GM just did 34,000 years of battery testing in less than a month. Here’s how

Developing new EV battery technology takes years of research. General Motors, for example, says it’s put a decade of effort into lithium manganese-rich, or LMR, batteries, which aren’t yet in any of their vehicles on the road. But recently, the automaker says it made a big leap in that work. Using computer modeling, GM was able to virtually test more than 300,000 LMR battery pack configurations, advancing from first concept to formal approval in under a month. That represents m...