The Army’s 6T Lithium-Ion battery will eventually be added to the JLTV, as well as the Stryker and Mobile Protected Firepower. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Zachary Zephir)
WASHINGTON: The US Army’s ground vehicle research lab is working on a collection of new batteries meant to propel the service toward hybrid and, eventually, fully-electric vehicles — ones that will give soldiers more operational flexibility in the field and could eventually power weapons systems.
In a recent interview with Breaking Defense, a lab official described how the service is in the early stages of a multi-decade journey to add hybrid and fully-electric vehicles into its fleet, in part to reduce its climate impact, but also because of electric power’s operational impact. The service’s recent climate strategy laid out plans to hybridize the service’s tactical fleet by 2035, with fully…
Army ground vehicle lab researches different batteries in quest for electrified fleet
