GM FastLane:Putting the ?Flex? in E-Flex

[Bruce Nunnally]

By Larry Burns

GM VP-Research and Development and Strategic Planning

At the Shanghai Motor Show today, GM unveiled the next iteration of our E-Flex electric architecture, this one configured with a hydrogen fuel cell system.

This is the same architecture that we debuted in the Chevrolet Volt electrically driven vehicle at the Detroit show in January. While that vehicle was battery-powered and fitted with a small biofuel engine powering a generator to charge the batteries, what we showed today features our fifth-generation hydrogen fuel cell system that, together with a lithium-ion battery, results in a range of about 300 miles. And that?s 300 miles of completely petroleum-free and emissions-free driving.

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