Electricity demand from AI data centers is pushing everyone — including automakers like GM and Ford — into the energy storage business.

The carmaker scaled back electric vehicle plans, but is going all in on advanced batteries, including a new sodium-ion chemistry designed for large-scale power storage.

GM partnered with Peak Energy on sodium-ion batteries and expanded its Redwood Materials deal to supply energy storage for data centres and the grid.

As AI data centers strain the grid, GM wants to turn its EVs and batteries into a solution. Ford has a simpler plan—and the two Detroit rivals are betting on very different…

GM is developing an entirely new sodium-ion battery chemistry for use in everything from data centers to its own factories.

As AI data centers strain the grid, GM wants to turn its EVs and batteries into a solution. Ford has a simpler plan—and the two Detroit rivals are betting on very different…

GM is expanding efforts to capitalize on the expected growth of energy storage and data centers and the development of next-generation sodium-ion batteries.

The automaker is making a big bet on sodium-ion batteries — technology ideal for storage connected to utility grids and data centers.

For a year, General Motors has been talking up plans to commercialize a next-generation manganese-based battery that would help it bypass China’s dominance of the electric vehicle…

Electricity demand from AI data centers is pushing everyone — including automakers like GM and Ford — into the energy storage business.

Detroit automaker partners with Peak Energy to try a saltier route to energy storage

Electricity demand from AI data centers is pushing everyone — including automakers like GM and Ford — into the energy storage business.

CATL, GM, and other major battery makers are pivoting from EVs to grid-scale energy storage, a shift that could raise EV prices and reshape global energy markets.