General Motors, via its GM Defense subsidiary, will build a battery pack prototype for the Department of Defense to check and analyze. The company’s Defense Innovation Unit is searching for a scalable design that can be utilized in electrified variations of tactical army autos.

The battery pack shall be primarily based on GM’s Ultium platform, which it is utilizing to energy its personal electrical autos. Due to the kind of battery cells it employs, Ultium is billed as a modular and scalable system that may be tailored to completely different wants, so it might simply match the invoice for the army.

GM mentioned the army needs a light- to heavy-duty EV to be used in garrison and operational environments with the intention to scale back fossil gas use. As a outcome, that ought to scale back the army’s carbon emissions.

This is not the primary partnership that GM Defense has cast with the army. In July, the corporate secured a take care of the US Army to supply an electrical Hummer for testing. Last 12 months, GM Defense president Steve duMont mentioned the corporate would construct an electrical army automobile prototype primarily based on the Hummer EV.