michigan.

And by slashing the number of powertrain combinations and moving to modular electric vehicle components,…

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