SAN FRANCISCO, June 10 : General Motors may scrap plans to use a lower-cost, iron-based battery chemistry that many automakers are using to cut electric-vehicle costs, GM's head of battery technology said. The Detroit automaker had said it planned to develop lithium-iron phosphate, or LFP, batteries for use

After LFP and LMR, the automaker is betting on yet another battery chemistry type.

General Motors (GM) has partnered with sodium-ion battery storage startup Peak Energy to target the grid-scale energy storage market.