General Motors will produce an electric van with Nikola
The conversations for this business began in 2014 with the Arizona-based company
General Motors (GM) announced this Tuesday, September 8, an alliance with the electric vehicle manufacturer Nikola – a stake valued at about $ 2 billion – in exchange for the company using its technology to produce an electric pickup truck.
The agreement with Nikola, an Arizona-based company founded in 2014, is GM’s second strategic agreement, after America’s largest automaker teamed up with Honda last week to share vehicle platforms and fuel systems. propulsion.
In this sense, the company will use the Ultium battery system and the Hydrotec fuel cell technology from GM and will also carry out the engineering, validation and homologation of the Nikola Badger, an electric pickup that can be equipped with battery and fuel cells.
This vehicle, according to the company’s specifications, will have a range of 600 miles (965 kilometers) of which half will be achieved only with batteries and will be presented later this year, to be produced by GM in 2022.
In addition, the truck will have a continuous power of 455 horsepower, with the possibility of reaching a maximum of 906 horsepower thanks to its 120 kilowatt (kW) fuel cell and its 160 kWh lithium-ion battery.
Source: doblellave
